jeffrey michael heer

Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Human-Computer Interaction
& Visualization Groups

642 Paul G. Allen Center, Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
Fax: +1 206 543 2969
jheer (at) uw.edu

Twitter: @jeffrey_heer

Admin: Diane Ronsano
Tel: +1 206 543 2421

Office Hours
By appointment, 642 Allen Center, UW

Teaching

Winter 2013
CS247 Interaction Design Studio
CS547 HCI Seminar
STS1 Public Life of Science & Tech.
Fall 2012
CS448b Data Visualization

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education

2008
Ph.D. Computer Science  University of California, Berkeley
Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration for Interactive Visualization
Advisor: Maneesh Agrawala
Committee: Stuart Card, Marti Hearst, Joe Hellerstein

2004
M.S. Computer Science  University of California, Berkeley
Prefuse: A Software Framework for Interactive Information Visualization
Advisor: James Landay, Second Reader: Marti Hearst

2001
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  University of California, Berkeley
Honors Program Breadth Area: Cognitive Science
Advisors: Christos Papadimitriou, James Landay

1997
High School Diploma  St. Mary's High School   Stockton, CA


employment

2013 - Present
University of Washington  Seattle, WA
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

2009 - 2013
Stanford University  Stanford, CA
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

2002 - 2008
University of California  Berkeley, CA
Graduate Researcher

Winter 2007
Microsoft Research  Redmond, WA
Research Intern

Summer 2006
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center  Cambridge, MA
Research Intern

Summer 2005
Tableau Software  Seattle, WA
User Interface Development Intern

2002 - 2005
Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.  Palo Alto, CA
Research Consultant

2001 - 2002
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center  Palo Alto, CA
Member of Research Staff

2001
University of California, Psychology Department  Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Researcher

2000 - 2001
University of California, EECS Department  Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate Researcher

Summer 2000
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center  Palo Alto, CA
Undergraduate Research Intern, User Interface Research Group


teaching

Winter 2013
Science, Technology & Society (STS1, Stanford University)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Paula Findlen (History) and Prof. John Willinsky (Educ)

Winter 2013
Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio (CS247, Stanford Computer Science)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Michael Bernstein (CS)

Fall 2012
Data Visualization (CS448B, Stanford Computer Science)

Winter 2012
Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio (CS247, Stanford Computer Science)

Fall 2011
Data Visualization (CS448B, Stanford Computer Science)

Spring 2011
Research Topics in Interactive Data Analysis (CS448G, Stanford Computer Science)

Winter 2011
Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio (CS247, Stanford Computer Science)

Fall 2010
Data Visualization (CS448b, Stanford Computer Science)

Winter 2010
Social Software (CS294h, Stanford Computer Science)

Fall 2009
Data Visualization (CS448b, Stanford Computer Science)

Spring 2009
Research Topics in Human-Computer Interaction (CS376, Stanford Computer Science)

Winter 2009
Data Visualization (CS448b, Stanford Computer Science)

Spring 2006
Visualization (CS294-10, UCB Computer Science)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Maneesh Agrawala

Fall 2005
Information Visualization (IS247, UCB School of Information)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Marti Hearst  Teaching Rating: 6.4/7

Spring 2005
Foundations of New Media (IS146, UCB School of Information)
Graduate Student Instructor with Prof. Marc Davis, Prof. Peter Lyman, and danah boyd


refereed publications

Conference Papers
Topic Model Diagnostics: Assessing Domain Relevance via Topical Alignment, Jason Chuang, Sonal Gupta, Christopher Manning, Jeffrey Heer. To appear, Proc. Intl Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML), Jun 2013.

imMens: Real-time Visual Querying of Big Data, Zhicheng Liu, Biye Jiang, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2013. [28% Acceptance Rate]

Selecting Semantically-Resonant Colors for Data Visualization, Sharon Lin, Julie Fortuna, Chinmay Kulkarni, Maureen Stone, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2013. [28% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Award]

The Efficacy of Human Post-Editing for Language Translation, Spence Green, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher Manning. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Apr 2013. [20% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Award]

Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study, Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology (VAST), Oct 2012. [29% Acceptance Rate, Invited for inclusion in IEEE TVCG Journal, Best Paper Honorable Mention]

GraphPrism: Compact Visualization of Network Structure, Sanjay Kairam, Diana MacLean, Manolis Savva, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces, May 2012.

