John Goldsmith
John Goldsmith
Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science
University of Chicago
Research Project
Visualization for Understanding and Exploration (VUE)
Project Team:
2018 – 2020
Project Summary
| This project explored and developed new ways to bring data visualization to humanistic research at the University. |
The goals of this project are to increase the awareness and sophistication of thinking about data visualization at the University of Chicago, especially within the humanistic disciplines, and to take concrete steps towards empowering faculty projects that could benefit from data and information visualization. The project, a partnership between the Neubauer Collegium and the Office of Research and National Laboratories, aims to explore new ways of conducting research in light of the deluge of data in the humanities and social sciences by seeking to understand the transformative character of data visualization for research and communication within humanistic disciplines. VUE will help build a community of scholars across multiple disciplines who share an interest in how data visualization can help both their work and the dissemination of their work. This will be done by bringing innovative, forward-thinking leaders in this field to campus for seminars and interactive work sessions and by creating an ecosystem to support the development of new visualization projects across multiple humanistic fields. VUE will develop and make data visualization tools available for download or through web platforms and host an exhibition to demo these tools, which will be open to the entire UChicago community. By fostering a data and information visualization community on campus, VUE will support the ongoing research of scholars in humanistic fields, provide engagement opportunities and research tools for the campus community, and establish UChicago as a hub for humanistic data visualization.
Research Team
Hakizumwami Birali Runesha
Hakizumwami Birali Runesha
Associate Vice President for Research Computing; Director of the Research Computing Center
University of Chicago
Project Narrative
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Spatial Renderings of Urbanization and Exposures to Climate Hazards
Lecture
Spatial Renderings of Urbanization and Exposures to Climate Hazards
Understanding many of the processes at the intersection of the social sciences (demography, vulnerability, urbanization) and climate change (exposures to seaward hazards, droughts, heatwaves) ...
VUE Data Visualization Symposium // Data Feminism
Conference
VUE Data Visualization Symposium // Data Feminism
SCHEDULE
2:00 – 2:05 pmIntroductionJohn Goldsmith, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
2:05 – 2:50 pmVUE Project Presentations
Capitalizing on ...
Visualizing the Presence of Absence and Viral Maps: Challenges at the Intersections of Cartographic Design and Spatial Data Science
Lecture
Visualizing the Presence of Absence and Viral Maps: Challenges at the Intersections of Cartographic Design and Spatial Data Science
New forms of geographic data and spatial analysis are prompting us to engage with increasingly complex problem domains. While there remain plenty of use cases in which traditional approaches to ...
Introduction to Information Data Visualization
Workshop
Introduction to Information Data Visualization
Data visualization allows researchers to explore and then display data in ways to help tell a story about it. This workshop, hosted by the Research Computing Center and sponsored by the Neubauer ...
The Intersection of Language, Algorithms, and Design
Lecture
The Intersection of Language, Algorithms, and Design
How often do we have the designs we want, versus the designs our algorithms know how to make? For many years, Marti Hearst (Professor, School of Information and Department of Electrical Engineering ...
Visualizing Uncertainty
Lecture
Visualizing Uncertainty
Charts, graphs, and other information visualizations amplify cognition by enabling users to visually perceive trends and differences in quantitative data. While guidelines dictate how to choose ...
Introduction to Data Visualization
Workshop
Introduction to Data Visualization
Data visualization allows researchers to explore and then display data in ways to help tell a story about it. This workshop, sponsored by the Visualization for Understanding and Exploration (VUE) ...
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
Spatial Renderings of Urbanization and Exposures to Climate Hazards
Lecture
Spatial Renderings of Urbanization and Exposures to Climate Hazards
Understanding many of the processes at the intersection of the social sciences (demography, vulnerability, urbanization) and climate change (exposures to seaward hazards, droughts, heatwaves) ...
VUE Data Visualization Symposium // Data Feminism
Conference
VUE Data Visualization Symposium // Data Feminism
SCHEDULE
2:00 – 2:05 pmIntroductionJohn Goldsmith, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
2:05 – 2:50 pmVUE Project Presentations
Capitalizing on ...
Visualizing the Presence of Absence and Viral Maps: Challenges at the Intersections of Cartographic Design and Spatial Data Science
Lecture
Visualizing the Presence of Absence and Viral Maps: Challenges at the Intersections of Cartographic Design and Spatial Data Science
New forms of geographic data and spatial analysis are prompting us to engage with increasingly complex problem domains. While there remain plenty of use cases in which traditional approaches to ...
Introduction to Data Visualization
Workshop
Introduction to Data Visualization
Data visualization allows researchers to explore and then display data in ways to help tell a story about it. This workshop, sponsored by the Visualization for Understanding and Exploration (VUE) ...
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
Introduction to Information Data Visualization
Workshop
Introduction to Information Data Visualization
Data visualization allows researchers to explore and then display data in ways to help tell a story about it. This workshop, hosted by the Research Computing Center and sponsored by the Neubauer ...
Carousel with 3 slides shown at a time. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate, or the slide dot buttons at the end to jump to slides.
The Intersection of Language, Algorithms, and Design
Lecture
The Intersection of Language, Algorithms, and Design
How often do we have the designs we want, versus the designs our algorithms know how to make? For many years, Marti Hearst (Professor, School of Information and Department of Electrical Engineering ...
Visualizing Uncertainty
Lecture
Visualizing Uncertainty
Charts, graphs, and other information visualizations amplify cognition by enabling users to visually perceive trends and differences in quantitative data. While guidelines dictate how to choose ...
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