Dina Research School

Workshop: Visualization and Data Mining

Tune Landboskole, 6-7 December 2001

Invitation

An essential part of scientific work nowadays consists of getting insight from either many data collected from experiments or computations involving long sequences of numbers. The numbers will often be available in various data-formats and specially designed tools are necessary in order to get information from the numbers.

The Dina Research School will in this workshop give an introduction to some of the popular techniques that are available to the scientists for obtaining a high level of insight from very large numbers of data.

Introduction

Visualization is part of everyday life, we look at weather maps on TV and are entertained by the graphics in computer games, examples are plenty. In science visualization is however relatively new. The technology has brougt new developments that in a very short time has made it everyday life for the scientist to give his results in the form of pictures and graphs.

Pictures bring insight into the nature of processes and the changes of states in a dynamical system may be animated to identify new relationships between system component. The old fashioned tables of endless numbers is outlived in todays scientific world.

This workshop is intended to give a state-of-the-art introduction to Visualization and Data Mining, incorporating a short hands-on experience with modern tools from the industry.

Target group

The target group of the workshop is

• PhD students from the biological sciences
• PhD students with a background in computer science or mathematics/statistics

We are looking forward to meeting you at Tune Landboskole!

Author: phd@dina.kvl.dk. Updated: 05 november 2001