Profiler: Integrated Statistical Analysis and Visualization for Data Quality Assessment, Sean Kandel, Ravi Parikh, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces, May 2012.

Termite: Visualization Techniques for Assessing Textual Topic Models, Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces, May 2012.

Color Naming Models for Color Selection, Image Editing and Palette Design, Jeffrey Heer, Maureen Stone. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2012. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Interpretation and Trust: Designing Model-Driven Visualizations for Text Analysis, Jason Chuang, Daniel Ramage, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2012. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Strategies for Crowdsourcing Social Data Analysis, Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2012. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Balancing Exertion Experiences, Florian Mueller, Frank Vetere, Martin Gibbs, Darren Edge, Stefan Agamanolis, Jennifer Sheridan, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2012. [23% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Nominee]

D3: Data-Driven Documents, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'11), Oct 2011. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Divided Edge Bundling for Directional Network Data, David Selassie, Brandon Heller, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'11), Oct 2011. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Orion: A System for Modeling, Transformation and Visualization of Multidimensional Heterogeneous Networks, Jeffrey Heer, Adam Perer. IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology (VAST), Oct 2011. [32% Acceptance Rate, Invited to a special edition of Information Visualization Journal]

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), Oct 2011. [25% Acceptance Rate, Notable Paper Award]

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), Oct 2011. [25% Acceptance Rate]

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), Oct 2011. [25% Acceptance Rate]

MUSE: Reviving Memories Using Email Archives, Sudheendra Hangal, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey Heer. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), Oct 2011. [25% Acceptance Rate]

Visualizing Collaboration and Influence in the Open-Source Software Community, Brandon Heller, Eli Marschner, Evan Rosenfeld and Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Mining Software Repositories (MSR), May 2011. [35% Acceptance Rate]

Wrangler: Interactive Visual Specification of Data Transformation Scripts, Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2011. [26% Acceptance Rate]

CommentSpace: Structured Support for Collaborative Visual Analytics, Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Joseph Hellerstein and Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2011. [26% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Nominee]

Groups Without Tears: Mining Social Topologies from Email, Diana MacLean, Sudheendra Hangal, Seng Keat Teh, Monica Lam and Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Feb 2011.

Declarative Language Design for Interactive Visualization, Jeffrey Heer and Michael Bostock. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'10), Oct 2010. [26% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Honorable Mention]

Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data, Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'10), Oct 2010. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Perceptual Guidelines for Creating Rectangular Treemaps, Nicholas Kong, Jeffrey Heer and Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'10), Oct 2010. [26% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Honorable Mention]

Tracing Genealogical Data with TimeNets, Nam Wook Kim, Stuart K. Card, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 241-248, May 2010. [20% Acceptance Rate]

Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 203-212, Apr 2010. [22.0% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Nominee]

Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization, Michael Bostock, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'09), 15(6), pp. 1121-1128, Nov/Dec 2009. [26.2% Acceptance Rate]

Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations, Jeffrey Heer, Nicholas Kong, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1303-1312, Apr 2009. [24.5% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Award]

Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation, Jeffrey Heer, Jock D. Mackinlay, Chris Stolte, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'08), 14(6), pp. 1189-1196, Nov/Dec 2008. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Generalized Selection via Interactive Query Relaxation, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala, Wesley Willett. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 959-968, Apr 2008. [22% Acceptance Rate]

Design Considerations for Collaborative Visual Analytics, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 171-178, Nov 2007. [42% Acceptance Rate, Invited to a special edition of Information Visualization Journal]

Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics, Jeffrey Heer, George G. Robertson. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'07), 13(6), pp. 1240-1247, Nov/Dec 2007. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations, Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'07), 13(6), pp. 1129-1136, Nov/Dec 2007. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1029-1038, Apr 2007. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Momento: Support for Situated Ubicomp Experimentation, Scott Carter, Jennifer Mankoff, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 125-134, Apr 2007. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'06), 12(5), pp. 853-860, Sep/Oct 2006. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Multi-Scale Banking to 45°, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'06), 12(5), pp. 701-708, Sep/Oct 2006. [24% Acceptance Rate]

