A few more thoughts from the Oxford conference and then, I promise, I’ll stop. I learned so many new things during this conference, saw so many bright lights, and challenged so many of my own assumptions that it’s difficult to know how to process it all. These blog entries have really helped, so thanks for [...]
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August 17, 2009
Still more from Oxford…
On yet another day at the visualization conference, we heard wonderful back-to-back talks given by Manesh Agrawal (UC Berkeley) and Barbara Tversky (Columbia University, Teachers College) on design principles for visual communication. Agrawal and Tversky have collaborated before and their talks complimented each other perfectly. Agrawal started by introducing a generalized procedure for getting the [...]
August 15, 2009
More from Oxford…
“That which we know, we have first seen.” (Goethe, 1798)
…That was the quote on Felice Frankel’s opening slide during her visualization session. Per usual, Felice did a fabulous job – explaining her pictures but she also lead us to a thoughtfully implied take-home lesson with the visual quality of her projected slides. Each of Felice’s [...]
August 7, 2009
More from Oxford…
Since Oxford is really the star of this week of blog entries, I really feel the need to showcase it further. So, here, for your visual delight, are some of my favorite scenes from Oxford. All of these were taken within a few blocks of Magdalene College, where I’m staying.
I am so struck by [...]
August 6, 2009
More on science visualization talks
I’m going to highlight a few of the most interesting talks from the science visualization conference in Oxford, sprinkled in with my favorites from the photos I’ve taken in and around this enchanting town. To kick things off, Alyssa Goodman (Harvard University), gave a wonderful talk about her work visualizing astronomical data. Alyssa showed us [...]
