The Oxford e-Research Centre is pleased to welcome Professor Jason Dykes from City University, to present a seminar on Tuesday 07 February 2012.
This seminar is open to all and will start at 2pm in the Oxford e-Research Centre Access Grid Room (room 277 - access available via 7 Keble Road).
Abstract
This seminar will focus on some of the recent giCentre work, where visualization is used to track bikes and people, present the UK census on a single page, provide an exploratory public-facing interface to data on local government service provision and reveal bias in London's local elections.
We’ll look at applications and techniques, but also methods for describing visualization alternatives, recording the visualization process as these are used in exploration and (perhaps) visualization design as giCentre ideas and applications are showcased.
Bio
Prof. Jason Dykes works in visualization at the giCentre at City University London, where he uses techniques from Cartography, Information Visualization, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science and GIScience to develop novel maps that help generate insights from data and communicate trends.
He and giCentre colleagues do so in a number of disciplines and application domains to some acclaim having won the GISRUK best paper prize for four years in succession, with 8 papers presented at IEEE Information Visualization in the last 5 years - 2 of which received honorable mentions and with 3 awards in the IEEE VAST challenge.
Jason is co-chair of the ICA Commission on GeoVisualization having edited "Exploring GeoVisualization" and a number of special issues in the domain. A National Teaching Fellow of the HE Academy and a member of the InfoVis organising committee Jason is papers Co-Chair at InfoVis 2012.
