The Beautiful Science of Data Visualization; Jeff Pettiross, BayCHI Program
Channel: BayCHI, San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
Date: 30/03/2023

August 11, 2015
https://baychi.org/calendar/20150811

Original Announcement

Seeing and understanding data is not just about creating a collection of queries, dashboards, and workbooks—it's about amplifying human potential.

Jeff will discuss how visual and cognitive science explain what makes good data visualization so deeply satisfying, and why many of these lessons apply to software design in general. Why does a collection of bars, lines, colors, and boxes become surprisingly powerful and meaningful? How does fluid interaction multiply our intelligence? Thirty years of research into the beautiful science of data viz explain why "big data" may be a faddish catchphrase, but interacting with data will be an integral part of computer-human interaction for decades to come.

Jeff Pettiross (@pettiross) is senior UX manager for Tableau Software. He has been dreaming about information design and user experience since he was a kid, spending hours sketching out games he would write on his TRS-80. Since then, he has spent the last 25 years designing software and information visualizations in diverse fields including data analysis and visualization, healthcare, project management, desktop software, and engineering. At Tableau, he races to keep up with the great ideas about flow generated by his team and the rest of Tableau.