InfoVis Group Research

Tamara MunznerDepartment of Computer Science University of British Columbia

Huawei Burnaby8 Feb 2018

www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/talks.html#huawei18 @tamaramunzner

Research agenda: interleaved angles of attack

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problem-driven work

technique-driven work

evaluation

theoretical foundations

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Problem-driven work

• design studies– in collaboration with target users

• real data, real tasks• intensive requirements analysis

– iterative refinement• deploy tools/systems

– typical evaluation: field studies

• my strategy: opportunistic collaboration– many domains– both industrial and academic partners

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Problem-driven: Tech industry

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LiveRAC: systems time-series logs

Peter McLachlanStephen North (AT&T Research)

SessionViewer: web log analysis

Heidi LamDiane Tang (Google)

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https://youtu.be/T4MaTZd56G4

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Problem-driven: Genomics

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Hanspeter Pfister (Harvard)

Miriah Meyer

Aaron BarskyJenn Gardy (UBC Micro)

Robert Kincaid (Agilent)

Cerebralhttps://youtu.be/76HhG1FQngI

https://youtu.be/86p7brwuz2g

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Problem-driven: Genomics

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Variant View

Joel FerstayCydney Nielsen (BC Cancer)

https://youtu.be/AHDnv_qMXxQ

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Ana Crisan

current work: genomic epidemiology

Jenn Gardy (UBC Public Health & BC CDC)

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Zipeng Liu

current work: gene trees(UBC Zoology)

Problem-driven: Automotive, journalism

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RelEx (BMW)

Michael Sedlmair

https://youtu.be/89lsQXc6Ao4

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Jonathan Stray (Assoc Press)

Overviewhttps://vimeo.com/71483614

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Problem-driven: Sustainable buildings, fisheries

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Vismon

Maryam Booshehrian Torsten Moeller (SFU)

Kevin Tate (Pulse/EnerNOC)

Energy Manager

Matt Brehmer

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https://youtu.be/h0kHoS4VYmk

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Problem-driven: Current data science

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Kimberly Dextras-Romagnino

current work: Segmentifier (Mobify)

EMichael Oppermann

current work: Ocupado (Sensible Building Science)

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wifi proxy for real-time building occupancy

integrate visual analytics and predictive ML for facilities management

e-commerce clickstreams

build tools for human-in-the-loop visual data analysis

Technique-driven work

• scalable algorithms & systems– typical evaluation: computational benchmarks

• new layout & interaction techniques– typical evaluation: controlled experiments on human subjects

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Technique-driven: Graph drawing

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Daniel Archambault

TopoLayout SPF Grouse GrouseFlocks TugGraph

David Auber (Bordeaux)

TreeJuxtaposerhttps://youtu.be/GdaPj8a9QEo

https://youtu.be/AWXAe8zvkt8

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Guy Melançon (Bordeaux)

Benjamin Renoust

Detangler https://youtu.be/QOtnHSsUV6k

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Evaluation experiments: Graph drawing

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Stretch and squish navigation

Joanna McGrenereDmitry Nekrasovski Adam Bodnar

Joanna McGrenereJessica Dawson

Search set model of path tracing

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Technique: Dimensionality reduction

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Stephen Ingram

DimStiller

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Evaluation experiments: Dim. reduction

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Michael Sedlmair

Melanie Tory

Points vs landscapes for dimensionally reduced data

Taxonomy of cluster separation factors

Melanie Tory

Guidance on DR & scatterplot choices

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Evaluation in the field: Dim. reduction

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DR in the Wild

Michael Sedlmair Melanie Tory Stephen IngramMatt Brehmer

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Curation & Presentation: Timelines

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Johanna Fulda (Sud. Zeitung)

TimeLineCurator

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Timelines Revisitedtimelinesrevisited.github.io/

Nathalie Henry-Riche (Microsoft)

Bongshin Lee (Microsoft)

Benjamin Bach (Microsoft)

Matt Brehmer

https://vimeo.com/123246662

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Theoretical foundations

Papers Process & Pitfalls

Design Study Methodology

Abstract Tasks

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Michael Sedlmair Miriah Meyer

Matt Brehmer

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Theoretical foundations

Visualization Analysis & Design

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More information

• papers, videos, open source software, talks, courses http://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm

www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/talks.html#huawei18 @tamaramunzner