---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Brendan Meade* &lt;brendanjmeade(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Subject: [Colloquium] CS Colloquium on Monday, Sept. 21 - Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg of Google To: Harvard Computational Science &lt;harvard-scicomp(a)googlegroups.com&gt; This talk is next Monday and it'll be fantastic. I'm on sabbatical at Google and am lucky enough to sit next to Fernanda and Martin everyday...I learn so much about how we can see and learn from data. Brendan *Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg of Google will give a talk entitled “Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative”* *MONDAY, September 21, 2015* *4:00 p.m.* *Maxwell Dworkin G115* Ice cream at 3:30 p.m. – Maxwell Dworkin 2nd floor lounge --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *“Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative”* As data plays an ever larger role in society, there’s a critical need for tools to help people understand and reason about complex information. Our research seeks to make data visualization--originally a tool for experts--accessible to everyone. To succeed as a mass medium, visualization must be simple to use, easy to share, and suited to the kinds of data that people care about. We will discuss these challenges and projects which address them. First, we’ll present work that explores the collaborative dimension of visualization. Second, we’ll consider socially important forms of data such as text and images that don’t fit traditional visualization approaches. We present new techniques to provide insight into media from books to photographs. Finally, a radical level of simplicity in both authoring and consumption is required for visualization to succeed on a massive scale. We’ll illustrate solutions to these challenges with data sets ranging from wind flows to global cyberattacks. This approach to visualization points the way to a future where every citizen can fully participate in a data-driven society. *Host:* Hanspeter Pfister *Speakers: *Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are the leaders of Google's “Big Picture” data visualization research group, which invents new ways for people to understand and explore data. They are well known for their contributions to social and collaborative visualization, and the systems they’ve created are used daily by millions of people. Before joining Google, the two founded Flowing Media, Inc., which focused on media and consumer-oriented projects. Prior to Flowing Media, they led IBM's Visual Communication Lab, where they created the ground-breaking public visualization platform Many Eyes, which introduced visualization to millions of users worldwide. Viégas has been named by multiple publications as one of the most influential women in technology. Her visualizations of email and online conversations led the way for new social media interfaces. Wattenberg, as a director of R&D at Dow Jones, created some of the earliest visualizations for digital journalism. Viégas holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab; Wattenberg has a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. Their academic work has won multiple “best paper” accolades, and they’ve received several top design and technology awards. Their visualization-based artwork has been exhibited worldwide, and is part of the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Harvard Computational Science" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to harvard-scicomp+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','harvard-scicomp%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com');> . To post to this group, send email to harvard-scicomp(a)googlegroups.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','harvard-scicomp@googlegroups.com');>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/harvard-scicomp/0cf5e51f-4f36-4b1e-82db-0… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/harvard-scicomp/0cf5e51f-4f36-4b1e-82db-0e72ee7d5d54%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University | 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu | http://about.me/aspuru