Hello folks,


Anamaria Crisan from UBC will be visiting on Tuesday next week, July 10th. She will be giving a talk at 1PM (title/abstract below) at, and is available for demos before and after. Send me an email by Thursday EOD (July 5) if you would like to sign up for a demo slot.


Cheers,
Nicole

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Title: Establishing a visualization design space - A case study in infectious disease genomic epidemiology

Talk Abstract:
Data visualization is an important tool for exploring and communicating findings from genomic and health datasets. Yet, without a systematic way of understanding the design space of data visualizations, researchers do not have a clear sense of what kind of visualizations are possible, or how to distinguish between good and bad options. We have devised an approach using both literature mining and human-in-the-loop analysis to construct a visualization design space from corpus of scientific research papers. We ascertain why and what visualizations were created, and how they are constructed. We applied our approach to derive a Genomic Epidemiology Visualization Typology (GEViT) and operationalized our results to produce an explorable gallery of the visualization design space containing hundreds of categorized visualizations. We are the first to take such a systematic approach to visualization analysis, which can be applied by future visualization tool developers to areas that extend beyond genomic epidemiology.

Bio:
Ana Crisan is a current PhD candidate in computer science at UBC studying how heterogenous types of public health data can be integrated and visualized. She is a CIHR Vanier Scholar and is jointly supervised by Dr. Tamara Munzner (Computer Science) and Dr. Jennifer Gardy (School of Population and Public Health). Prior to her PhD studies, Ana worked with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control supporting research in genomic epidemiology, and had also previously worked on prostate cancer biomarker development with a Vancouver based start-up. A summary of her present and past work can be found on her website: www.cs.ubc.ca/~acrisan.