Who: Marc Streit

Johannes Kepler University,  Institute of Computer Graphics, Linz, Austria

When: Feb 12, 2015, 11:00am

Where: Währinger Straße 29, 1090 Wien, Hörsaal 3

Title: Extracting, comparing, and manipulating subsets across tabular datasets

Abstract:

When visually analyzing data, not only the sheer amount of the data but also its complexity poses a problem. In this talk, I will summarize our efforts to come up with novel ways for interactively analyzing large, heterogeneous datasets. I will in particular discuss our work on extracting, comparing, and manipulating subsets across tabular datasets. Most of the presented work is embedded in the Caleydo project, which is a long-running collaboration between JKU Linz, TU Graz and Harvard University. In the last part of the presentation I will briefly talk about the necessary shift of the framework from being a standalone software to modern web technology.

 Short CV:

Marc Streit is assistant professor at the Institute of Computer Graphics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He finished his PhD at Graz University of Technology in early 2011 and moved to Linz later that year. As part of his tenure-track position, he spent a part of the year 2012 as a visiting researcher at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. In 2014 he received a Fulbright scholarship for research and lecturing at Harvard University.

He has won Best Paper Awards at InfoVis'13, BioVis’12, InfoVis’11, GI’10 and Honorable Mention Awards at CHI'14, InfoVis'14 and EuroVis’12. He is a co-author of the Nature Methods “Points of View” column. In 2013 he co-edited the Special Issue on Visual Analytics in the IEEE Computer journal. Additionally, he is actively contributing to the scientific community by serving on the organizing and program committee of several scientific events as well as by acting as a reviewer for high-quality journals and conferences.