Department of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science Join Us Department of Computer Science People Department of Computer Science Research Department of Computer Science Academics Department of Computer Science CS Job Board Department of Computer Science About CS Rice Department of Computer Science Events Department of Computer Science CS Home

Upcoming Events

Colloquium
Computer Science

Distinguished Lecture: Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery - Ben Shneiderman

by Ben Shneiderman
Professor, CS, ISR, UMIACS; Founding Director HCIL
from University of Maryland
when Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
where 1070 Duncan Hall 
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston, Texas, USA
abstract Interactive information visualization tools provide researchers with remarkable capabilities to support discovery. By combining powerful data mining methods with user-controlled interfaces, users are beginning to benefit from these potent telescopes for high-dimensional data. They can begin with an overview, zoom in on areas of interest, filter out unwanted items, and then click for details-on-demand. With careful design and efficient algorithms, the dynamic queries approach to data exploration can provide 100msec updates even for million-record databases.

This talk will start by reviewing the growing commercial success stories such as www.spotfire.com, www.smartmoney.com/marketmap and www.hivegroup.com. Then it will cover recent research progress for visual exploration of large time series data applied to financial, medical, and genomic data (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher ).

These strategies of unifying statistics with visualization are applied to electronic health records (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines2) and social network data (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/socialaction and www.codeplex.com/nodexl).

Demonstrations will be shown.

speaker bio Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of Leonardos Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies (MIT Press, 2002) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction: Fifth Edition Addison-Wesley, 2009).






© Copyright 2009  Rice University  
Mailing Address: PO Box 1892, MS-132, Houston TX 77251-1892
Physical Address: 3122 Duncan Hall, 6100 Main Street, Houston TX 77005


Rice University Computer Science