NUVis Design Briefs: A Visual Guide to ‘The Big Lebowski’
Join the Northeastern University Visualization Consortium on Thursday, September 20 for the start of a short series of informal sessions centered around the process and practice of visualization: NUVis Design Briefs! Description: Join Steven Braun, Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist in the Northeastern University Libraries Digital Scholarship Group, to hear about Steven’s work on his recent […]
Arvind Satyanarayan – Visualization: A Petri Dish for Intelligence Augmentation
Rather than automating people out of the equation, our current golden age of artificial intelligence offers new opportunities to realize Douglas Engelbart’s 1960s vision of “Augmenting Human Intellect.” To be effective, collaboration between people and machines must share a representation of tasks — one that systems can tractably reason about and that people can easily […]
Geoff Boeing – The Legibility of Urban Spatial Order in Computational Street Network Analysis
Human movement through cities is largely constrained to pre-designed spatial networks that embody values of power, aesthetics, and prevailing technology. The quality of urban spaces – and for whom these spaces perform – rests upon these outcomes of urban design and architecture. Although circulation networks critically underlie city mobility and human dynamics, it can be […]
Arzu Çöltekin – Visualizing geo/spatial phenomena: A spatial cognition perspective
In this talk, I will first outline some of the fundamental principles that cartographers have been using –for hundreds of years– for designing maps and map-like representations of geo/spatial phenomena. Then I will draw links between the cartographic principles and modern visualization practices, taking into account our understanding of perceptual and cognitive processes. Following this, […]