Learning to play the piano is a deeply rewarding journey, but it comes with a notoriously steep hurdle: sight-reading. Sight-reading is the ability to read and play a piece of sheet music fluently on the first look, much like reading a book out loud in your native language. While essential  ...Read More

Navigating university can be overwhelming. Between picking prerequisites, balancing demanding course loads, and adjusting to campus life, many students find themselves in academic jeopardy. While academic advisors play a crucial role in keeping students on track to graduate, their time is limited  ...Read More

Readers often find themselves lost in the sprawling geography of a great novel. While authors use real-world locations to set the scene, following a story that jumps between cities or across continents can be a challenge for even the most attentive reader. As Franco Moretti discusses in his work  ...Read More

We’ve all been there: you’re trying to use a new piece of software, but the buttons don’t make sense, the data looks like a confusing mess, and you’re starting to feel your blood boil. Usually, computers are oblivious to our “human” moments. They sit there silently while we get more and more  ...Read More

Have you ever tried to read a complex data visualization only to find the information buried under a mess of overlapping text or font so tiny you need a magnifying glass? Whether it’s a packed treemap or a busy map, fitting long words into small spaces is a classic headache in the world of data  ...Read More

In this blog post, we take a look back at an older paper of ours titled Parallel Tag Clouds to Explore and Analyze Faceted Text Corpora, and explore how it has influenced data visualization research since it was published. Parallel Tag Clouds was presented at the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics  ...Read More

Visual Analytics pairs human reasoning with computational power to explore massive, complex datasets. Yet, because communication between people and software is rarely seamless, users often spend valuable time in frustrating trial-and-error analysis loops. To bridge these knowledge gaps, modern  ...Read More