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Colloquium
| Category | Lecture |
| Date | Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
| Time | 11:00 am |
| Concludes | 12:15 pm |
| Location | Gould-Simpson 906 |
| Details | Coffee & light refreshments will be provided at 10:45am in the 9th Floor Atrium. Faculty Host: Stephen Kobourov |
| Speaker | John Stasko |
| Title | Professor & Associate Chair |
| Affiliation | School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology |
The Value of Visualization for Exploring and Understanding Data
Investigators have an ever-growing suite of tools available for analyzing and understanding their data. While techniques such as statistical analysis, machine learning, and data mining all have benefits, visualization provides an additional unique set of capabilities. In this talk I identify the particular advantages that visualization brings to data analysis beyond other techniques, and I will describe the situations in which it can be most beneficial. To help support these arguments, I'll present a number of provocative examples from my own work and others'. One particular system will demonstrate how visualization can facilitate exploration and knowledge acquisition from a collection of thousands of narrative text documents.
Biography
John Stasko is a Professor in and the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an internationally recognized and widely published researcher in the area of human-computer interaction, with a specific focus on information visualization and visual analytics. Stasko has been Papers Co-Chair for IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) Conference, the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Conference, and the ACM Software Visualization (SoftVis) Symposium. He has served on numerous journal editorial boards including ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and Information Visualization. In Fall 2013 he served as General Chair of the IEEE VIS meeting in Atlanta. Stasko was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011, and he received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2012.