Interdisciplinary research lab in data visualization and HCI at the University of Edinburgh.
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Teaching - Outreach
Projects/Tools - Student Projects
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The VisHub is an interdisciplinary research lab and hub for teaching, collaboration, and outreach around data visualization hosted by the Institute for Design Informatics and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. We research creative methods for interactive, exploratory and explanatory data visualizations across domains and environments (e.g., screen, physical, immersion). Our goal is to make data visualization and data analytics understandable by everyone. Find out more about our research and outreach below and don’t hesitate to get in touch.
News
- Hiring a visualization designer / workshop facilitator for a project on building a UK-wide Co2 emission-reduction Co-Benefits atlas. Starting now untli July 2025.
- Weloming Dorkey Kaufmann in our group!
- 4 full papers and 1 VISAPP paper accepted to IEEE VIS.
Hiring for a visualization researcher / designer / developer for March-June 2024.Hiring for a permanent teaching position at the intersection of data, design and technology.- We are hosting the international Information+ conference on information design and data visualization in Edinburgh in November 2023.
- Join us for a PhD and check our topics
- Lara Johnson and Rea Michalopoulou joining us as PhD students.
- 3 Full papers accepted for IEEE VIS 2022, two of which have won honorable mentions!!
- Vistorian Updated Version launched (Jan 2022): The Vistorian network visualization platform comes with an new wizard making data upload easier. Visit the Vistorian and our training resources on http://vistorian.net.
- 2 full papers accepted for ACM CHI 2022!!
- Open PhD positions (Dec 2021): Check at Positions/PhD and get in touch with Uta Hinrichs and Ben Bach.
- 4 IEEE VIS papers (Oct 2021): VisHub involved in 4 full papers and 2 workshops at IEEE VIS 2021: Workshop on VisActivities and Workshop on Visualization for Digital Humanities VIS4DH. Check the VIS papers here.
- Corona Moments Launched (October 2021): We just launched a visualization as a retrospective on the pandemic. Please, help our research by exploring the interface and participating in the research: corona memories (In collaboration with the Urban Complexity Lab)
- Uta Hinrichs joining as Reader (September 2021): Uta Hinrichs joins the VisHub as a Reader. Welcome Uta!!!
Research Topics & Projects
Dashboards: Studying and designing dashboards for a range of applications, including peace analytics, learning analytics, energy, public health..
Visualization Tools: Tools for designing and developing (interactive) visualizations for exploration and communication..
Visualization Literacy and Education: Designing visualization activities and teaching resources for education with visualization..
Network Visualization: We design, implement, and evaluate novel interactive visualizations to visualize multivariate networks with temporal and geographical aspects, such as social networks or transportation networks..
Visualizations in the Context of Covid19: Providing visualizations support to tackle a pandemie..
Data Comics: Data Comics combine visual language and narrative patterns from traditional comics to tell expressive stories with data and visaulization. We explore this exciting medium and develop workshops and guiding material.
Geographic Visualization: Survey on geospatial networks. [geonetworks.github.io](https://geonetworks.github.io)..
Immersive Analytics: Designing visualization activities and teaching resources for education with visualization..
Peace & Conflict Analysis: Providing visualizations and analytical capabilities to track, explore, and communicate data around peace and conflict..
Text Analysis for Clinical Guidelines: Applying a combination of natural language processing and data visualisation to UK hospital guidelines for treating COVID-19 patients..
Visualizing Cultural Collection: Selected projects on visualizing cultural collections..
Engagement with Visualization: Understanding the public's engagement with data visualizations..
Community Activities
Join our mailing list focusing on data visualization in Edinburgh, Scotland, the UK and beyond. The group is open to everyone and aims to share news, events, discussions, jobs, etc.
Online Course Data Visualization for Professionals
A 10-week long online course on data visualization for working professionals. The course is build around lectures, live tutorials, talks, Q&A sessions, individual check-in sessions with the course organizers, and project work. Each participant can join with their own data set and develop their own visualization project along the structured guidance and feedback along the 10 weeks.
The data fair is an event that brings together our Master students in Design Informatics from the University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics and College of Art) and external partners (you!). We invite external partners to share their real-world data with our students, collaborate on data analysis and visualization, and ideally end up with a project that you can share publicly.
The monthly data vis meetup in Edinburgh, co-organized by the VisHub, open to everyone and featuring talks about visualization. Currently 1200+ members.
The Chart Clinic is an open drop-in session, once per month, for everyone to ask for advice on their visualizations. The clinic is staffed alternating with different staff from the VisHub.