Urban Big Data Visualization

Speaker:        Dr. Xiaoru Yuan
                School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science
                and vice director of Information Science Center
                Peking University

Title:          "Urban Big Data Visualization"

Data:           Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Time:           3:00pm - 4:00pm.

Venue:          Room 3584 (via lifts 27/28), HKUST

Abstract:

Understanding the complex nature of activities in modern metropolitan
regions are difficult due to the vast amount of data required for
processing and analysis. Visualization provides essential accesses for
users to comprehend such big data and gain insights, which is crucial for
decision makers, political figures, as well as the general public. This
talk will discuss visualization cases covering various types of urban
data, including taxi GPS data, vehicle RFID data, subway IC card data, and
social media data, and demonstrate how different data sets can be
integrated for advanced visual analysis. With the assistant of properly
designed visualization and interaction, both general pubic and experts can
interactively conduct the data exploration, mental image construction, and
insight discovery.


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Biography:

Bio: Xiaoru Yuan is a tenured faculty member in the School of Electronics
Engineering and Computer Science and vice director of Information Science
Center, at Peking University. He received Bachelor degrees in chemistry
and law from Peking University, China, in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He
received the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2006, from the University
of Minnesota at Twin Cities. His primary research interests are in the
field of scientific visualization, information visualization and visual
analytics. He has co-authored over 60 technical papers in IEEE
Visualization, IEEE Information Visualization, IEEE TVCG, IEEE EuroVis,
IEEE PacificVis and other major international visualization conference and
journals. His co-authored work on high dynamic range volume visualization
received the Best Application Paper Award at the IEEE Visualization 2005
conference. He and his student team won the award of Outstanding Situation
Awareness in IEEE VAST Challenge 2013, and further won three major awards
in IEEE VAST Challenge 2014. He served on the program committees of IEEE
VIS, EuroVis, and IEEE PacificVis. He was the organization co-chair of
IEEE PacificVis 2009. He founded ChinaVis conference in 2014 and served as
the program co-chair. He also served on the editorial board of CCF journal
of CAD&CG and Springer Journal of Visualization, and as a guest editor of
IEEE TVCG and IEEE CG&A. He is a CCF outstanding member and the chair of
CCF YOCSEF (2012-2013). For more information, see http://vis.pku.edu.cn/wiki