TimeTree: Exploring Time Changing Hierarchies, Stuart K. Card, Bongwon Suh, Bryan Pendleton, Jeffrey Heer, John W. Bodnar. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 3-10, Oct 2006. [43% Acceptance Rate]

Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster, danah boyd, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. HICSS-39, Hawaii Int'l Conf. on System Sciences, Persistent Conversation Track, Jan 2006. [48% Acceptance Rate]

Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks, Jeffrey Heer, danah boyd. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), pp. 32-39, Oct 2005. [27% Acceptance Rate]

Prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card, James A. Landay. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 421-430, Apr 2005. [25% Acceptance Rate]

DOITrees Revisited: Scalable, Space-Constrained Visualization of Hierarchical Data, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 421-424, May 2004. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Presiding Over Accidents: System Direction of Human Action, Jeffrey Heer, Nathaniel Good, Ana Ramirez, Marc Davis, and Jennifer Mankoff. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 463-470, 2004. [16% Acceptance Rate]

liquid: Context-Aware Distributed Queries, Jeffrey Heer, Alan Newberger, Christopher Beckmann, Jason I. Hong. Proc. UbiComp 2003, 5th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 140-148, Oct 2003. [14% Acceptance Rate]

LumberJack: Intelligent Discovery and Analysis of Web Traffic Composition, Ed H. Chi, Adam Rosien, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. WEBKDD 2002: Web Mining for Usage Patterns and User Profiles, pp. 1-16, Jul 2002. [40% Acceptance Rate]

What Did They Do? Understanding Clickstreams with the WebQuilt Visualization System, Sarah Waterson, Jason I. Hong, Tim Sohn, Jeffrey Heer, Tara Matthews, James A. Landay. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 94-102, 2002. [30% Acceptance Rate]

Separating the Swarm: Categorization Methods for User Access Sessions on the Web, Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 243-250, Apr 2002. [15% Acceptance Rate]

Journal Articles
Identifying Medical Terms in Patient-Authored Text: A Scalable, Crowdsourcing-Based Approach, Diana MacLean, Jeffrey Heer. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, to appear 2013.

Colony life history and lifetime reproductive success of red harvester ant colonies, Krista K. Ingram, Anna Pilko, Jeffrey Heer, Deborah M. Gordon. Journal of Animal Ecology, Jan 2013.

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

Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis, Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman Communications of the ACM, 55(4), pp. 45-54, Apr 2012.

Research Directions in Data Wrangling: Visualizations and Transformations for Usable and Credible Data, Sean Kandel, Jeffrey Heer, Catherine Plaisant, Jessie Kennedy, Frank van Ham, Nathalie Henry Riche, Chris Weaver, Bongshin Lee, Dominique Brodbeck, Paolo Buono. Information Visualization, 10(4), pp. 271-288, Oct 2011.

A Tour through the Visualization Zoo, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky. Communications of the ACM, 53(6), pp. 59-67, Jun 2010.

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. Communications of the ACM, 52(1), pp. 87-97, Jan 2009.

Design Considerations for Collaborative Visual Analytics, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Information Visualization, 7(1), pp. 49-62, 2008.

Does Binding of Synesthetic Color to the Evoking Grapheme Require Attention? Noam Sagiv, Jeffrey Heer, Lynn Robertson. Cortex, 42(2), pp. 232-242, 2006.

WebQuilt: A Proxy-based Approach to Remote Web Usability Testing, Jason I. Hong, Jeffrey Heer, Sarah Waterson, James A. Landay. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 19(3), pp. 263-285, 2001.

Book Chapters
The Design of Sense.us, Jeffrey Heer. In T. Segaran, J. Hammerbacher (eds), Beautiful Data, O'Reilly Media, 2009.

Point, Talk, Publish: Visualization and the Web, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Maneesh Agrawala. In E. Zudilova-Seinstra, T. Adriaansen, R. van Liere (eds), Trends in Interactive Visualisation, Springer, 2008.

