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JSALT 2015 -- Week 4 Plenary
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Friday, July 31:
- 10-11am Plenary seminar [EEB 105]
- 11:30am-1pm Team reports & lunch with speaker [EEB 303]
Visualization and Interactive Data Analysis
Jeffrey Heer
Data analysis is a complex process with frequent shifts among data formats and models, and among textual and graphical media. We are investigating how to better support the lifecycle of analysis by identifying critical bottlenecks and developing new methods at the intersection of data visualization, machine learning, and computer systems. Can we empower users to transform and clean data without programming? How can we support more expressive and effective visualization tools? How might we enable domain experts to guide machine learning methods to produce effective models? This talk will present selected projects that attempt to address these challenges and introduce new tools for interactive visual analysis.
Biography
Jeffrey Heer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the Interactive Data Lab and conducts research on data visualization, human-computer interaction and social computing. The visualization tools developed by his lab (D3.js, Vega, Protovis, Prefuse) are used by researchers, companies and thousands of data enthusiasts around the world. His group's research papers have received awards at the premier venues in Human-Computer Interaction (ACM CHI, UIST, CSCW) and Information Visualization (IEEE InfoVis, VAST, EuroVis). Other awards include MIT Technology Review's TR35 (2009), a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (2012), and a Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator award (2014). Jeff holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, whom he then betrayed by joining the Stanford faculty (2009-2013). Jeff is also a co-founder of Trifacta, a provider of interactive tools for scalable data transformation.
