Visualizing a World in Motion: Designing for Real-Time Data - FernandaViégas and Martin Wattenberg
Channel: UCIBrenICS
Date: 30/04/2016

FernandaViégas,
Computational Designer, Google
Martin Wattenberg, 
Computer Science, Artist, Google

Friday,  April 29, 2016

Title: Visualizing a World in Motion:  Designing for Real-Time Data

ABSTRACT:
Change is the only constant, for data as well as the world. We’ll discuss a series of visualizations that show the world in motion, over time scales ranging from seasons to days to minutes. We’ll also talk about ways to make visualization fast–and even automatic–so that as new data comes in it’s easy for anyone, even laypeople, to gain insight. Finally, we’ll talk about a new theme in our work, understanding machine intelligence, and how this challenge, too, touches on visualizing live data.

BIO:
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are the leaders of Google’s “Big Picture” data visualization research group. They are well known for their contributions to social and collaborative visualization, and the systems they’ve created are used daily by millions of people. Before joining Google, they founded Flowing Media, Inc., a visualization studio and led IBM’s Visual Communication Lab. Viégas has been named by multiple publications as one of the most influential women in technology. Her visualizations of email and online conversations led the way for new social media interfaces. Wattenberg, as a director of R&D at Dow Jones, created some of the earliest visualizations for digital journalism. Their visualization-based artwork has been exhibited worldwide, and is part of the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York.