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Visualization Friday Forum Fall 2013 Welcome!

Announcements: DiVE Archeology Open House this afternoon, 4-6pm Data & GIS fall workshops Data & GIS student job opening D3 monthly study group

Visualization for Teaching and Research

Angela Zoss Data Visualization Coordinator Data & GIS Services, Perkins Library Visualization Friday Forum September 6, 2013

Reporting on the 2013 Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science & Education

Gordon Research Conferences

“ Welcome to the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC), a non-profit organization managed by and for the benefit of the scientific community. The Gordon Research Conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, and their related technologies.”

http://www.grc.org/home.aspx, Accessed 9/5/13

“...a uniquely informal, interactive format…”

Full week Single track Isolated location, food and housing included “Off the record”

Example Venue: Bryant University

Food Talks Housing 1/ Posters Housing 2

History of GRC on Visualization

Held 9 times since 1994, currently held biennially Focus is on visualization for scientific disciplines, for novice and expert audiences (and creators) Encourages multidisciplinary participation,

• esp. scientists, designers, and cognitive scientists

http://www.grc.org/conferences.aspx?id=0000385

Encouraging Collaboration

Pre-conference workshops

• ne on evaluation/assessment, one on HTML5/ChemDoodle

NASA Visionary Grant Program

up to $5k for exploratory research, travel

Discussion time after talks

40 minute talk, 5+ minute neighbor chat, 10+ minute Q&A

Open poster sessions

2 hours every afternoon, informally again in evening

Evening social hour

5 free drink tickets per person

2013 GRC on Visualization: Topics

• 1. Groundbreaking research using visualizations
• 2. Educational applications of visualizations
• 3. Creating visualizations
• 4. Engaging the public with visualizations

http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2013&program=visualiz

TOPICS: GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH

Simulating and Visualizing Astrophysics

• Dr. Ralf Kähler, SLAC-Stanford

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~kaehler/homepage/visualizations/visualizations.html

Multi-isotope Imaging Mass Spectrometry

• Dr. Claude Lechene, Harvard University

doi:10.1038/nature10734

D-S Zhang et al. Nature 481, 520-524 (2012) doi:10.1038/nature10745

Incorporation of 15N into adult mouse hair cells.

TOPICS: EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS

Gesturing to Learn

• Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago

Gesture/speech mismatch can signal an opportunity for learning Even an induced mismatch improves learning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPPaJrhluS4

Scaffolding and Adaptive Systems

Leonardo and PhET

http://www.intellimedia.ncsu.edu/?p=55 http://phet.colorado.edu/

Digital Textbooks

Gaël McGill, Digizyme

• E. O.

Wilson’s Life on Earth, using iBooks Author

http://eowilsonfoundation.org/introduction-of-e-o-wilsons-life-on-earth-at-apples-launch-of-the-ibook-from-the-guggenheim/

TOPICS: CREATING VISUALIZATIONS

Interactive Data Analysis Tools

• Dr. Jeff Heer, University of Washington

Query using Facebook API Node-link diagram Matrix display with clustering Matrix display, API return order

5000-item result limit Silent failure

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473871611415994

Data Wrangling

http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/

Easy Chemistry Visualizations

Jmol, ChemDoodle, Molecular Materials Informatics

http://jmol.sourceforge.net/ http://www.chemdoodle.com/ http://molmatinf.com/

Design, Data, Decisions

• Dr. John Maeda, Rhode Island School of Design

design and engineering making solutions art and science making questions

Do you really think art is worthwhile for scientists? Art is safe; you won’t kill anyone by creating art. It allows you to hone your ability to fail, which you can then take with you to your work.

http://stemtosteam.org/

TOPICS:

ENGAGING THE PUBLIC WITH VISUALIZATION

NOVA’s Education and Outreach Efforts

Rachel Connolly, NOVA From public understanding of science to public engagement with science

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/earth-from-space.html

Science Video Journals

• Dr. Kira Henderson, Journal of Visualized Experiments

Using peer-reviewed video journals to improve replicability and accessibility of scientific research

http://www.jove.com/video/1993/human-fear-conditioning-conducted-full-immersion-3-dimensional

Visualizing the Earth Systems

• Dr. Ned Gardiner, NOAA

Using visualizations to help people experience the Earth as a system and make well-informed policy decisions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oudgYtNtg1E

VISUALIZATION FOR THE MASSES

A personal research journey

Inspiration

Decidedly n not for the masses.

Network Literacy

What skills do people need to be able to read network visualizations? What do we want people to get out of these visualizations? What will motivate them to care?

þ Dissertation ☐ Dissertation þ Dissertation

Teaching Science Through Visualization

Used NASA Visionary Grant Program to develop a proposal for a video podcast “Visions of Science”

(http://visionsofscience.tv/)

Very rough demo

(http://bit.ly/VoSdemo)

Goals

Disseminate powerful scientific visualizations to wider audiences Promote the public’s understanding of scientific representations Provide existing research projects a venue for engaging broadly with the public Showcase positive, diverse role models for people considering careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) fields

Intended Format

5-10 minute episodes 2-3 episodes per month 2 hosts, 1 expert Expert brings and explains a visualization that can be used to engage with an interesting scientific development

Timeline

Thanks to a starter grant, currently setting up web presence and equipment Recording host introductions soon Conducting more practice interviews over the next month or two Approaching and scheduling experts starting October/November

Suggestions for…

Format changes? Topics? Funding sources? Logo ideas? Advertising or collaboration opportunities?

THANKS!

angela.zoss@duke.edu