Today I gave a talk on sentiment and semantics in visual text analytics at CANVAS 2014, the Canadian Visual Analytics Summer School. The summer school…
We have just launched a new visualization of emotion as expressed on Twitter. Visitors to SentimentState can use the tool to explore the overall positive/negative score…
Congratulations to Wesley Taylor for the best raytracing project for CSCI 3090 for Winter 2014. Wesley’s rendering includes the basic requirements, plus reflection, refraction, soft…
The Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology) recently announced that I will be the new Canada Research Chair in Linguistic Information Visualization…
Dr. Christopher Collins is helping to organize the 2014 Workshop on Interactive Language Learning, Visualization, and Interfaces, to be held at ACL in Baltimore in…
Congratulations to vialab members Rafael Veras Guimarães and Brittany Kondo who have been awarded the Italian Cultural Centre of Durham scholarship for PhD studies ($5,000)…
Rafael Veras Guimarães successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis “An Investigation of Semantic Patterns in Passwords”. His research investigated semantic patterns in passwords, including published work…
Congratulations to Erik Paluka on presenting a top-notch undergraduate honours thesis. Erik is continuing this work over the summer of 2012. Entitled “Enhancing Tandem Language…
Masahiko Itoh and colleagues at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo have published a paper at Pacific Vis 2012 [PDF] analyzing the temporal changes in…
Bubble Sets is a visualization technique for dynamically creating ‘bubble’ borders around sets of visual objects, while avoiding inclusion of items not in the set.…