{"597950":{"#nid":"597950","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Visualization Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Steven M. Drucker, Principal Researcher in the VIBE group at Microsoft Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Georgia Tech Visualization Lab presents Dr. Steven M. Drucker, a principal researcher in the Visual Interaction in Business and Entertainment (VIBE) group at Microsoft Research and affiliate faculty at the University of Washington.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EData Presentations: Or why \u0026#39;Letting the Data Speak for Itself isn\u0026#39;t that easy\u0026#39;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe\u0026#39;ve got more data available to us than ever before and there\u0026#39;s an\u0026nbsp;imperative to understand and communicate effectively with that data. We\u0026nbsp;explore some of the concepts of communicating with data and why any\u0026nbsp;single visualization has biases built in through the choice of the data,\u0026nbsp;transformations, and their representation. To illustrate some of these ideas, I\u0026#39;ll use SandDance, (www.sanddance.ms) a\u0026nbsp;publicly available\u0026nbsp;research project that uses unit visualizations and multiple views to\u0026nbsp;help users capture insights and create compelling stories.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Steven M. Drucker is a Principal Researcher in the Visual\u0026nbsp;Interaction in Business and Entertainment (VIBE) group at Microsoft\u0026nbsp;Research (MSR) and affiliate faculty at the University of Washington\u0026nbsp;Computer Science and Engineering Department. His research focuses on\u0026nbsp;human computer interaction for dealing with large amounts of\u0026nbsp;information. In particular, he is exploring democratizing the process of\u0026nbsp;understanding and explaining information through the creation of tools\u0026nbsp;that facilitate discovery and communication of insights through natural\u0026nbsp;interaction and storytelling techniques. He received an MSc in Robot\u0026nbsp;Learning from the AI Lab at MIT and a PhD in computer graphics at the\u0026nbsp;MIT Media Lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his career at Microsoft, he has demonstrated his work on stage\u0026nbsp;with Bill Gates and Satya Nadella; shipped software on the web and\u0026nbsp;PowerBI for a compelling way to explore and present data; created a web\u0026nbsp;service for gathering and acting on information collected on the web;\u0026nbsp;was written up in the New York Times; filed over 108 patents; and\u0026nbsp;published over 100 papers on technologies as diverse as exploratory\u0026nbsp;search, information visualization, multi-user environments, online\u0026nbsp;social interaction, hypermedia research, human and robot perceptual\u0026nbsp;capabilities, robot learning, parallel computer graphics, spectator\u0026nbsp;oriented gaming, and human interfaces for camera control.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Visualization Lab presents a distinguished lecture by Dr. Steven M. 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