Biography
Biography: Robert S Laramee
Abstract
Some people believe that we live in the age of information. I believe it’s much more accurate to say we live in the age of data. With the rapid advancement of big data storage technologies and the ever-decreasing costs of hardware, our ability to derive and store data is unprecedented. However, a large gap remains between our ability to generate and store large collections of complex, time-dependent data and our ability to derive useful information and knowledge from it. Data visualization leverages our most powerful sense, vision, in order to derive knowledge and gain insight into large, multivariate data sets that describe complicated and often time-dependent behavior. This talk presents data mining from the perspective of data visualization with three very different applications: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), marine biology and rugby, showcasing some of visualizations strengths, weaknesses and goals. Data visualization is critical to successful data mining and extracting knowledge and insight from big data.
