As digital information becomes increasingly cheap and
ubiquitous, how will we keep abreast with the rising tide of
data? Our research group investigates the perceptual,
cognitive, and social factors involved in making sense of
large data collections, and develops novel interactive
systems for visual analysis and communication.
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Our research on the
perception of time-series visualizations
received an ACM CHI 2009 Best Paper Award.
Our work on social data analysis was featured in the January 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM.
I recently presented A Brief History of Data Visualization at the Stanford HCI seminar.
A video
is on the internets, as is an earlier talk on interactive visualization.
O'Reilly's Beautiful Data contains 39 vignettes of data in action, including our work on social analysis of census data. Proceeds go to the Sunlight Foundation and Creative Commons.
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selected projects
Interactive Visualization ToolkitsOver 100,000 downloads!
Software: protovis, flare, prefuse Papers: InfoVis'09, InfoVis'06, CHI'05 Video: DivX AVI (30M), WMV (33M) 
Collaborative VisualizationSocial data analysis using interactive visualizations on the web.
Multi-Scale Banking to 45°Perceptual optimization of the aspectratios of data graphics.
Papers:
InfoVis'06
Animation in Data GraphicsUsing animation to improve perceptionof transitions in data graphics. 
Vizster: Visualizing Social NetworksVisual exploration of networks such as Friendster, Facebook, and MySpace. |