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Visual Analytics Education Workshop
by John Stasko 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

*************************************************************** * * Call for Participation - Visual Analytics Education Workshop * *************************************************************** On Monday August 30, in conjunction with the Visual Analytics Community Consortium meeting (http://nvac.pnl.gov/meeting_2010/) we are holding a one-day workshop on visual analytics education at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. This workshop is intended to bring together those currently teaching courses closely related to visual analytics and those who are interested in doing so. The workshop is free. The goals of this workshop are to share lessons learned and best practices in teaching visual analytics, and to develop an example curriculum that will be vetted with the broader academic community. The workshop will feature interactive presentations by several people who have developed or taught visual analytics related courses. It also will include breakouts and group discussions on particular topics related to visual analytics education. We anticipate that topics such as course content and topics, assignments, teaching style, multi-course curricula, and many others will be discussed. This workshop is being organized by a group including Richard Fujimoto, Guy Lebanon, Haesun Park, and John Stasko from Georgia Tech; David Ebert, Marti Burns, and Tim Collins from Purdue; Georges Grinstein from U. Massachusetts-Lowell; and Richard May and Kris Cook from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It is a joint effort of the FODAVA, NVAC, VACCINE, and CCICADA Centers. What you'll get from participating: a chance to talk to your colleagues about your experiences, learn from their experiences, and work together to develop and refine ideas for visual analytics education, courses, and curricula. =============================================== Important Dates =============================================== * Friday August 13, 2010 - Registration deadline While the workshop is free, we do require that participants register by the deadline for our planning purposes. To register, please send an email to nvac.consortium(a)pnl.gov with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of attendees. ================================================ For More Information ================================================ More information about the workshop can be found at the website: http://nvac.pnl.gov/meeting_2010/workshop.stm. For hotel and travel information, please see the VAC Consortium Meeting website: http://nvac.pnl.gov/meeting_2010/.

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BBC Data Visualisation project
by tom.corby 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Apologies for cross-posting, please forward this announcement to those who may be interested. DataArt on BBC Backstage The BBC and the University of Westminster are pleased to inform you of the online launch of a major public data visualisation project DataArt on BBC Backstage. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data_art/index.php We believe that data is a vitally new reporting medium that tells us stories about our lives. Often this data is difficult to understand in its raw form of lists of numbers or text, but as we are exposed to it on a daily basis interpretation skills and access to information resources are increasingly important for us all. Converting this data into explorable visualisations helps us to comprehend it in ways that draw upon our innate capabilities to read information as images and patterns. As both a visual medium and a tool for reasoning, these visualisations straddle the disciplines of art, design, science and statistics. Who is DataArt for? DataArt aims to reach people who know little about visualisation but want to find out more, those looking at visualisation from an educational perspective and the existing developer community already engaged in producing their own work. What are we providing? DataArt provides public access to data visualizations of the BBC's online resources be they news information from around the world, web articles, music data or video and learning resources. For our launch we have released 4 visualisations for people to use immediately: Flared Music, 3d Documentary Explorer, SearchWeb, and News Globe. In addition we provide a learning resources section of the website giving further background information to the subject of visualisation including its histories and uses. This area will grow as the project develops and we hope will provide a rich source of educational material. For more advanced developers we have also provided some initial access to tools, tutorials and computer code you can download and modify. Over the coming months, more visualisations will be released leading to a second phase of the project in November 2010, which sees the release of further source code using a variety of different programming languages and software libraries. All our visualisations are based on BBC data and use sources that are already open to the public which you can use immediately for your own projects. We will also be creating new data sources and hope to provide access to BBC data not currently available to the public. Further releases will be publicised on our main site and via our facebook presence. Participate! We are interested in your thoughts and feedback whether you are a complete novice to the subject area, a student or an advanced practitioner. In the project blog we encourage you to tell us what you think about DataArt, share your experiences and publish links to work you have made with the material we have provided. We'll also pass on useful tips via the blog to help you get the most out of it. We'd also be delighted to hear your thoughts on via our facebook presence: http://www.facebook.com/pages/DataArt-BBC-Backstage/108238225894676 The project is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and is the result of collaboration between the Centre for Research in Education Art and Media (CREAM), at the University of Westminster, BBC Backstage and BBC Learning.

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Please post to the InfoVis mailing list
by Ribarsky, William 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

The Charlotte Visualization Center at UNC Charlotte invites applications for one or possibly two post-doctoral fellowships for interdisciplinary research in visual analytics. Areas of work include mobile visual analytics and interactive systems using novel interfaces. The successful candidate will work closely with a team led by Professor William Ribarsky and his colleagues of the VisCenter. The VisCenter is seeking a highly talented and committed individual with a demonstrated ability to work well with minimal supervision in a multi-disciplinary research environment. The successful candidate will contribute to leading research in visual analytics, considering some of the fundamental problems and most challenging applications facing the field today, and have the opportunity to develop his/her research, publication, and presentation skills under mentorship of the faculty investigators. Non-Technical Skills: Excellent oral and written communication skills are mandatory. A willingness to collaborate in a highly diverse, multi- disciplinary environment is also essential. Application: Please apply immediately to William Ribarsky, ribarsky(a)uncc.edu. Please include the names of at least three references along with a curriculum vitae and list of publications. Start date: Immediate. The initial appointment will be for a one-year period, with the possibility of an extension based upon performance and availability of funding. The Charlotte Visualization Center is a recognized leader in research in visualization and visual analytics. About The College of Computing and Informatics The College of Computing and Informatics provides academic programs in computer science, software and information systems, information technology, and bioinformatics. It is also the home to leading research centers and institutes, including the Center for Digital Identity and Cyber Defense Research, the Bioinformatics Research Center, the Charlotte Visualization Center, the Diversity in Information Technology Institute, the eBusiness Technology Institute, and the Software Solutions Lab. The Computer Science Department has over 700 students and the largest Ph.D. program at UNCC. ----------- Dr. William Ribarsky Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology Chair, Computer Science Department Director, Charlotte Visualization Center College of Computing and Informatics University of North Carolina at Charlotte www.viscenter.uncc.edu

