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The SAMSI-FODAVA Workshop on Interactive Visualization and Analysis of Massive Data will be held on December 10-12, 2012.
Posted: October 02, 2012
The FODAVA Annual Meeting will immediately follow (Dec 12-13) the SAMSI/FODAVA joint workshop at the same location.
Posted: September 05, 2012
Many of the modern data sets such as text and image data can be represented in high-dimensional vector spaces and have benefited from computational methods that utilize advanced techniques from num
Posted: June 30, 2012

Quality Metrics for Visual Analytics of High-Dimensional Data

Speaker: 
Daniel Keim
Abstract: 

Visual Analytics of high-dimensional data is particularly challenging. In my talk I will present and discuss quality metrics which have been proposed to help in the visual exploration of patterns in high-dimensional data. In a number of recent approaches, quality metrics have been used to automate the demanding search through large spaces of alternative visualizations, allowing the user to concentrate on the most promising visualizations as suggested by the quality metrics. I will present a set of factors for discriminating the quality metrics, visualization techniques, and the process itself. The process can be described through a reworked version of the well-known information visualization pipeline. The usefulness of the model will be shown by applying it to several visual analytics approaches that are based on quality metrics.

Bio: 
Daniel Keim is full professor and head of the Information Visualization and Data Analysis Research Group at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He has been actively involved in information visualization and data analysis research for more than 20 years and developed a number of novel information visualization and visual analysis techniques for very large datasets. Dr. Keim got his Ph.D. and habilitation degrees in computer science from the University of Munich. Before joining the University of Konstanz, Dr. Keim was associate professor at the University of Halle, Germany and Technology Consultant at AT&T Shannon Research Labs, NJ, USA.