A reminder of tomorrow's Distinguished Lecture in Computational Science, to be given
by Ben Shneiderman:
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Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
Thursday, Oct. 14, 4:00 pm
Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Ben Shneiderman
Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Founding Director, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
University of Maryland
Abstract
Interactive information visualization tools provide researchers with remarkable
capabilities to support discovery. These telescopes for high-dimensional data combine
powerful statistical methods with user-controlled interfaces. Users can begin with an
overview, zoom in on areas of interest, filter out unwanted items, and then click for
details-on-demand. With careful design and efficient algorithms, the dynamic queries
approach to data exploration can provide 100-millisecond updates even for million-record
databases.
This talk will start by reviewing the growing commercial success stories such as
www.spotfire.com,www.smartmoney.com/marketmap and
www.hivegroup.com. Then it will cover
recent research progress for visual exploration of large time series data applied to
financial, medical, and genomic data (
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher ).
These strategies of unifying statistics with visualization are applied to electronic
health records (
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines2) and social network data
(
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/socialaction and
www.codeplex.com/nodexl). Demonstrations will be
shown.
Note: After the talk, Dr. Shneiderman will be happy to sign copies of his new book,
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL
(
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/product/editors/723354; available online).
About the Speaker
Ben Shneiderman (
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben) is a professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
(
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/) at the University of Maryland. He was elected as a Fellow of
the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997, a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering
in 2010. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Ben is the
co-author with Catherine Plaisant of _Designing the User Interface: Strategies for
Effective Human-Computer Interaction_ (5th ed., 2010)
http://www.awl.com/DTUI/. With Stu
Card and Jock Mackinlay, he co-authored _Readings in Information Visualization: Using
Vision to Think_ (1999). With Ben Bederson he co-authored _The Craft of Information
Visualization_ (2003). His book _Leonardo’s Laptop_ appeared in October 2002 (MIT Press)
and won the IEEE book award for Distinguished Literary Contribution. His latest book, with
Derek Hansen and Marc Smith, is _Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL_, published
in September 2010.
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The Distinguished Lectures in Computational Science are presented by the Harvard School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences through the collaborative effort of the Computer Science
faculty and the Institute for Applied Computational Science
(
http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu). For more information, contact Gioia
Sweetland,gioia(a)seas.harvard.edu. For information on the Computer Science Colloquium
Series, see
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/calendars/computer_science.
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