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What do I do?
I am currently in the Computer Science PhD program at Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests lie in the areas of "information visualization" and user interfaces. Information visualization refers to the design of visual elements for representing abstract information such as financial data (e.g. stock prices, p/e ratio), project management data (e.g. activity start-time, cost), or real-estate data (e.g. house-price, date-sold, number-of-rooms). Quite a few terms in there, but it basically means designing graphics such as bar-charts, tables, maps, etc for representing your everyday data. If you have ever used a spreadsheet program like Lotus-123 or Microsoft Excel, or if you have ever drawn a chart in Microsoft PowerPoint, you are already an "information visualization designer" !!
The main goal of researchers in this field is to make it easier for you and me to keep track of information on the net, navigate through our many files, and even analyze and compare our game statistics with our friends. If we were worried about mundane pursuits like making a living and investing our money, we could also use visualizations to keep track of our financial investments and get quick summaries of stock performance.
There are many different types of research that go on in the area of information visualization:
| Creating new graphical representations. |
| Creating new ways for people to interact with visualizations. |
| Helping people design visualizations through flexible tools and automation. |
| Understanding the tasks that people want to perform with visualizations. |
| Studying the human perceptual system to understand better how we can create more effective visualizations. |
Some of my work
I have done work in a variety of areas in information visualization. In the next sections I will briefly describe some of the work I have done, hilighting the more important aspects of each project. For detailed information on each of these areas, please refer to the publications section.
| AVID (Automatic Visualization Interface Designer) |
| SolarPlot & Aggregate TreeMap |
| InfoBug & timeWheel |
| SDM (Selective Dynamic Scaling) |
| SageBook |
Related Sites
Research Centers
| Graphics Visualization & Usability Center (Georgia Tech) |
| Microsoft. |
| Xerox PARC. |
| Inxight Software Home Page |
| GIST |
Data sources
| The UC CD-ROM Information System: Past, Present and Future |
| DES - Home Page |
| Statistics Data |
| EUROSTAT |
| BEA--national accounts data |
| Useful Data Sets |
Misc.
| Visualization Links: References |
| IEEE Conference Links |