Author: David Gotz
Sch of Inform and Libr Science

A few weeks ago, on October 8, 2014, I spoke at Duke University’s Informatics Research Seminar series.  The talk was hosted by the Duke Center for Health Informatics and was simulcast to collaborating universities including UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, ECU, and NCCU.  An …

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I’m pleased to announce that our paper describing UnTangle has been accepted to the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).   This paper describes a recent project exploring new ways to visualize multi-labeled data with uncertainty.  Click here to learn more.

I’m excited to announce two new papers that have been accepted to appear at a pair of interesting workshops over the next few weeks. First, a paper describing some early work on temporal cluster visualization will be presented at the …

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With a move to a new house and a new class being developed, I’m a bit behind in posting to this blog.  However, I wanted to make sure I eventually posted a link to this article from over the summer in the New …

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I’m excited to share some more information about two different research projects.  First, Progressive Insights is a project where we are exploring how the visualization workflow–and our underlying data analysis methods–can be adjusted to better accomodate long-running and computationally demanding analytics within …

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I’m a co-author on two papers that have been accepted at IEEE VAST 2014, which will take place in Paris in November.  The first paper provides a deeper look at the technical aspects of DecisionFlow, including a number of additional …

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The Visual Analytics in Healthcare Workshop (VAHC) will take place again in 2014.  This will be the 5th annual workshop, and like last year it will be hosted by the AMIA Annual Symposium in Washington, DC. As co-chair of the …

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An intersting article on the New York Times’ new data-based venture The Upshot highlights a study from researchers at USC, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago in which millions of marathon results were gathered together and plotted as a simple …

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This TED talk, by Dan Ariely, is one I first saw a long time ago but happened to stumble across again this morning.  Dan is the author of Predictibly Irrational, which is an easy-to-read book along the same lines as …

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A recent article in the magazine SCIENCE presents an important warning to those who see Big Data as the solution to all problems. The article (“The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis” by Lazer, Kennedy, King, and …

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