Talk Abstract:
Data Visualization is effectively used to explore and explain complex data. In the talk, I will
present three visual tools for different data domains that can help to formulate hypotheses in
early stages of data discovery:
- Data often comes with categorical information that assigns each item to one or multiple sets.
We developed UpSet to explore the set intersections. Interactively, a user can filter and recombine
intersections and calculate statistical measures on them. I will introduce the visual mapping and
in a short demo, I will demonstrate the core features of our system.
- Acquisition of biological data has become fast and cost-efficient. As a result, a domain
scientist spends a large share of time in analyzing the experimental data. For example, RNAseq
allows to sequence RNA which can then be used to investigate alternative splicing events within
different conditions (different patient groups, different human tissues). ‘Vials’ provides a visual
analysis tool to investigate this complex data. I will introduce the biological data, explain it’s
mapping to visual variables, and show a short demo of the interactive system.
- The increased interest in neural networks and their common use imposes the question about the ‘
How ?’ - How do they work? What do they capture?. I will present a visual tool, LSTMVis, that
allows investigation of state changes on trained models (LSTMs) and can be one puzzle piece in the
quest of white-boxing neuronal networks.
All three projects resulted in open source tools which are used by domain experts to help them
to generate hypothesis as a first step towards insight.
Speaker’s Bio
Hendrik Strobelt was postdoctoral researcher in the Visual Computing Group at Harvard SEAS. He
will join IBM research, Cambridge, US. He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of
Konstanz, Germany and his MSc (Diplom) from TU Dresden, Germany.
URL:
http://hendrik.strobelt.com/Personal/index.html
Location
University of Konstanz, Universitätsstr. 10, Konstanz
Powerwall C202
University of Stuttgart, VISUS-Building, Allmandring 19, Vaihingen
Powerwall Room -01.116 (Live Transmission) |