Creation and Collaboration: Engaging New Audiences for Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Frank van Ham, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chris Weaver, Petra Isenberg. In Fekete, A. Kerren, C. North, J. T. Stasko (eds), Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation, Springer, 2008.

Short Papers
Designing a Prototype Interface for Visual Communication of Pain, Insun (Amy) Jang, Diana MacLean, Jeffrey Heer. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2013.

Wideband Displays: Mitigating Multiple Monitor Seams, Jock Mackinlay, Jeffrey Heer. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1521-1524, 2004.

All Together Now: Visualizing Local and Remote Actors of Localized Activity, Scott Lederer, Jeffrey Heer. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1107-1110, 2004.

Efficient User Interest Estimation in Fisheye Views, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing systems (CHI), pp. 836-837, 2003.

Workshop Papers
The Stanford Post-Editing Corpus: Collection and Analysis, Spence Green, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning. AMTA 2012 Workshop on Post-editing Technology and Practice, 2012.

An Algorithm and Analysis of Social Topologies from Email and Photo Tags, T. J. Purtell, Diana MacLean, Seng Keat Teh, Sudheendra Hangal, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey Heer. Workshop on Social Network Mining & Analysis, ACM KDD, 2011.

All Friends are not Equal: Using Weights in Social Graphs to Improve Search, Sudheendra Hangal, Diana MacLean, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey Heer. Workshop on Social Networking Mining and Analysis, ACM KDD, 2010.

Evaluating Visualizations to Unearth Behavior and Insight, Jeffrey Heer. Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Information Visualization Workshop, ACM CHI, 2008.

Socializing Visualization, Jeffrey Heer. Social Visualization Workshop, ACM CHI, 2006.

Seeing the Invisible, Jeffrey Heer, Peter Khooshabeh. Workshop on Invisible & Transparent Interfaces, Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), 2004.

Capturing and Analyzing the Web Experience, Jeffrey Heer. Workshop on Automatic Capture, Representation, and Analysis of User Activity, ACM CHI, 2002.

Mining the Structure of User Activity using Cluster Stability, Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. Web Analytics Workshop, SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2002.

Identification of Web User Traffic Composition using Multi-Modal Clustering and Information Scent, Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. Workshop on Web Mining, SIAM Conference on Data Mining, pp. 51-58. Chicago, IL, 2001.

Demos
Social Flows: A System for Mining Social Topologies from Ego-centric Social Networks, Diana MacLean, Sudheendra Hangal, Seng Keat Teh, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2010.

Prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card, James A. Landay. User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2004.

Active Capture: Automatic Direction for Automatic Movies, Marc Davis, Jeffrey Heer, Ana Ramirez. ACM Multimedia, 2003.

Dissertation
Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration for Interactive Visualization, Jeffrey Heer. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, December 2008.


unrefereed publications

Interactive Analysis of Big Data, Jeffrey Heer, Sean Kandel ACM XRDS. September 2012

Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis, Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman ACM Queue. February 2012

A Tour through the Visualization Zoo, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky ACM Queue. May 2010

A Conversation with Jeff Heer, Martin Wattenberg, and Fernanda Viégas, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Queue. March 2010

Dangerous Liaisons, Jeffrey Heer. Ambidextrous Magazine. Issue Four, Summer 2006

Bits, Bäume, und Bilder, Jeffrey Heer. einfach komplex - Bildbäume und Baumbilder in der Wissenschaft. Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, 2005


exhibitions

Apr-Sep 2005
einfach komplex - Bildbäume und Baumbilder in der Wissenschaft
Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
Curators: Andres Janser, Marius Kwint, Barbara Bader
Exhibited images of the Degree-of-Interest Tree browser and other visualizations.

26 Mar 2005
False Profit: LIQUIDATE
False Profit, San Francisco, CA
Interactive installation of the Vizster social network browser.

