Welcome to Cagatay Turkay, the latest academic to join the staff at the giCentre. Catagay brings expertise in applied data science, specialising in interactive visualization of high-dimensional data, especially in the bioinformatics domain. After period of growth for the giCentre, this brings the number of academics and researchers in the group to 14.
"Great ideas for visualizing data" at City Unrulyversity
Jason, Sarah, Aidan and Rick presented a selection of giCentre work at City Unrulyversity - a free popup university in the heart of Tech City. This initiative brings audiences from some of London's newest and most innovative technology startup companies together with academics from City University London to exchange new ideas in a stimulating and informal environment. This is the third event run by the giCentre at Unrulyversity. We will presenting a further evening sessions in January.
giCentre at VIS 2013
The giCentre attended IEEE VIS in Atlanta where we were involved in a full range of presentations. Work on provenance in visual analytics presented by Rick and transformation for understanding group movement presented by Natalia, formed our main contributions to VAST. In the Infovis track, Sarah presented our findings on creative user-centered visualization for energy analysts. Poster presentations from our PhD students included Alex's work on subjective survey classification of photographs and Donia's visual language for transitions in narrative visualization.
Aidan Slingsby appointed as lecturer in visual and analytic computing
After working in the giCentre for five years as a Willis Research Fellow, we are delighted to announce that Aidan Slingsby has been appointed as lecturer in visual and analytic computing at City. He will continue research in uncertainty and movement visualization and will now also be teaching our undergraduate and postgraduate students in data visualization and analytics. His appointment comes at a time of significant expansion in the giCentre and Department of Computer Science with two new professorial appointments in visual analytics and a lectureship in data science.
Two new appointments in visual analytics at the giCentre
We welcome Professors Natalia Andrienko and Gennady Andrienko who have just joined the giCentre as part-time academic staff. Natalia and Gennady are well-known and prolific research leaders in the Visual Analytics field. We look forward to their contribution to strengthen our teaching and research portfolio. They will also retain part-time lead scientist positions at the Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, dividing their time between the two institutions.
New video: Supporting the visual analysis of the behaviour of gulls
Our new video describes the results of a two week research visit originally taken in 2011 where Aidan worked with bird ecologists to design and implement visualisation techniques to understand bird behaviour. GPS attached to gulls allowed Aidan and the ecologists to track and visualize the birds' movements through time and space. The work was funded by COST-Move and resulted in a visualization tool that the ecologists continue to use today.
New video: Historical migration in Ireland (or how OD maps work)
Our new video describes how OD maps work, using historical internal Irish Migration as an example. OD maps are designed for showing flows between places and have some advantages over some other representations. This video explains builds on joint work with Mary Kelly from the University of Ireland, Maynooth showing how new forms of cartography provide insight into historical migration.