use tab and shift-tab to navigate once expanded

Colloquium April 08, 2022: Jordan Crouser, Smith

Friday, April 08 @ 2:35pm

Wege Hall – TCL 123

Perception and Context in Data Visualization

Visual analytics is the science of combining interactive visual interfaces and information visualization techniques with automatic algorithms to support analytical reasoning through human-computer interaction. People use visual analytics tools and techniques to synthesize information and derive insight from massive, dynamic, ambiguous, and often conflicting data… and we exploit all kinds of perceptual tricks to do it! In this talk, we’ll explore concepts in decision-making, human perception, and color theory as they apply to data-driven communication. Whether you’re an aspiring data scientist or you’re just curious about the mechanics of how data visualization works under the hood, stop by and take your preattentive processing for a spin.
Photo credit: Jim Gipe / Pivot Media

R. Jordan Crouser is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Smith College. He’s also a dad, a visual analytics researcher, and a semi-professional data wrangler. His research program investigates the complementary nature of human and machine computation as used in visual analytics and other human-machine collaborative systems. These systems make use of the human visual system, as well as our capacity to understand and reason about complex data. He has published his technical contributions in the areas of visualization theory, human-computer interaction, educational technology, visual analytics systems and human computation. Prior to returning to SLAC-ademia, Crouser spent two years doing research and building analytical tools at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.