Visual Analytics Award

Jo Wood has won an award for Outstanding Presentation of Patterns in Context in the VAST Challenge 2016 - Mini Challenge 2.

Jo developed visual analytics methods to show patterns in a steady stream of simulated operations data. These include smart building sensor data and locations recorded by 'prox cards' that monitor the movement of staff members in a 3-storey building. The analysis is intended to identify security issues and safeguard employees and demonstrates the kind of interactive designs or analysis that we produce at the giCentre.

Click to see the Visual Analytics approach described in a short video ...

Jo's specific approach is explained in a short video and his results will be presented, and award  received, at the IEEE VIS conference in Baltimore in October 2016.

Data Driven Storytelling

Jo Wood and Jason Dykes attended Dagstuhl 16061 on Data Driven Storytelling.

The meeting was coordinated by Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary, CA), Nick Diakopoulos (University of Maryland, US), Nathalie Henry Riche (Microsoft Research, US) and Christophe Hurter (ENAC, FR) - all on the front row. It brought together key researchers in visualization and journalism from academic and industry.

Jo presented his work on the One Year Time Trial including his graphic depiction of Steve Abrahams' year of day and night riding.

Jason presented some ideas on self-expanatory exploratory interfaces, though he was better at producing examples of bad cases of various forms than good ones.

Participants in the Data Driven Storytelling workshop, Dagstuhl February 2016. 

IEEEVIS - Research, Recognition, Exhibition

Jo Wood and Sarah Goodwin presented giCentre work in lavish surroundings at IEEE VIS 2015, held in the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois.

Visualizing Personal Progress in Participatory Sports Cycling Events - Wood (2015)

Jason Dykes was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding performance as Conference Chair at IEEE VIS 2014 at the conference banquet.

Jo Wood's We Become the City  was showcased at 'Data Improvisations' an exhibition of innovative work exploring intersections between art and visualization. The exhibition took place at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Data Improvisations

IEEE Information Visualization - Posters

There will be five giCentre posters at IEEE InfoVis this year.

Work that will be presented at the meeting in Chicago, Illinois includes visualization to ...

• support crime analysis - http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12331
• explore temporal data - http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12332
• model survey response rates - http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12333
• show space, time and attribute concurrently - http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12334
• pick stocks - http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12335

Roger, Rafael, Kaisa and Sergi will be at the posters event on Weds October 28th, hoping to discuss their work.

Posters, abstracts and short movies are available through City's Open Access repository.

Seminar on Graphical Statistics - Prof. Antony Unwin

Prof. Antony Unwin of Universität Augsburg will be showing us why interactive graphical data analysis is important, and how it can be used with modelling to clean and explore data, detect trends, patterns and clusters and present results.

Graphical Statistics: Now you see it

Weds 14th October 12:30 - A130 

The seminar will uses datasets on movies and air crashes to illustrate three main ideas:

1.  Graphical analysis is valuable -- and more difficult than it looks;
2.  Many graphics are better than one -- however optimal the one may be;
3.  Graphics and modelling complement each other well -- use them both.

Antony's group has pioneered the development of graphical methods in statistics and produced a whole host of innovative and elegant techniques for graphical data analysis. These are implemented in elegant software such as Mondrian, Manet and Gaugin.

Antony has just published Graphical Statistics with R.

Wouter Meulemans joins giCentre

Dr Wouter Meulemans has been awarded a prestigious Marie-Curie Fellowship. He will spend his time here, working with giCentre on solving some of the most interesting computational geometry problems in cartography and visualisation. He was previously in The Netherlands and holds a BSc, MSc and PhD from TU Eindhoven and we are looking forward to working together him, applying his respective expertise in algorithms & computational geometry with giCentre expertise in cartographic visualisation.