Professor Donna Cox

Director Visualization/Experimental TechnologiesNational Center for Supercomputing Applications

School of Art and DesignUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

cox@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Renaissance Teams 1986: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Experts

Glyphs and Symbolic Metaphoric Representations of Data

Cox and Ellisman, 1988

First Data-Driven Visualization of NSFnet

Copyright Cox and Patterson

Interactively analyze data in direct collaboration with scientists/decision experts

Using Interactive tools directly on raw

and derivative terabytes of data

The color and glyph legend

Derivative data analysis, feature extraction, metaphor mapping, color tables, camera: with

science experts and then…….

Viewing as many dynamics as possible, at the same time to give overall qualitative affect

Real-time Data-driven Visual MetaphorsTracking locations of people and interests

Dynamic Bar Graph & Map “How does your conferenceGrow”

conventional to unconventional

American Museum of Natural History Hayden Planetarium, New York City

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Remote Virtual Collaboration:Illinois to NYC

NCSA CAVEVirtual Director Software

IndividualDesktops

Renderingfor Dome Show on

linux cluster

Hayden Digital DomeNew York City

Internet 2

Finished Ultra high definition digital frames to Hayden

Visual Knowledge Discovery

Stream Data Analysis

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Rule Discovery