Data Science DC

Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery

April 30, 2012 · 6:30 PM
SRA Touchstone Consulting Group

For our April Meetup, we are very happy to have Prof. Ben Shneiderman from the Department of Computer Science and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, talking about Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery.

6:30pm -- Networking and Refreshments
7:00pm -- Introduction
7:10pm -- Prof. Shneiderman's presentation and Q&A
around 8:30pm -- Adjourn for Data Drinks

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 100msec updates even for million-item visualizations that can represent billion-record databases.

Interactive visualization tools have led to commercial success stories such as Spotfire, Smart Money's Market Map and the Hive Group, as well as research tools such as TimeSearcher, developed at UMD for time series data analysis. The integration of statistics with visualizations has been successfully applied to temporal event sequences such as electronic health records (Lifelines2 and Lifeflow) and social network data (SocialAction and NodeXL).

Bio

Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the co-author with Catherine Plaisant of Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th ed., 2010). 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 (2010). Prof. Shneiderman will be happy to sign copies of this book (available at Amazon) after the presentation.

Note

HCIL's Annual Symposium is May 22nd and 23rd, and may be of interest to many!

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Harlan Harris

Audio is posted in the Files section. I'll find out about slides and video...

0 · May 5, 2012
Justin

Excellent presentation by Professor Shneiderman, great networking with interesting folks

0 · May 1, 2012
Clarence Dillon

Fun and helpful. I certainly learned a thing or two and I left inspired.

0 · May 1, 2012
A Johnson

Excellent presentation!

0 · May 1, 2012
Brock Bose

Good stuff, discussed a lot of interesting techniques, and generated a lot of good discussion.

0 · May 1, 2012
Max

Sorry to blast all, but will the slides be posted? Great presentation!

2 · May 1, 2012
Marshall Presser

Great meetup. Speaker is an expert and gave very good examples of the value of visualization..

0 · May 1, 2012
Saurabh

Excellent presentation. Thank you guys!

0 · May 1, 2012
Greg Linch

Great talk!

0 · May 1, 2012
Steven Jackson

Great presentation, excellent turnout and great networking opportunity. This was my first Meetup and I can definitely say that I will be attending more.

0 · May 1, 2012
Rob Shell

The Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery talk was brilliant. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

0 · April 30, 2012