Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Guest Speaker

Button Visual Analytics: Powering Discovery, Decisions, and Actions from Floods of Data

David Ebert
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University

Oct 22 2009 3:30PM
480 Dreese Labs
All interested parties are welcome to attend.
Refreshments will be available in the presentation

Abstract:
While less than five years old, the emerging area of visual analytics has become crucial to enabling insight and decision making in a wide range of fields. In this talk, I'll characterize the essentials of visual analytics and show the potential of visual analytics to dramatically transform scientific discovering, engineering development, medical research, business planning and management, public health, emergency response, and safety. Example visual analytic projects will be used to highlight our initial results and show the impact and potential of the field. Finally, I'll conclude by discussing the challenges and opportunities for visual analytics.

Bio:
David Ebert is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, a University Faculty Scholar, a Fellow of the IEEE, and Director of the Purdue University Visualization and Analytics Center (PURVAC), which leads the Visualization Science team of the Department of Homeland Security's Command Control and Interoperability Center of Excellence. Dr. Ebert performs research in novel visualization techniques, visual analytics, volume rendering, information visualization, perceptually-based visualization, illustrative visualization, mobile graphics and visualization, and procedural abstraction of complex, massive data. Ebert has been very active in the visualization community, teaching courses, presenting papers, co-chairing many conference program committees, serving on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee, serving as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, serving as a member of the IEEE Computer Society's Publications Board, serving on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors, and successfully managing a large program of external funding to develop more effective methods for visually communicating information.

Host: Richard Parent

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