The Master Algorithm and Immersive Analytics

The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos [1] is easily misjudged. The book is not an introductory text in data science since beginners will not be able to follow the author’s reasoning. Further, the book is also not for the faint hearted or the weak minded in data...

IA Blogs to Be Written – Help!

Immersive Analytics touches on so many areas and disciplines. And, so much is happening in those areas every week! Therefore, there are so many IA blogs to be written! Help! The IA community needs 10-20 regular bloggers who commit to one blog per month. We may be able...

IEEE VR2016 Workshop on Immersive Analytics

IEEE VR2016 Virtual Reality Conference is March 19-23 in Greenville, SC. As part of the program, the first Workshop on Immersive Analytics is being held on Sunday afternoon, March 20, and consist of: “a series of invited presentations by leading visualization,...

Experiencing Analytics

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” A. Einstein While investigating the vigorous stirring of scikit-Learn with Unity3D, I am struggling to maintain a clear goal and avoid a chaotic jumble of assorted technologies. Einstein’s quote above...

IA Status – Week 5

Three new blogs during Weeks 4 and 5: Wanted: Visually Impaired Data Scientist – Job ad spoof to make the point that interactive data visualization needs more sonification. Brief review of research. Could we mature this technology to have data vis tools without...

Workshop by Edward Tufte

I attended Prof. Edward Tufte (or ET for short) workshop on Presenting Data and Information in Denver on July 31, 2015. Since I attended his workshop decades before, my motivation was to observe what was “new and innovative” in data visualization. To my surprise, I was rewarded with the “old and enduring” in classic ET style.

Wanted: Visually Impaired Data Scientist

Large global corporation seeks to augment their Data Science team with a visually impaired data scientist who has a proven record of sensing patterns in big data via audio and tactile analytics. The person will be responsible for developing a library of acoustic...