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Final CFP for Int. workshop DataVIEW'10 (Data Visualization and Integration in Enterprises and on the Web)
by Alessandro Bozzon 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DATA VISUALIZATION AND INTEGRATION IN ENTERPRISES AND ON THE WEB (DATAVIEW '10) ***** Final Abstract submission deadline: July 6, 2010 **** ***** Final Paper submission deadline: July 12, 2010 **** Workshop held in conjunction with OTM 2010 Crete (Greece), 25 - 29 October 2010 Workshop website: http://dataview.como.polimi.it Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag. Best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE). IMPORTANT DATES --------------- EXTENDED -> July 6, 2010: Abstracts due (23h59 Hawaii Time) EXTENDED -> July 12, 2010: Papers due (23h59 Hawaii Time) EXTENDED -> August 2, 2010: Acceptance Notification (23h59 Hawaii Time) August 13, 2010: Camera-ready copies (23h59 Hawaii Time) WORKSHOP RATIONALE AND AIMS --------------------------- Recent years witnessed a proliferation of semi-structured, structured, and semantically annotated data on the Web: an increasing amount of individuals, public organization and enterprises, is currently publishing information for free usage. Contextually, the availability of a wide spectrum of high-level data integration tools - such as (enterprise) mash-up platforms - offered to developers (and to end users) several means for the integration of such data, enabling novel applications and business scenario. The usage of the Web as a common publication, mediation, aggregation and consumption platform decreased the existing gap between Web and Enterprise applications, which often leverage common data integration methodologies and tools. Moreover, the nature and the abundance of such structured data shifts the nature of user interactions, where models based on navigation of documents are replaced by paradigms that leverage the exploration of object repositories; in such a context, providing a satisfactory user experience proved to be a challenging task for application developers. In addition, as the richness and value of data also increases, Web and Enterprise applications must provide users with visualizations and interaction paradigms that leverage properties such as the underlying data relationships, source type, provenance, and quality. As a consequence, a deeper understanding of data integration, visualization and user interaction issues is becoming more and more compelling in applications design and development. We believe that, in order to tackle the new challenges provided by a Web of Data, data integration, visualization and user interaction methodologies and tools need to be revised to effectively manage the design and the interaction application with information. The aim of the DATAVIEW workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of Software Engineering, Web engineering, Semantic Web, Databases, (multimedia) Information Retrieval and data visualization. The main goal is to explore the feasibility of using and combining different approaches to create effective Web and Enterprise applications where the integration, visualization and interaction with data is a main concern, as well as to identify additional requirements needed in order to apply these methods and techniques to existing design and development environments. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ Areas of particular interest for the Workshop include (but are not limited to): + Integration of heterogeneous data in Enterprises and on the Web + Visualization of integrated heterogeneous in Enterprises and on Web data + Interfaces for Web-scale and large-scale data repositories search and exploration + Linked Data visualization and exploration + Taxonomies and ontologies for data visualization + Lightweight (semantic) metadata or knowledge integration + Conceptual models for data visualization and exploration + Data visualization for next-generation mobile devices + Studies on quality, usability, effectiveness of data visualization techniques + Innovative uses of tag clouds + Ambient information displays + Data visualization for large screens and interactive tablets + Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces + Visualizations for multimodal interaction + Tools for Web and Enterprises data visualizations + Applications: Search, Semantic Web, Social Web and Web 2.0, Adaptive and personalized Web applications, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Enterprise 2.0 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Papers should explore open research problems, as well as provide advances in the areas of workshop's core topic. Papers submitted to DATAVIeW ‘10 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members. Papers must be in English and may be submitted as: + Full Papers (10 pages) + Short Papers (5 pages) + Position Statements (3 pages) Paper submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper PROCEEDINGS ----------- The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Failure to comply with the above formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- Sara Comai ( Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Moira Norrie ( ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Alessandro Bozzon ( Politecnico di Milano, Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- + Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) + Irene Celino (CEFRIEL, Italy) + Emanuele DellaValle (Politecnico di Milano, Italy ) + Roberto De Virgilio (Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italy) + Flavio Maria De Paoli (Università degli studi di Milano, Italy) + Martin Gaedke (Chemnitz University of Technology) + Michael Grossniklaus (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) + Suzanne Little (KMI - The Open University, UK) + Dennis McLeod (University of Southern California, USA + Juan Carlos Preciado (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain) + Raluca Paiu (L3S Research Center, Germany) + Gabriella Pasi (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milan) + Beat Signer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) + Giovanni Toffetti Carughi (University of Lugano, Switzerland) + Marco Winckler (University Paul Sabatier, France)

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