Image by @arnicas for #OpenVisConf From the OpenVisConf website: Robert Kosara is Research Scientist at Tableau Research. Before he joined Tableau in 2012, he was a professor of computer science at UNC Charlotte. Robert has created visualization techniques like Parallel Sets and performed research into the perceptual and cognitive basics […]
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From the OpenVisConf website: Jeffrey Heer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the Interactive Data Lab and conducts research on data visualization, human-computer interaction and social computing. The visualization tools developed by his lab (D3.js, Vega, Protovis, Prefuse) […]
Carl DiSalvo (@cdisalvo) an Associate Professor in the Digital Media Program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At Georgia Tech he established The Public Design Workshop, a design research studio that explores socially-engaged design practices and civic media. This talk is co-sponsored by the […]
I’m at the 2014 Computation + Journalism symposium at Columbia University. Here’s a quick intro to what we are talking about: “Data and computation drive our world, often without any kind of critical assessment or accountability. Journalism is adapting responsibly—finding and creating new kinds of stories that respond directly to […]
While personalization is useful in moderation, creators that employ excessive personalization might consider a warning message like the above. This blog post is part of my epic (only to me) quest to write a thesis about serendipity and online information discovery. Here I detail the strategies that creators are using […]