In some of my recent research work, I’ve been thinkg about ways to expand the typical exploratory visualization process to incorporate more rigorous statistical assessments of the underlying samples being visualized. The power of visualization is that it can help people …
VAHC 2015 will return to IEEE VIS, the conference that hosted the very first workshop back in 2010. The workshop will take place in late October in Chicago, Illinois. The 6th Annual VAHC marks the start of what we hope …
My team at UNC has won a T32 grant from NIH in the first round of BD2K Training Grant Award program. The five year grant, with Michael Kosorok and Gregory Forest as PIs, will fund predoctoral students focusing on biomedical Big Data challenges. …
My latest article, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE TVCG), has been published online and is available via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The paper was written with collaborators Nan Cao (IBM Research) and Yu-Ru Lin (Pittsburgh) and describes the …
I’ve been awarded an Amazon AWS Education and Research Grant to support my visual analytics research. The grant provides credits for AWS services that will allow my lab to test algorithms at scale using EC2’s on-demand computing and the S3 storage service. …
In the latest issue of Science (April 10, 2015; Vol 348 Issue 6231), my colleague Anne-Marie Meyer and I write about issues of data privacy in the “Big Data” era and the impact of privacy policy on science. In particular, …
I’ve co-authored a chapter titled Visual Analytics in Healthcare in a new book that is now available for pre-order from CRC Press. The book, Healthcare Data Analytics, is edited by Chandan Reddy and Charu Aggarwal. It explores a variety of …
I’m excited to share the news that the JAMIA Special Issue on Visual Analytics in Healthcare has been published. The entire issue–Volume 22, Issue 2, 01 March 2014–is available online via JAMIA’s publisher, Oxford University Press. I served as guest editor, along with my friend …
JAMIA Special Issue on Visual Analytics in Healthcare Read More »
Aaron Reiss published a really interesting article comparing the design of metro ticket machines used by the MTA (in New York) and BART (in the Bay Area). The MTA ticket machines are an icon of design and, for me, bring …
I’m happy to annouce that I’ve been recognized as a Data Fellow for 2015 by the National Consortium for Data Science. The honor comes with a $50,000 award to pursue my research in the coming year. The NCDS made the announcement last week …
