MSAN 622 Data Visualization

I will be speaking at the Big Data Visualisation - South Bay meetup on Tuesday, May 13, 2014. My talk will be:

How Good People Make Bad Graphs: Unintentional Fibbing with Visualization

Reasonable goals can often result in incredibly misleading visualizations. This talk will show several examples illustrating how easy (and how dangerous) it is to lie with data visualization, and discuss some of the goals that may have led to that result. Then, we will explore how to rework those visualizations to still achieve those goals without distorting our perception of the data.

I will post slides here after the meetup.

I will hold bonus office hours this week on Tuesday 05/06 and Thursday 05/08 after class in the 5th floor lobby to help with any remaining bugs you have in your final projects. Also, please post on Piazza for help instead of sending me email. (This actually has a better chance of getting a response from me, since my email is flooded.)

The IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST) hosts a yearly visualization challenge. The challenges are open to participation by individuals and teams in industry, government, and academia.

All participants are invited to submit a two-page summary of their entry for inclusion in the IEEE VIS 2014 electronic conference proceedings, and attend the VAST Challenge 2014 Workshop, to be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2014 in Paris, France.

There are 3 mini challenges and 1 grand challenge. The data involved includes text (including streaming), network, geospatial, temporal, and transaction data. Visit http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2014 for more details.

You can find details about your final presentation, including the randomly generated presentation order, on the Instructure Canvas website.

Everyone will have 7 minutes total to present, including setup and questions. You will need to be prepared and practiced to give a strong short presentation!

The Data Visualization Speaker Series presents:

Reza Ali
Designing Visualizations and Interfaces with Code

Monday, April 28, 2014
6:30pm to 9:00pm
McLaren, Room 250

Reza's talk will explore the process of designing and implementing interfaces and generative visualizations. He will showcase his most recent works and address the aesthetic considerations and challenges involved in creating each piece.

Schedule

Bio: Reza is a computational designer and creative engineer. He uses code to express himself, and creates tools and libraries to help others create. He is the author of ofxUI, one of the most popular add-ons for openFrameworks (an arts-engineering toolkit). Though his works is highly visual, he is interested in the ideas and implications of his tools, works, and methodology. As an artist and engineer he is deeply interested in the feedback cycle that occurs when customs tools are written to accomplish an artwork, and how those tools can enable artworks to go beyond what the artist had originally envisioned. Reza is excited to find those happy accidents, beautiful moments of interaction and magic that comes with making something novel with technology. He hopes to change the world by making a difference in how people use technology, design products and experience new media art and entertainment.