Who: Robert Kosara, Tableau Research

When: June 1, 2015, 10.30am

Where: Währinger Straße 29, 1090 Wien, Hörsaal 2

Title: Presentation-Only Visualization Techniques

Abstract:

Research in visualization is focused on exploration and analysis
of data, and has so far neglected the crucial final step: presentation.
That step is key however for analysis results to make an impact in actual
decisions being made and actions being taken. In this talk, I will make
the case for a class of visualization techniques that I call
presentation-only. These techniques follow a slightly different set of
rules than traditional techniques, and I will argue that we need to
reconsider the way we design and evaluate them.

short CV:

Robert Kosara is a research scientist at Tableau Software. His focus is on
the communication of data through visualization and visual storytelling.
Robert is also working on furthering our understanding of visual
perception and cognition, so we can make data easier to understand and
develop tools to communicate it more effectively.

Before joining Tableau in 2012, Robert was Associate Professor of Computer
Science at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Robert received
his M.Sc. and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science from Vienna University of
Technology (Austria). In his copious spare time, Robert likes to run long
distances and writing articles for his website,
eagereyes.org<https://eagereyes.org/>.