Comp 150CC Foundations in Scientific Visualization, Guest Lecture: Many Eyes

July 17, 2008

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Halligan 111B

Speaker: Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda B. Viégas, Visual Communication Lab, IBM

Host: Michael Halle

Abstract

COMP0150CC Foundations in Scientific Visualization Guest Lecture

Collaborative and On-line Information Visualization Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda B. Viégas Visual Communication Lab IBM

Thursday, July 17th, 2008 6-7pm Halligan 111B

Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas from IBM Cambridge are two of the creators of Many Eyes ( http://many-eyes.com ), an online community for visualizing data and exchanging ideas. As they describe it:

"Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to democratize visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis."

In this lecture, they will discuss their previous and current work in information visualization, including Many Eyes. Martin and Fernanda have worked on a large number of critically-acclaimed visualization projects, and both are insightful and entertaining speakers.

See more information about Many Eyes, and read Martin and Fernanda's biographies, at the following URL:

http://tinyurl.com/about-manyeyes-html

Interested students, faculty and staff are invited to attend.