8 Mar 2012
The Art of Networks
Florida Institute of Technology
Curator: Isabel Meirelles
Exhibition of the Stanford Dissertation Browser.


invited talks

Interactive Data Analysis
27 Jun 2013
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium Asilomar, CA
31 May 2013
DataEDGE, UCB Information School Berkeley, CA
23 May 2013
Visualization: From Data to Discovery, CalTech/JPL Pasadena, CA
25 Jan 2013
Stanford InfoLab Seminar Palo Alto, CA
9 Jul 2012
GraphLab Workshop San Francisco, CA
20 Jun 2012
Sony Corporation San Diego, CA
29 May 2012
University of Konstanz Konstanz, Germany
19 Apr 2012
UNC Charlotte Charlotte, NC
4 Apr 2012
University of Michigan, School of Information Ann Arbor, MI
2 Apr 2012
University of Michigan, CSE Ann Arbor, MI
29 Mar 2012
University of Washington, CSE Seattle, WA

imMens: Real-Time Visual Querying of Big Data
28 Jan 2013
Intel Corporation Santa Clara, CA

Scale out, Open up, Tell it straight: Challenges for visual data analysis
16 Feb 2012
Sequence, Inc. San Francisco, CA
4 Oct 2011
Keynote Address, WikiSym Conference. Mountain View, CA

The Legacy of George Robertson, in 3 Parts
25 Oct 2011
IEEE VisWeek Conferences. Providence, RI

Interactive Tools for Data Transformation and Visualization
12 Jan 2012
Hewlett-Packard Labs. Palo Alto, CA
15 Oct 2011
AIGA Pivot Design Conference. Phoenix, AZ
18 May 2011
IS&T Colloquium, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Greenbelt, MD
10 Mar 2011
BayCHI. Palo Alto, CA
22 Oct 2010
NPUC, IBM Almaden Research Centers. Almaden, CA
15 Oct 2010
LinkedIn. Mountain View, CA

Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization
3 Aug 2011
Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association. Miami Beach, FL

Data Visualisation and Social Cognition
8 Jun 2011
The Economist Ideas Economy - Information. Santa Clara, CA

Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
22 Mar 2011
The New York Times. New York, NY
25 Feb 2011
NICAR Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference. Raleigh, NC

Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception
19 Jul 2010
SF Crowdsourcing Work Meetup. San Francisco, CA

Designing Languages for Data Visualization
12 Jul 2010
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. Redmond, WA
27 Feb 2010
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium. Winter Park, CO

A Brief History of Data Visualization
19 Dec 2011
Cheskin Added Value. Redwood Shores, CA
23 Jun 2010
Lucasfilm. San Francisco, CA
22 Apr 2010
HCI Seminar, University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign, IL
13 Mar 2010
Stanford Workshop on Diagrammatic Reasoning. Palo Alto, CA
1 Feb 2010
Stanford Cognition and Language Research Workshop. Palo Alto, CA
6 Mar 2009
Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

Interactive Data Analysis
3 Jun 2010
Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab Retreat. Santa Cruz, CA

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Social Data Analysis
30 Jul 2009
Computational Journalism Workshop, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Stanford, CA
30 Jun 2009
SIGMOD Invited Session on HCI with Information. Providence, RI
12 Mar 2009
IBM Almaden Research Center. Almaden, CA
5 Jan 2009
Keynote Address, Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR). Monterey, CA

Commentary on 'Living Laboratories'
7 Feb 2009
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium. Winter Park, CO

Reflections on Visualization System Design
4 Dec 2008
VisMaster Workshop on Visual Analytics Software Architectures. Paris, France

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Collaborative Information Visualization
3 Dec 2008
Paris HCI/InfoVis Seminar. Paris, France
25 Sep 2008
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. Giheung-gu, South Korea
17 Apr 2008
Pixar. Emeryville, CA
15 Apr 2008
Nokia Research Lab. Palo Alto, CA
18 Mar 2008
University of Toronto. Toronto, ON
11 Mar 2008
University of Washington. Seattle, WA
6 Mar 2008
Palo Alto Research Center, Inc. Palo Alto, CA
27 Feb 2008
Brown University. Providence, RI
25 Feb 2008
MIT Media Lab. Cambridge, MA
21 Feb 2008
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, GA
11 Feb 2008
Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA
4 Feb 2008
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA
31 Jan 2008
Microsoft Research. Seattle, WA
16 Nov 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cambridge, MA
15 Nov 2007
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA
14 Nov 2007
HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA.
26 Sep 2007
PowerSet, Inc. San Francisco, CA
29 Jun 2007
Yahoo! Research Berkeley Brain Jam. Berkeley, CA
23 Jun 2007
O'Reilly FOO Camp. Sebastopol, CA
19 Jun 2007
Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA
28 May 2007
Human-Centered Issues in Information Visualization. Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany
12 Apr 2007
DUB Seminar, University of Washington. Seattle, WA

