Dear Applied Statistics Community,
Please join us for this week's installment of the Applied Statistics workshop, where Fernanda Viegas will be presenting her talk entitled, "From Wikipedia to Visualization and Back'. Fernanda provided the following abstract for her talk:
This talk will be a tour of our recent
visualization work, starting with a case study of how a new data visualization
technique uncovered dramatic dynamics in Wikipedia. The technique sheds
light on the mix of dedication, vandalism, and obsession that underlies
the online encyclopedia. We discuss the reaction of the Wikipedia community
to this visualization, and how it led to a recent ambitious project to
make data visualization technology available to everyone. This project,
Many Eyes, is a web site where people may upload their own data, create
interactive visualizations, and carry on conversations. The goal is to
foster a social style of data analysis in which visualizations serve not
only as a discovery tool for individuals but also as a means to spur discussion
and collaboration.
Fernanda also provided links to the following papers,
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf
http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/papers/viegasinfovis07.pdf
And to a website based upon her recent work in data visualization
Link to Many Eyes site:
www.many-eyes.com
As always, the workshop meets at 12 noon on Wednesday, in room N-354 CGIS-Knafel. A light lunch will be provided
Best,
Justin Grimmer