About
We are a team of visualization researchers at the University of Utah. Our interests include the process of designing and developing visualizations, visualization for biology, visualization frameworks, and, more generally, visualization of big, heterogeneous, and complex datasets.
VDL is part of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the School of Computing.
News
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19 Oct 2019VDL at IEEE VIS!
VDL members are contributing two papers, on short paper, in various ways to VIS in Vancouver this year:
- Miriah Meyer will present her paper on criteria for rigor in visualization design study.
- Alex Bigelow will present his paper on network wrangling with Origraph
- Carolina Nobre and Alex Lex will teach a tutorial on multivariate network visualization.
- Nina McCurdy will present her short paper on analyzing real and simulated galaxy observations.
- Dylan Wootton will present his poster on visualizing arctic sea ice, which also won an honorable mention.
- Alex Lex will give a short presentation on Kiran Ghadave’s set visualization poster in the SetVA workshop and also present that poster in the poster session.
- Haihan Lin will present her poster on clipped graphs.
- Ilkin Safarli will present his poster on visualizing multivariate networks with matrices and also give a short talk in the workshop on layered networks.
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13 Sep 2019Nina McCurdy Successfully Defends Dissertation
Nina McCurdy successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Action Design Research for Applied Visualization Design”. Congratulations also to Miriah Meyer for her great mentorship. Nina will join NASA’s Ames Research Center as a staff scientist.
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4 Sep 2019Welcome to new PhD students and Software Engineers, Goodby to Others
We welcome three new PhD students and two software engineers to our Group.
- Derya Akbaba is a new PhD fellowship student joining us after spending a couple of years at Locus Analytics in New York City.
- Max Marno is a new PhD fellowship student who has spent his last two years as a GIS analyst in Breckenridge, CO..
- Cole Polychronis joins us as a PhD fellowship student after graduating from Westminster College.
- Kaleb Bickmore is a new full stack software engineer who will work on health-related projects.
- Jack Wilburn is a new full stack software engineer who will support the NSF MultiNet project.
We’re also saying goodbye to three members: Pascal Goffin has wrapped up his PostDoc. Dylan Wootton graduated this spring and spent the summer working with us on various projects. He will be starting a job with Microsoft in September. Jochen Görtler is returning to his home institution,...
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31 May 2019VDL at EuroVis in Porto
Several VDL members will be at EuroVis in Porto. In addition to the PIs, Carolina Nobre and Samuel Quinan will be attending. Sam will present the full paper on implicit discretization in color maps (rainbows!), and Carolina will present the state of the art report on multivariate network visualization. Please join us for these talks or just say hi if you see us!