14 - 19 OCTOBER, 2012. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA

2012 VIS Special Sessions

VAST Special Session: Visual Analytics in Practice
Date & Time : Wednesday, October 17 10:30 am - 12:10 pm
Location : Grand Ballroom B
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VAST Special Session: Visual Analytics in Practice

Jason Alcock, from Appature, who will talk about visualization in the context of medical marketing.

Jonathan A. Schwabish, from the Congressional Budget Office, talking about visualization for government.

Kevin Lynagh, from Kerning Labs, talking about HTML5 bioinformatics and wind energy visualizations.

Shahtab Wahid, from Bloomberg, talking about data analytics for stock traders.

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INFOVIS Special Session: Tales from the Trenches
Date & Time : Thursday, October 18 10:30 am - 12:10 pm
Location : Grand Ballroom C
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INFOVIS Special Session: Tales from the Trenches

Jon Hopson, from Bungie, who will talk about game player visualization based on telemetry and other data sources.

Kim Rees, from Periscopic, who will talk about building visualizations for non-profits.

Lori Williams, from Tableau, who will talk about visualizing how users use a popular piece of desktop/web software (Tableau Public.)

Peter Speyer, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, who will talk about visualizing health information.

Industry Presentations: A View for the Future
Date & Time : Wednesday, October 17 08:30 am - 10:10 am
Location : Willow AB
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Industry Presentations: A View for the Future

Senior researchers from major players in the commercial visualization space discuss their vision of the next few years of information, data, and scientific visualization. Hear an industry perspective on important issues, upcoming challenges, and their visions for the future of visualization.

Frank van Ham, Researcher at IBM Netherlands.

John David Miller, Principal Engineer at Intel.

Will Schroeder, CEO Kitware.

Jock Mackinlay, Senior Director of Visual Analysis at Tableau.

SCIVIS Special Session: Four Views on Visualization in Science and Education
Date & Time : Tuesday, October 16 10:30 am - 12:10 pm
Location : Grand Ballroom D
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SCIVIS Special Session: Four Views on Visualization in Science and Education

This venue provides an opportunity for the visualization community to hear from and interact with practicing scientists and educators who have used visualization in their work and who are looking for visualization help with future projects. Each of them will give examples of how visualization has been helpful to them in the past and a description of the kind of data sets and questions they deal with in their field.

Steffen Bass, Physicist from Duke, who will talk about visualization needs in high-energy particle collision simulations.

Kerry Bloom, Biologist from UNC, who will talk about visualization needs in the study of the yeast mitotic spindle.

David Feng, Computer Scientist for the Allen Brain Institute, who will talk about visualization needs in multivariate 3D gene-expression data.

Gail Jones, Science Educator from NCSU, who will talk about visualization needs in science education.