Sensemaking and Information Visualization Panel
23 Feb 2008
Symposium on Computation and Journalism, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, GA

Visualization
6 Mar 2006
CME340: Computational Methods in Data Mining. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA
25 Apr 2005
CME340: Computational Methods in Data Mining. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks
14 Feb 2006
BayCHI: The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI. Palo Alto, CA

Presiding Over Accidents: Techniques for Designing Directive Systems
14 Oct 2005
Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

Exploring Enron: A Sketch of Visual Data Mining of E-Mail Archives
2 Jun 2005
Email Archive Visualization Workshop, HCIL University of Maryland. College Park, MD

190 Lines of Code
5 May 2005
050505: Zoning and Grinding. Center for New Media, University of California. Berkeley, CA

Prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization
9 Oct 2004
InfoVis 2004 Workshop on Information Visualization Software Architectures. Austin, TX

Undergraduate HCI Projects at UC Berkeley
8 Feb 2000
BayCHI: The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI. Palo Alto, CA


media coverage

24 May 2013
Steering clear of the iceberg: three ways we can fix the data-credibility crisis in science. GigaOM.

4 Oct 2012
Why Trifacta is teaching humans and data to work together. GigaOM.

1 Oct 2012
Visualization for scientific discovery. Flowing Data.

26 Sep 2012
Data Visualization: Trudging through the Digital Road to New Scientific Discovery. Scientific American Blog.

28 Jun 2012
Interview with Jeff Heer. Data Stories.

27 Jun 2012
UW recruits superstars of computer-science world. Seattle Times.

27 Jun 2012
Love and marriage: How the UW is making bets on the brains of big data and machine learning. GeekWire.

15 Mar 2012
Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past. MIT Technology Review. (Discusses MUSE.)

5 Mar 2012
Taxonomy for interactive visual analysis. FlowingData.

2 Mar 2012
A Taxonomy of Visualization Techniques. Slashdot.

9 Nov 2011
Adobe falters with plan to abandon Flash technology on mobile devices. KTVU Channel 2.

15 Oct 2011
MUSE to sift the emails of yesteryear. New Scientist.

7 Jun 2011
Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next year. O'Reilly Radar.

26 May 2011
DataWrangler for your data formatting needs. FlowingData.

19 Apr 2011
22 free tools for data visualization and analysis. ComputerWorld.

18 Feb 2011
Facebook App Reveals Your Social Cliques. MIT Technology Review. (Discusses SocialFlows.)

8 Feb 2011
Strata 2011: Data as Democracy. Information Aesthetics. (Discusses the Stanford Dissertation Browser.)

4 Feb 2011
Wrangler. Metafilter.com.

3 Feb 2011
The Stanford Visualization Group Debuts Visual Tool for Cleaning Up Data. Read Write Web.

7 Dec 2010
Similarities between PhD dissertations. Flowing Data.

16 Nov 2010
Humanities Scholars Embrace Digital Technology. New York Times. (Features the Republic of Letters visualization built by my visualization students in collaboration with the Stanford Spatial History Lab.)

27 Sep 2010
7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College: Writing for New Forms. Wired Magazine.

7 Sep 2010
Journalism in the Age of Data. Documentary by Geoff McGhee, 2009-10 Stanford Knight Journalism Fellow.

26 Aug 2010
The Data Democracy. UCSC Science Notes 2010.

2 Aug 2010
Beautiful Data (book review, see segment on Chapter 12). Slashdot.

4 Jun 2010
Beyond the Pie Chart: Creating New Visualization Tools to Reveal Treasures in the Data. UX Magazine.

25 Feb 2010
Show me: New ways of visualising data. The Economist.

Dec 2009
Programming Language Enables Creative Visualization. IEEE Computer, 42(12), p. 25.

