Data Visualization Group

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Financial Visual Analytics 3D Interaction Knowledge Visualization	Stereoscopic Display Weather Visualization Information Visualization	Geospatial Navigation and Visualization Genomic Visual Analysis Global Terrorism Visual Analytics


	VisWeek 2008 The DVG had a strong showing at this year's IEEE VisWeek. We had an InfoVis paper led by Tom on Probe-based Vis, two VAST papers led by Dong/Wenwen and Tera on capturing user interactions and cognitive model respectively, two papers in the Knowledge-Assisted Workshop led by Xiaoyu and Dong on ontology-based visualization and definition of knowledge visualization respectively. Lastly, a poster by Alex that won the best poster award in VAST. Congrats everyone! (October 26, 2008)


	EuroVis Papers Accepted Two papers have been accepted by Eurovis 2008. Starting this year, EuroVis papers will also appear in the journal of Computer Graphics Forum. The two papers are Visual Analysis of Urban Change and Investigative Visual Analysis of Global Terrorism Database led by Tom, and Xiaoyu respectively. Co-authors for Tom's paper include Remco, Zach, and Bill; and co-authors for Xiaoyu's paper include Erin Miller and Kathie Smarick of the START Center at University of Maryland, Bill, and Remco. (February 20, 2008)


	IVS Paper Accepted The journal version of the Wirevis paper presented at IEEE VAST 07 has been accepted to appear in the Journal of Information Visualization (IVS). The journal version extends upon the conference paper and includes details and statistics of connecting Wirevis to a database. This paper is a large production that invovles 7 authors from UNC Charlotte and 3 from Bank of America. (January 15, 2008)


	Internship at Microsoft Research Xiaoyu has been accepted to work at Microsoft Research as an intern for 3 months in the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group starting on January 15th. He will be working with Danyel Fisher on various visual analytics projects. Congrats on the acceptance, and good luck at Microsoft. Remember, just "Get It Done!" (January 8, 2008)


	CG&A Paper Accepted Our paper on Leigible Urban Model Simplification has been accepted to the journal of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) May/June 2008 issue on Procedural Methods for Urban Modeling. Although it was presented at both SIGGRAPH 06 as a technical sketch and again at Google as a tech talk, it has not been formally published until now. This paper is lead by Remco with help from Tom, Zach, and Bill from the DVG, and Caroline Ziemkiewicz (UNCC) and Nancy Pollard (CMU). (December 31, 2007)

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The Data Visualization Group studies the interactive display and analysis of data. Often we are concerned with real-time visualization of data from any source. Thus our purview is information (and how it can be transformed into knowledge and understanding), scientific or engineering visualization, and closely related problems such as computational steering or multivariate analysis.

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