Han-Wei Shen, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
9:00 – 10:30 am
OSU Research Commons
3rd Floor, 18th Ave. Library
Presentation Title: Data Visualization
Visualization has become a major means for analyzing big data from a variety of applications. In this presentation, Dr. Han-Wei Shen will give an overview of both the theories and practices of visualization for large scale data sets. In the first part of the talk, Dr. Shen will present the semiology of graphics, which is the theory of visual signs for presenting data. He will discuss how to identify information components from data, the principles of mapping the information components to visual variables, and the compare the effectiveness of different visual variables. In the second half of the talk, Dr. Shen will give an overview of various software tools for creating visualization from data. Finally, he will present several examples created by students in the introduction to data visualization course offered in Spring 2017.
About Dr. Shen
Han-Wei Shen is a full professor at The Ohio State University. He has over two decades of experience in large scale data visualization and analysis. He has participated in many federal big data research initiatives, including the NSF’s big data program,multiple Department of Energy (DOE)’s Scientific Data Management and Analysis at Extreme Scale projects, and DOE’s SciDAC Institute of Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization. Before joining Ohio State, he was a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View California between 1996 and 1999. His primary research interests are scientific visualization and computer graphics. Professor Shen is a winner of National Science Foundation’s CAREER award and US Department of Energy’s Early Career Principal Investigator Award. He also won the outstanding teaching award three
times from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University.
