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VISUALIZATION – A Catalyst for Communication, a Conduit for Collaboration and Participation [email protected] XSEDE14 July 17, 2014 Atlanta, GA Vetria L. Byrd, PhD
VISUALIZATION – A Catalyst for Communication, a Conduit for Collaboration and Participation
XSEDE14
July 17, 2014
Atlanta, GA
Vetria L. Byrd, PhD
About Me
What I have done
• Computer Science
– BS, MS, PhD
– Focus: Bioinformatics
• Biomedical Engineering
– MSBME
– Focus: Medical Imaging
My current role
• Director of Advanced
Visualization at Clemson
University
• Visualization Scientist
• REU Site Coordinator
What does
visualization mean?
What is the purpose
of visualization?
Why is visualization
important?
1st CRA-W/CDC Broadening Participation in Visualization WorkshopClemson University, Clemson South Carolina
February 10 – 11, 2014
Visualization
• Fundamental in understanding
data from all aspects of
research and scholarship
From Simple
http://www.tableausoftware.com/solutions/data-visualization
To Complex
Rendering done using ParaView
“The purpose of
visualization
is “insight”,
not pictures.”~Ben Shneiderman
Mission
“Enable researchers to gain
keen insight into their data
by equipping them with
tools and resources that will
allow for visualizing the
expected, and discovering
the unexpected in their
data.”
Agent of “Insight”
Participation
Collaboration
CATALYST FOR
COMMUNICATION
Visualization
Funded by NSF Award Number 1247198
Visualization created by Christian Weeks, Data Visualization Intern, Clemson Computing and Information Technology, Clemson University
Funded by NSF Award Number 1247198
CONDUIT FOR
COLLABORATION
Visualization
Collaboration with Clemson
Faculty, Students and Staff
– Richard Miller (Mechanical
Engineering), Justin
(Student), Jerry Tessendorf
(School of Computing,
Digital Production Arts),
Vetria Byrd (Clemson, CCIT)
Surrounding Universities
– Jeannette Myers
– Francis Marion University
Simulation of Colliding
Galaxies: Sagittarius Dwarf
and The Milky Way
Simulation of
combustion of
hydrogen and oxygen
The Visualization Experience
• 10 Research Faculty
• 10 Students
• 1 Summer
• 8 Weeks
• Paid Research
• Interdisciplinary
Funded by NSF ACI Award 1359223, Vetria L. Byrd, PI
REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Collaborative Data Visualization
Genetics and BiochemistryGeophysicsSociologyMolecular Modeling
and SimulationInorganic ChemistryComputer ScienceParks Recreation Tourism Management
Digital HumanitiesAnthropology and Sociology
Biological SciencesSchool of Education
Electrical and Computing Engineering
Physical Chemistry
Plant Population and Community Ecology
Social Media, Social networks
REU Site Funded by NSF ACI Award 1359223, Vetria L. Byrd, PI
http://citi.clemson.edu/viz/reu
REU Site Funded by NSF ACI Award 1359223, Vetria L. Byrd, PI
Digital Humanities
Molecular Modeling and Simulation Biological Sciences
Inorganic Chemistry
Visualization
• Visualization plays a significant
role in the exploration and
understanding of data across all
disciplines
Universal Goal• Gaining insight into the complex
relationships that exist within data.
• The need to diversify a field with such far reaching influences is imperative.
http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/diversity.jpg
BROADENING PARTICIPATION
Visualization
Edward Duffy
Jill Gemmill,
Lori Tanner
Vetria Byrd
Galen Collier
Partially funded by
CRA-W/CDC,
NSF Grant ACI-1419415,
Clemson Computing and
Information Technology
2014 BPViz Workshop Organizers
Lofty Goal
IEEE Cluster
September 23 – 27, 2013
IEEE VisWeek
October 13 - 18, 2013
SC14
November 17-22, 2013
Graph by Edward Duffy, Clemson Computing and Information Technology
Lofty Goal – Achieved
• Highly Competitive
• Over 100 applicants applied
• 10% funded participants
• A total of 77 participants
– Despite the Polar Vortex!
Bowie State
University
Clemson
University
Eastern Michigan
University
Fisk University
Georgia Institute
of Technology
Georgia Institute
of Technology
Harvard Medical
School
Indiana
University -
Bloomington
Kentucky State
University
Louisiana High
School for Math,
Science, and the
Arts
Morehouse
College
Morgan State
University
New Mexico
State University
South Carolina
State University
Spelman
University
Syracuse
University
Texas A&M
University -
College Station
The University of
Texas at Dallas
Universidad
Politecnica De
Puerto Rico
University of
Alabama -
Huntsville
University of
Arkansas at Pine
Bluff
University of
California-
Berkeley
University of
Central Florida
University of
Louisville
University of
Maine
University of
North Carolina -
Chapel Hill
University of
Puerto Rico--Rio
Piedras
University of
South Carolina
University of
Southern
California
University of
Texas - El Paso
Virginia Tech
Xavier University
of Louisiana
Participant Affiliations
BPViz2014
Race/Ethnicity Represented
(As Defined by NSF)
44% 56%
• African American
• Caucasian
• Asian Indian
• Vietnamese- American
• Mideastern
• Hispanic
• Native Hawaiian
• Unknown
Self-reported
Byrd, VL. Expanding the Pipeline: 1st CRA-W/CDC Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz) Workshop, Computing
Research News, April 2014, Vol. 26, No.4. Partially funded by CRA-W/CDC, NSF Grant ACI-1419415, Clemson Computing
and Information Technology
Why Should You Care
• Tuesday’s Plenary
Speakers
– Phil Isenberg
– Peter Goodwin
• Build a community
• Best available
scientists
• Interdisciplinary
• Visualization &
Communication
BPViz2014
February 10-11, 2014 • Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Partially funded by CRA-W/CDC, NSF Grant ACI-1419415, and Clemson Computing and Information Technology
Agents in Training
REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Collaborative Data Visualization Applications. 2014 Summer Participants:
Kayla DiMarco, Asher Sampong, Cameron Collins, Luther Fant, Michael Bosch, Hali Gallagher, Mokell Moses, Colleen Burns,
Kenneth Curtis, Tyler Slonecki. Clemson University Data Visualization Interns (Not shown): Joseph McDavid, Christian Weeks,
and Nitin Sachdeva.
VISUALIZATION – A Catalyst for Communication, a Conduit for Collaboration and Participation
XSEDE14
July 17, 2014
Atlanta, GA
Vetria L. Byrd, PhD
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