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updates

15 October 2012
At VisWeek 2012: studies of slope judgments (InfoVis) and enterprise analysts (VAST best paper nominee).

20 September 2012
We discuss Interactive Analysis of Big Data in ACM XRDS.

28 June 2012
Jeff sat down for an interview on Data Stories.

3 April 2012
Three new papers at AVI '12.

17 March 2012
Two new systems released: the Datavore in-browser database and C3 library for color naming models.

2 March 2012
Our article for ACM catalogs Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis.

14 February 2012
Four new papers at CHI 2012.

12 February 2012
The New York Times uses D3 to visualize Obama's Budget Proposal.

21 December 2011
D3 was named the #1 data visualization project of the year by Flowing Data!

14 September 2011
A flurry of research! Four new papers at UIST 2011, plus four more at VisWeek 2011.

20 April 2011
Wrangler and Protovis, along with other data tools, were featured in ComputerWorld.

18 February 2011
SocialFlows was featured in MIT Technology Review!

courses

CS448b: Data Visualization
Prof. Jeffrey Heer

CS448g: Research Topics in Interactive Data Analysis
Prof. Jeffrey Heer

CS147: Human-Computer Interaction Design
Prof. Scott Klemmer

CS247: HCI Design Studio
Prof. Jeffrey Heer

CS376: Research Topics in Human-Comp Interaction
Prof. Scott Klemmer

CS148: Computer Graphics
Prof. Pat Hanrahan

co-conspirators

Stanford HCI Group
Stanford NLP Group
Stanford Vision Lab
Stanford MobiSocial Lab
Stanford Graphics Lab

the stanford visualization group

As digital information becomes increasingly cheap and ubiquitous, how will we keep abreast with the rising tide of data? We investigate the perceptual, cognitive, and social factors involved in making sense of large data collections, and develop novel interactive systems for visual analysis and communication. Meet the group...
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recent publications

ICML 2013 - Atlanta, GA

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Topic Model Diagnostics: Assessing Domain Relevance via Topical Alignment
Jason Chuang, Sonal Gupta, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2013
PDF (4.6 MB) | Supplementary Material (2.3 MB)

JAMIA 2013

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Identifying Medical Terms in Patient-Authored Text: A Crowdsourcing-based Approach
Diana MacLean, Jeffrey Heer
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2013
PDF (963.2 KB) | Journal | Software

EuroVis 2013 - Leipzig, Germany

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imMens: Real-time Visual Querying of Big Data
Zhicheng Liu, Biye Jiang, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 32(3), 2013
PDF (3.7 MB) | Software | Video
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Selecting Semantically-Resonant Colors for Data Visualization
Sharon Lin, Julie Fortuna, Chinmay Kulkarni, Maureen Stone, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2013
PDF (481.6 KB) | Best Paper Award

CHI 2013 - Paris, France

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The Efficacy of Human Post-Editing for Language Translation
Spence Green, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2013
PDF (2.3 MB) | Best Paper Award
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Webzeitgeist: Design Mining the Web
Ranjitha Kumar, Arvind Satyanarayan, Cesar Torres, Maxine Lim, Salman Ahmad, Scott R. Klemmer, Jerry O. Talton
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2013
PDF (15.0 MB) | Best Paper Award
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Modeling How People Extract Color Themes from Images
Sharon Lin, Pat Hanrahan
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2013
PDF (3.4 MB) | Software | Best Paper Nominee

ACM TOCHI 2012

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"Without the Clutter of Unimportant Words": Descriptive Keyphrases for Text Visualization
Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Trans. on Computer-Human Interaction, 19(3), 1–29, 2012
PDF (855.7 KB)

VisWeek 2012 - Seattle, WA

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Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study
Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology (VAST), 2012
PDF (228.9 KB) | Best Paper Honorable Mention
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An Empirical Model of Slope Ratio Comparisons
Justin Talbot, John Gerth, Pat Hanrahan
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2012
PDF (596.8 KB)

AVI 2012 - Capri, Italy

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GraphPrism: Compact Visualization of Network Structure
Sanjay Kairam, Diana MacLean, Manolis Savva, Jeffrey Heer
Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2012
PDF (2.1 MB)
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Profiler: Integrated Statistical Analysis and Visualization for Data Quality Assessment
Sean Kandel, Ravi Parikh, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer
Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2012
PDF (1.3 MB) | Software
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Termite: Visualization Techniques for Assessing Textual Topic Models
Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer
Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2012
PDF (2.3 MB) | Website | Software

CHI 2012 - Austin, TX

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Color Naming Models for Color Selection, Image Editing and Palette Design
Jeffrey Heer, Maureen Stone
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2012
PDF (10.2 MB) | Website | Software
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Interpretation and Trust: Designing Model-Driven Visualizations for Text Analysis
Jason Chuang, Daniel Ramage, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2012
PDF (991.3 KB) | Website
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Strategies for Crowdsourcing Social Data Analysis
Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2012
PDF (2.0 MB) | Video
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Balancing Exertion Experiences
Florian Mueller, Frank Vetere, Martin Gibbs, Darren Edge, Stefan Agamanolis, Jennifer Sheridan, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2012
PDF (17.9 MB) | Best Paper Nominee

VisWeek 2011 - Providence, RI

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Arc Length-based Aspect Ratio Selection
Justin Talbot, John Gerth, Pat Hanrahan
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2011
PDF (279.1 KB)
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D3: Data-Driven Documents
Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2011
PDF (2.2 MB) | Software | Video
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Divided Edge Bundling for Directional Network Data
David Selassie, Brandon Heller, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2011
PDF (8.2 MB) | Software
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Orion: A System for Modeling, Transformation and Visualization of Multidimensional Heterogeneous Networks
Jeffrey Heer, Adam Perer
IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology (VAST), 2011
PDF (1.3 MB)

UIST 2011 - Santa Barbara, CA

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ReVision: Automated Classification, Analysis and Redesign of Chart Images
Manolis Savva, Nicholas Kong, Arti Chhajta, Li Fei-Fei, Maneesh Agrawala, Jeffrey Heer
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2011
PDF (5.4 MB) | Image Corpus (142.1 KB) | Notable Paper Award
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Proactive Wrangling: Mixed-Initiative End-User Programming of Data Transformation Scripts
Philip J. Guo, Sean Kandel, Joseph Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2011
PDF (289.3 KB) | Website
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Peripheral Paced Respiration: Influencing User Physiology during Information Work
Neema Moraveji, Ben Olson, Truc Nguyen, Mahmoud Saadat, Yaser Khalighi, Roy Pea, Jeffrey Heer
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2011
PDF (382.6 KB)
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MUSE: Reviving Memories Using Email Archives
Sudheendra Hangal, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey Heer
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2011
PDF (1.9 MB) | Application

CHI 2011 - Vancouver, BC

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Wrangler: Interactive Visual Specification of Data Transformation Scripts
Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2011
PDF (1.9 MB) | Video | Website
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CommentSpace: Structured Support for Collaborative Visual Analysis
Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Joseph Hellerstein, Maneesh Agrawala
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2011
PDF (7.0 MB) | Video | Website | Best Paper Nominee
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