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Intro

Tamara MunznerDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of British Columbia

Utah Viz Course IntrosMar 1 2021

About me

• technical staff, Geometry Center 1991-1995

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Geometry Center: math vis videos, software

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The Shape of SpaceOutside In

Stuart Levy Mark Phillips Delle Maxwell

Geomview

About me

• technical staff, Geometry Center 1991-1995• PhD @ Stanford w/ Pat Hanrahan, 1995-2000• [DEC/Compaq] Systems Research Center (SRC), 2000-2002• UBC, 2002-now

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A quick taste of my own work!

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technique-driven work

problem-driven work

evaluation

theoretical foundations

Technique-driven: Graph/network drawing

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Daniel Archambault

TopoLayout SPF Grouse GrouseFlocks TugGraph

David Auber (Bordeaux)

https://youtu.be/AWXAe8zvkt8

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Guy Melançon (Bordeaux)

Benjamin Renoust

Detangler

https://youtu.be/QOtnHSsUV6k

Technique-driven: Tree drawing

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Zipeng Liu Shing Hei Zhan

https://youtu.be/2SLcz7KNLJwAggregated Dendrograms

TreeJuxtaposer

https://youtu.be/GdaPj8a9QEo

Evaluation experiments: Graph/tree drawing

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Stretch and squish navigation

Joanna McGrenere

Dmitry Nekrasovski Adam Bodnar

Joanna McGrenereJessica Dawson

Search set model of path tracing

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Technique-driven: Dimensionality reduction

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QSNE

GlimmerGlint

Stephen Ingram

DimStiller

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Evaluation experiments: Dimensionality reduction

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Michael Sedlmair

Melanie Tory

Points vs landscapes for dimensionally reduced data

Taxonomy of cluster separation factors

Melanie Tory

Guidance on DR & scatterplot choices

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Evaluation in the field: Dimensionality reduction

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DR in the Wild

Michael Sedlmair Melanie Tory Stephen IngramMatt Brehmer

MulteeSum, Pathline

Problem-driven: Genomics

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MizBee

Hanspeter Pfister (Harvard)Miriah Meyer

Aaron BarskyJenn Gardy (Microbio)

Robert Kincaid (Agilent)

Cerebral

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https://youtu.be/76HhG1FQngI

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Problem-driven: Genomics, fisheries

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Variant View

Joel FerstayCydney Nielsen (BC Cancer)

Vismon

Maryam BooshehrianTorsten Moeller (SFU)

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Problem-driven: Tech industry

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Peter McLachlanStephen North (AT&T Research)

SessionViewer: web log analysis

Heidi LamDiane Tang (Google)

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https://youtu.be/T4MaTZd56G4

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Problem-driven: Building energy mgmt, journalism

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Kevin Tate

(Pulse/EnerNOC)

Energy Manager

Matt Brehmer

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Jonathan Stray

(Assoc Press)

Overview

https://vimeo.com/71483614

Matt Brehmer Stephen Ingram

Problem-driven: Current data science

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Kimberly Dextras-Romagnino

recent work: Segmentifier (Mobify)

EMichael Oppermann

recent work: Ocupado (Sensible Building Science)

wifi proxy for real-time building occupancy

visual analytics for facilities management

e-commerce clickstreams

build tools for human-in-the-loop visual data analysis

https://youtu.be/TobYDFeISOg https://youtu.be/KcwjVK8eUdw

Curation & Presentation: Timelines

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Johanna Fulda

(Sud. Zeitung)

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Timelines Revisited

timelinesrevisited.github.io/

Nathalie Henry-Riche

Bongshin Lee

(Microsoft)Benjamin Bach

(Microsoft)

Matt Brehmer

TimeLineCurator

https://vimeo.com/123246662

Matt Brehmer

Theoretical foundations: Typologies

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Abstract Tasks

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Matt Brehmer

Anamaria Crisan

Regulatory & Organizational Constraints

GEViT: Genomic Epidemiology Visualization Typology

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Theoretical foundations

Nested Model

Papers Process & Pitfalls

Design Study Methodology

Michael Sedlmair Miriah Meyer

• Visual Encoding Pitfalls

- Unjustified Visual Encoding

- Hammer In Search Of Nail

- 2D Good, 3D Better

- Color Cacophony

- Rainbows Just Like In The Sky

• Strategy Pitfalls

- What I Did Over My Summer

- Least Publishable Unit

- Dense As Plutonium

- Bad Slice and Dice

algorithm

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domain

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Visualization Analysis & Design

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Visualization Analysis and Design.

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