Description:

In recent years, the amount of research data acquired from real world phenomena or generated through supercomputer simulations has increased exponentially. Without the right tools, making sense of all this information can be challenging and time-consuming. Interactive Visualization is one of the best ways to explore and interpret these large datasets, rapidly turning raw data into insight.

Alessandro Febretti is a Senior Interactive Visualization Specialist at Northwestern University and a Ph.D. Candidate at UIC's Electronic Visualization Lab. He worked on data processing and visualization for the NASA ENDURANCE project and was part of the research teams developing the OmegaDesk 2D/3D workstation and the CAVE2 large scale immersive system. He is into virtual reality systems, interactive visualization and human-computer interaction. In this toolkit, Alessandro will discuss what makes a visualization tool good (or bad!) and will present examples of how visualization could help you in your next project.