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SUMMARY:Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery (A Few Places No
 w Available!) - Ben Shneiderman\, Professor\, Human-Computer Interaction L
 aboratory\, University of Maryland
DTSTART:20090305T184000Z
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CONTACT:Michele Ide-Smith
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce that *Ben Shneiderman* will be pre
 senting on the subject he is perhaps best known for\, 'Information Visuali
 zation'\, on Thursday 5th March at the fantastic Microsoft Research facili
 ty in Cambridge.\n\nMost people reading this will know Ben Shneiderman. La
 st year he was "recognised as one of the founding fathers of the field of 
 Human-Computer Interaction":http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cf
 m?articleID=1587 with a whole "special edition of the International Journa
 l of Human-Computer Interaction":http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~co
 ntent=g789632490~db=all honouring his contribution to the field. This talk
  is a great opportunity to come along and hear what Ben has to say about I
 nformation Visualization.\n\n*Date:* Thursday 5th March Time: 18.30 for 18
 .45 to 20.00\n\n*Venue:* Microsoft Research\, Cambridge ( "Map & address":
 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/cambridge/visit.aspx ).\n\n*Regis
 tration:* The event is FREE and you do not need to be a UK UPA member to a
 ttend. Please use the "Eventbrite":http://cambridge-upa.eventbrite.com/ se
 rvice to register. Please be aware that there are limited places so regist
 ration in advance is essential.\n\n*ABSTRACT*\nInteractive information vis
 ualization tools provide researchers with remarkable capabilities to suppo
 rt discovery. By combining powerful data mining methods with user-controll
 ed interfaces\, users are beginning to benefit from these potent telescope
 s for high-dimensional data. They can begin with an overview\, zoom in on 
 areas of interest\, filter out unwanted items\, and then click for details
 -on-demand. With careful design and efficient algorithms\, the dynamic que
 ries approach to data exploration can provide 100msec updates even for mil
 lion-record databases.\n\nThis talk will start by reviewing the growing co
 mmercial success stories such as www.spotfire.com\, www.smartmoney.com/mar
 ketmap and www.hivegroup.com. Then it will cover recent research progress 
 for visual exploration of large time series data applied to financial\, me
 dical\, and genomic data (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher ).\n\nOur next 
 step was to combine these key ideas to produce the Hierarchical Clustering
  Explorer 3.0 that now includes the rank-by-feature framework (www.cs.umd.
 edu/hcil/hce). By judiciously choosing from appropriate ranking criteria f
 or low-dimensional axis-parallel projections\, users can locate desired fe
 atures of higher dimensional spaces. Finally\, these strategies of unifyin
 g statistics with visualization are applied to network data and electronic
  health records (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/lifelines2). Demonstrations will be s
 hown.\n\n*BEN SHNEIDERMAN* (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben) is a Professor in 
 the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of th
 e Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/) at t
 he University of Maryland. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association f
 or Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for th
 e Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifeti
 me Achievement Award in 2001.\n\nBen is the author of "Designing the User 
 Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction" (5th ed. M
 arch 2009\, forthcoming) http://www.awl.com/DTUI/. With S. Card and J. Mac
 kinlay\, he co-authored "Readings in Information Visualization: Using Visi
 on to Think" (1999). With Ben Bederson he co-authored "The Craft of Inform
 ation Visualization" (2003). His book "Leonardo's Laptop" appeared in Octo
 ber 2002 (MIT Press) (http://mitpress.mit.edu/leonardoslaptop) and won the
  IEEE book award for Distinguished Literary Contribution.\n
LOCATION:Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road
 )\, Cambridge
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