News

Visualizing the COVID-19 Outbreak

How is COVID-19 spreading across the United States? Check out this interactive visualization of live data showing confirmed cases over time across the United States.

New Article in Inaugural Issue of ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

A paper titled CarePre: An Intelligent Clinical Decision Assistance System was published as an article in the 1st issue of ACM's new Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.

New Grant for Collaborative Project at the Intersection of Visual Analytics and Information Retrieval

A one year grant from the Department of Defense will lead to new ways to contextualize structured data visualizations with relevant text documents.

Gotz Named to IEEE TVCG Editorial Board

David Gotz, director of the VACLab, has been named to the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) Editorial Board. He begins a four year appointment as an Associate Editor that will run through Fall 2023.

New Website Launched

Welcome to the new VACLab website. We'll try to keep this updated with the latest on our research, software, and accomplishments. We've started things off with some 'legacy' content from our old website. Meanwhile, stay tuned for great things to come!

New Paper at IEEE Big Data 2019

A paper titled Visual Anomaly Detection in Event Sequence Data was introduced at IEEE Big Data 2019 in Los Angeles, Calafornia in December 2019. Lead author Shunan Guo...

Research at AMIA

With the conclusion of IEEE VIS and our multiple paper presentations in Vancouver, our attention has started shifting to the upcoming AMIA Annual Symposium in Washington, DC. Our group (and collaborators) will be presenting two abstracts during the five day meetings. Both abstracts are related to our PrecisionVISSTA project funded by the NIH. In the first abstract, we present an overview of the project including a focus on the challenges of extracting actional insights from Bring-You-Own-Device mHealth data:

Third IEEE VIS Paper and Best Paper Award

Following up on the earlier news that my research team has two full journal papers appearing at IEEE VIS, we’ve also had our short paper about Periphery Plots accepted in the IEEE VIS short paper program. But that’s not all! In addition to having our third paper at IEEE VIS, we’ve also been award the Best Paper Award in the Short Paper category for our work on Periphery Plots. We look forward to presenting this work during the IEEE VIS opening plenary session in Vancouver later this month.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

My group is currently recruiting for two Undergraduate Research Assistants to join us for the 2019-2020 academic year with an option to continue through Summer 2020. Students will be supported through funds from the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program to work on my team’s ongoing research initiatives. Students selected to join us will embed within the VACLab research group as full contributing members. They will participate in all research activities from idea generation to programming to evaluation to dissemination.

Two Papers Accepted for IEEE VIS

We’ve recently learned that not one, but TWO articles from the VACLab will be part of IEEE VIS 2019 and published in the January 2020 issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Both papers are related to our NSF-sponsored research exploring contextual visualization methods. The first paper describes our latest work to address selection bias in high-dimensional exploratory visualization. A pre-print is available on arxiv and a video figure can be found on our Vimeo account.