Dear everyone, We are advertising a fully funded PhD studentship with focus on Interactive Visualization of Heterogeneous Multi-Source Data at Newcastle University, UK. One of the most challenging and important tasks in data science today is to extract informative and valuable knowledge from the constantly increasing data deluge. There is a great need of efficient and usable analysis tools that support gaining of insight and address data analysis challenges. Data visualization utilize methods from HCI, computer graphics, data mining and other data science areas to support knowledge generation and bridge the gap between data and user. A major challenge in big data analysis is the integrative analysis of heterogeneous data that is gathered from multiple sources. These data may be of different types, collected at different levels of detail and from different application domains; and it is expected that the integrative analysis across datasets may lead to greater insight. Such data is common in areas such as climate and weather research, combining for instance temperature data, pollution levels and demographical data, or bio-medical domains where data as diverse as genome sequences and environmental data may need to be combined. Within this project you will develop and implement state-of-the-art visualization methods to support analysis of diverse multi-source data. The project may focus on one or several areas of relevance, including for instance: - Visual representation of heterogeneous data (numerical, categorical, text, networks…) - Visual representation of correlation and other relationships across multiple heterogeneous datasets - Visual integration and coordination of data at different levels of detail - Visual representation and analysis of the uncertainty generated through the combination of diverse data from different sources - Visual analysis of diverse data on small display devices. Further detail and information on how to apply is available at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/sources/ukeustudents/cs063.html Please note that the application deadline is 23 Nov. For more information, please contact Dr Sara Johansson Fernstad: sara.fernstad@ncl.ac.uk _____________________________________________ Sara Johansson Fernstad, PhD Lecturer in Visualization School of Computing Newcastle University Urban Sciences Building 1 Science Square Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE4 5TG Office: 4.042 E-mail: sara.fernstad@newcastle.ac.uk URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/people/profile/sarafernstad