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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. …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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