Data visualisation applications in storytelling, covid responses, and genomics

This meetup invites speakers from Northern Visualization and Visual Analytics (NoVA, https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nova/) at Newcastle University, to share their latest work in the field of data visualization. Each talk will last 10 minutes and be followed by a 5-min discussion.

TALK 1:
Creating Engaging Data Stories with Animated Data Visualisations
Xinhuan Shu, Lecturer

Engagement plays a vital role in effective visual communication by promoting understanding, connection, and feedback. Engaging people in interacting with data can be challenging due to the intangible and complex properties of data. In this talk, I’ll introduce our recent work on exploring effective data visualisation designs by leveraging animations and metaphors, to engage people in understanding and communicating with data.

TALK 2:
New Results in Network Visualisation with an Application to the COVID-19 Response
Daniel Archambault, Professor

This talk describes some new results in network visualisation that were undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they apply the response. These methods and others proved invaluable to a visualisation response to COVID-19 that included varied audiences from the Welsh Government to school children.

TALK 3:
Visualization to support studies of microbial populations
Sara Johansson Fernstad, Senior Lecturer

Studies of genome-sequenced data are increasingly common in many domains. Technological advances enable the detection of hundreds of thousands of biological entities in samples, resulting in extremely high-dimensional data. To enable exploration and understanding of such data, efficient visual analysis approaches are needed that take domain and data specific requirements into account. In this talk, I will present some of our research on visualization approaches to support the exploration of microbial populations across several application areas.

TALK 4:
Visualisation on immersive analytics, human factors, and tangible interaction
Alma Cantu, Lecturer

Her research focuses on improving our understanding of perception mechanisms to enhance data visualisation and the representation of complex data and tasks. She has worked on immersive analytics, heterogeneous data, human factors, and tangible interaction. This talk describes some of her latest work.

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The Edinburgh DataVis Meetup is an informal community event open to all, that has been bringing together practitioners, designers, academics, and the just plain curious in this highly active field since 2018.
This is a joint event with Newcastle University, and a hybrid event. Doors open at 1800; talks start at 1815. Non-alcoholic refreshments are provided.

Zoom Link:
https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85829662822
Meeting ID: 858 2966 2822
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