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FlowingData - Thoughts on the HCIL symposium

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Contents: Thoughts on the HCIL symposium Thoughts on the HCIL symposium May 27, 2012 12:11 am  •  Permalink Last week I attended the 29th annual symposium at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland. The HCIL is famous for a little thing known as the treemap, created by the founder of the lab, Ben Shneiderman. It's famous for lots of other visualizations and people too, but it's best known for the treemap. The annual symposium is put on by the lab to showcase it's latest and greatest research. I sometimes forget that HCIL focuses on things other than visualization, so I had to sit, confused, through a few talks before I realized they weren't about visualization ("Where's the viz?" I was thinking). I won't fault them for not being all about dataviz; the Social Network Analysis Strategies for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse by lab Director, Jen Golbeck, was thoroughly entertaining and insightful work regarding social networks. HCIL is very kind and generous in that it puts all of its 25+ years of papers and talks online, and many of its projects are open source. You can also go to each individual's page (faculty/student) to find every talk and paper they've completed. My favorite talks were: Event Flow by the hilarious Megan Monroe Reflections of Ourselves: Sensing and Feedback to Inform Everyday Human Behavior by Jon Froehlich Automatic translation of 2D textbook figures into 3D tactile models for blind students in STEM education by Tom Yeh (make a shorter title, Tom!) PairFinder: Identifying and Measuring Temporal Associations from Temporal Event Sequences by Hsueh-Chien Cheng TreeVersity: Interactive Visualization for Comparing two Trees using Topology and Node Value Differences by John Alexis Guerra-Gomez Motif Simplification by Cody Dunne (which I'll be reviewing in detail tomorrow). The work coming out of HCIL is inspirational as well as practical. The lab clearly works from the premise that they can have a direct impact on everyday lives in a very meaningful way. I also have to give a shout out to Justin Grimes, PhD candidate, for giving me a great tour, long walk, and fantastic discussion on the quantified self, quantified babies, and outdated medical devices. More to read: Tornado tracks Even simple charts can tell a story Which nations consume the most water? More infographic software Image compositing in TileMill  follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 FlowingData, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on FlowingData. Our mailing address is: FlowingData PO Box 3381 Livermore, CA 94550 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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New prostate cancer screening guidelines face a tough sell, study suggests Posted: 26 May 2012 04:13 PM PDT Recent recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force advising elimination of routine prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer in healthy men are likely to encounter serious pushback from primary care physicians, according to results of a new survey.

Tongue analysis software uses ancient Chinese medicine to warn of disease Posted: 26 May 2012 04:13 PM PDT Researchers have developed computer software that automatically analyzes images of the tongue, one of the measures used to classify the overall physical status of the body, or zheng, in Chinese traditional medicine.

Skp2 activates cancer-promoting, glucose-processing Akt Posted: 26 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT E3 ligase's role makes it target for defeating Herceptin resistance, stifling cancer's preferred diet.

It's in the genes: Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower Posted: 26 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower.

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• New prostate cancer screening guidelines face a tough sell, study suggests
• Tongue analysis software uses ancient Chinese medicine to warn of disease
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• Women trying to have babies also need to think about circadian clock

New prostate cancer screening guidelines face a tough sell, study suggests Posted: 26 May 2012 04:13 PM PDT Recent recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force advising elimination of routine prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer in healthy men are likely to encounter serious pushback from primary care physicians, according to results of a new survey.

Tongue analysis software uses ancient Chinese medicine to warn of disease Posted: 26 May 2012 04:13 PM PDT Researchers have developed computer software that automatically analyzes images of the tongue, one of the measures used to classify the overall physical status of the body, or zheng, in Chinese traditional medicine.

Skp2 activates cancer-promoting, glucose-processing Akt Posted: 26 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT E3 ligase's role makes it target for defeating Herceptin resistance, stifling cancer's preferred diet.

Why humans don't smell as well as other mammals: No new neurons in the human olfactory bulb Posted: 24 May 2012 06:22 AM PDT The human olfactory bulb – a structure in the brain that processes sensory input from the nose – differs from that of other mammals in that no new neurons are formed in this area after birth. The discovery is based on the age-determination of the cells using the carbon-14 method, and might explain why the human sense of smell is normally much worse than that of other animals.

Women trying to have babies also need to think about circadian clock Posted: 23 May 2012 05:07 PM PDT A new study shows that the biological clock is not the only clock women trying to conceive should consider. The circadian clock needs attention, too. The findings draw a clear line between disrupted circadian rhythms and reproductive physiology. The researchers are the first to show that if you disrupt the circadian clock environmentally in mice, with repeated changes in their light-dark cycles, there are problems with pregnancy outcomes. And the effect can be dramatic.

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The Cynical Girl: Day Off

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It's in the genes: Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower Posted: 26 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower.

Maya collapse: Trade patterns for crucial substance played key role Posted: 23 May 2012 10:55 AM PDT Shifts in exchange patterns provide a new perspective on the fall of inland Maya centers in Mesoamerica approximately 1,000 years ago. This major historical process is sometimes referred to as the "Maya collapse."

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