21 Sep 2009
Chart of the Day II. Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish.

19 Sep 2009
The Rise and Fall of the Secretary. Matthew Yglesias, ThinkProgress.org.

28 Aug 2009
Jeffrey Heer: Easy-to-use tools allow people to present data in creative and interesting ways. MIT Technology Review TR 35.

25 Jun 2009
Simpler Data Visualization. MIT Technology Review.

21 May 2009
Researchers visualize complex data. Stanford Daily.

1 Dec 2008
Sense.us: Towards a more social 'social visualization'. Sluijs, J.P. First Monday, 13(12).

16 Jun 2008
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion. Abelson, H., Ledeen, K., Lewis, H. Addison-Wesley.

10 Mar 2008
Flare: Visualization Tools with Adobe Flash. Adobe Developer Connection.

27 Feb 2008
Computational Journalism Symposium. Information Aesthetics.

25 Feb 2008
Journalists and Technologists: An Uneasy Courtship. Rich Gordon, PBS Idea Lab.

3 Mar 2006
Numb3rs. Season 2, Episode 16: "Protest", CBS Television.

30 Jan 2006
Science Puts Enron E-Mail to Use. Wired News.

16 Jun 2005
500.000 E-Mails erzählen Geschichte der Enron-Pleite. Der Spiegel.

13 Jun 2005
Exploring Enron. Metafilter.com.

7 Jun 2005
Social network analyzer for Enron's emails. BoingBoing.net.


professional activities

Technical Papers Chair
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2013

Program Committee
AAAI Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2013
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2011-2012
ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2009, 2012
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2007-2009, 2011-2012
IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010
EuroVis 2010-2013
Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2009
Int'l Conf on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV) 2007

Posters Chair
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2011-2012

Publications Chair
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2008-2010

Workshop Organizer
CHI 2013 Workshop on Many People, Many Eyes with K. Reinecke, D. Flatla, E. Solovey, C. Gutwin & K. Gajos
CHI 2011 Workshop on Data Collection by the People, for the People with C. Robson, S. Kandel, & J. Pierce
Stanford Media-X 2009 Workshop on Visualization for Collective, Connective & Distributed Intelligence with B. Devarco & Katy Börner
Stanford Media-X 2009 Workshop on Data Visualization: Theory and Practice with D. Kasik & J. Gerth
CHI 2008 Social Data Analysis Workshop with F. B. Viégas, M. Wattenberg, & M. Agrawala
Berkeley Visualization Workshop, 12 May 2006 with M. Agrawala

Instructor
VLDB 2009 Visualization + Social Data Analysis Tutorial with J. Hellerstein
SIGGRAPH 2008 Computation + Journalism Course with I. Essa, B. Stenger, M. Agrawala, E. Ulken, & C. Sladden

Reviewer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2004-2013
ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2007-2012
ACM SIGGRAPH 2008-2013
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009-2010
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions (TOCHI) 2009
Human-Computer Interaction Journal 2010
Information Visualization Journal 2010-2013
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2008-2012
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2005-2012
IEEE Visualization (Vis) 2006-2011
IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2006-2010
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2004-2010
IEEE Pacific Visualization 2008-2010
EuroVis 2009-2013
World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2009
Graphics Interface (GI) 2006, 2009-2010
Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics) 2006
Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2003
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) 2007
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR) 2008

Committees
Graduate Admissions, Computer Science Dept, Stanford, 2009-2012
Graduate Admissions, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley 2004, 2006, 2008

Member
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)


awards

2013
EuroVis Best Paper Award
ACM CHI Best Paper Award

2012
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
IEEE VAST Best Paper Honorable Mention
ACM CHI Best Paper Nominee

2011
ACM UIST Notable Paper Award
ACM CHI Best Paper Nominee

2010
IEEE InfoVis Best Paper Honorable Mention (x2)
ACM CHI Best Paper Nominee

2009
MIT Technology Review TR35, Innovators Under the Age of 35
C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley
ACM CHI Best Paper Award

2006
Microsoft Graduate Fellowship
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

2004
Outstanding Performance Award, A3I NIMD Team, PARC, Inc.

2002
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (declined)
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Finalist

2001
Warren Y. Dere Engineering Design Award, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley
Honors Degree Program, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley