Data Visualization: What's Up?
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 11:00am - 11:50am
ALS 4001
Dr. Robert S. Laramee
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
Swansea University
Speaker Biography:
Robert S. Laramee received a bachelors degree in physics, cum
laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (ZooMass) in 1997.
In 2000, he received a masters degree in computer science from the
University of New Hampshire, Durham. He was awarded a PhD from the
Vienna University of Technology (Gruess Gott TUWien), Austria at the
Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms in 2005. From 2001 to
2006 he was a researcher at the VRVis Research Center (www.vrvis.at)
and a software engineer at AVL (www.avl.com) in the department of
Advanced Simulation Technologies. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer at
the Swansea University (Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe), Wales in the
Department of Computer Science (Adran Gwyddor Cyfrifiadur). His
research interests are in the areas of data visualization, computer
graphics, and human-computer interaction. He has published more than
80 peer-reviewed papers in scientific conferences and journals.
For more information, please visit:
http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csbob/
Abstract:
With the advancement of data storage technologies and the ever-
decreasing costs of hardware, our ability to store data is unprecedented.
However, a large gap remains between our ability to collect and store
data and our ability to derive knowledge from it. Data visualization
exploits our most powerful sense, vision, in order to derive knowledge
and gain insight into large, multi-variate data sets that describe
complicated and often time-dependent events. This talk presents a
selection of unique applications in the area of data visualization,
showcasing some of visualizations strengths, weaknesses, and, goals.
We describe inter-disciplinary projects based on flow, foam, text,
and animal tracking, where visualization is used to address fundamental
questions-the answers of which we hope to discover in various large,
complex, and time-dependent phenomena.
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