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Abstract:
Some of the biggest societal challenges today are related to text: fake news, phishing emails, social media disinformation, & so on. Yet, text can sometimes be an afterthought in visualization. My new book, Visualizing with Text, (AKPeters, 2020), tackles the role of text & visualization. It starts by looking backwards & sideways to see how other domains interweave text into visualizations. Then, it assembles these as a set of textual ingredients that can be assembled into any visualization. From there, I show many different examples of new & extended visualizations. The talk will cover the history, the ingredients, & a few fun interactive examples.
Bio:
Richard Brath is a long time visualization designer with Uncharted Software. At Uncharted, he has created visualizations in use by hundreds of thousands of users per day. Richard is critical of the foundational assumptions of visualization, such as the role of text or shape in visualization. 10 years ago Richard started a PhD to research some of these issues, which has culminated in the publication of the book Visualizing with Text. Richard also publishes a blog on visualization at richardbrath.wordpress.com.
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From time to time we have Meet Our Members sessions. Instead of one speaker giving details on one topic, we have several speakers who have about 10 minutes to introduce themselves & their work. I am considering having one of these programs in April. Send an email to naomi at nbr-graphs.com if you would like to speak. Include a short description of your topic with a title & a sentence about who you are. The topic can be work you are proud of, lessons learned from a failed attempt, or even a request for help on a problem for which you need advice.
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