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Program

Schedule

Monday February 23
8:00	Coffee and Registration
9:15-9:30	Nancy Reid: Welcome (SLIDES)
9:30-10:30	Hadley Wickham, R Studio (SLIDES) # Pipelines for big data
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-12:00	Mariah Hamel, Plotly Inc.
12:00-2:00	Lunch
2:00-3:00	Ramnath Vaidyanathan, McGill Interactive Visualizations from R
3:00-3:30	Tea
3:30-4:30	Jenny Bryan, University of British Columbia (SLIDES) New tools and workflows for data analysis
4:30	Cash bar reception
Tuesday February 24
9:30-10:30	Susan Holmes, Stanford University Transformations before Visualization of Heterogeneous Data
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Dianne Cook, Iowa State University (Presented by Andee Kaplan, Samantha Tyner, Carson Sievert, Xiaoyue Cheng, Barret Schloerke) A Kaleidoscope of Statistical Graphics Research Projects
12:00-2:00	Lunch break
2:00-3:00	Michael Friendly, York University Big Data and Big Questions: Vignettes and lessons from the history of data visualization
3:00-3:30	Tea break
3:30-4:30	Ta Chiraphadhanakul, Facebook Inc. Visualizing Big Data at Facebook
Wednesday February 25
9:30-10:30	Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary Information Visualization: Exploring New Options
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Ekaterina Smirnova, University of Wyoming Visualization of Multidimensional Data with Different Structures
12:00-2:00	Lunch break
2:00-3:00	Christopher Collins, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (SLIDES) Semantics and Sentiment in Visual Text Analytics
3:00-3:30	Tea break
4:30 *BA1130	Blyth Lecture Series 2015 David Donoho, Stanford University Public Lecture: What's the Big Deal about "Big Data"? Emergent Phenomena in High-Dimensional Data Analysis This event takes place at BA1130 (Bahen Center). Reception will precede the talk at 3:30 p.m. in the Department of Mathematics lounge (40 St. George St., 6th floor.)
Thursday February 26
9:30-10:30	Katy Börner, Indiana University (SLIDES) Envisioning Science, Technology, and Innovation
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Bowei Xi, Purdue University Divide and Recombine (D&R) for Larger and More Complex Data
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:30	Alex Goncalves, Columbia University (SLIDES) New Trends in Data Visualization and Journalism
2:30-3:30	Remco Chang, Tufts University Big Data Visual Analytics: A User-Centric Approach
3:30-4:00	Tea break
4:10	Blyth Lecture Series 2015 David Donoho, Stanford University Lecture II (Fields Institute Room 230)
Friday February 27
3:10	Note: Blyth Lecture Series 2015 David Donoho, Stanford University Lecture III (Fields Institute Room 230)