I came across this intereseting essay from Moritz Stefaner in which he outlines his perspectve on the recent focus on “storytelling” within the data visualization community. I largely agree with his thesis, especially his point about viewing a visualization designer …
I’m excited to announced that I’ll be co-editing a special issue of JAMIA (the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association) that is focused on Visual Analytics in Healthcare. Papers are due May 1 and we hope to have the …
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This morning I came across this TED talk by Peter Donnelly. It was was originally posted way back in 2006, so this isn’t something new. However, it is worth a listen for anyone thinking about data science and its applications. …
Are P values the “gold standard” for statistically significant findings? From an article today that appeared today in Nature: “The irony is that when UK statistician Ronald Fisher introduced the P value in the 1920s, he did not mean it …
We generally tend to think of racial identifiers as static labels, an attribute we are born with like gender. I am—and have always been—a white male. Moreover, we know that cultural stereotypes around race have a strong influence on how …
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a new course at SILS in the Fall 2014 semester: INLS 690 Visual Analytics. The class will cover fundamental concepts and provide lots of opportunities for students to “get their hands dirty” …
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A new paper, which I co-wrote with my colleagues Fei Wang and Adam Perer (both of IBM Research) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. The paper is titled “A Methodology for Interactive Mining and Visual …
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A new paper, which I co-wrote with my colleagues Zhiyuan Zhang (Stony Brook) and Adam Perer (IBM Research) has been accepted for publication in the journal Information Visualization. The paper, titled Iterative Cohort Analysis and Exploration, is a more detailed …
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As the fall semester comes to a close, SILS has officially announced my arrival with a brief letter posted to the school’s website yesterday afternoon. As the announcement mentions, I’ll be on campus for the spring semester and will be …
The 4th Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) Workshop was held this weekend in Washington, DC. This year’s event, which I co-chaired with Dr. Jesus Caban (NICoE, Walter Reed Medical Center), was held in conjunction with AMIA’s 2013 Annual Symposium. Over …
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