“VISION OF THE MIND”Professor Chaomei Chen, College of Computing and Informatics,Drexel University, USA |
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Bio
Dr. Chaomei Chen is a Professor of Informatics in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University, USA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Information Visualization and the Chief Field Editor of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. He is the author of a series of books on various topics, including Representing Scientific Knowledge: The Role of Uncertainty (Springer 2017), The Fitness of Information: Quantitative Assessments of Critical Information (Wiley, 2014), Turning Points: The Nature of Creativity (Springer, 2011), Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon (Springer 2004, 2006), Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization (Springer 2003, 2013). He is the creator of the widely used visual analytics software CiteSpace for visualizing and analyzing structural and temporal patterns in scientific literature.
Abstract
Data visualization has become a very attractive topic, a highly marketable skillset, a promising career choice, and many other appealing properties all at the same time. While data-driven philosophies, strategies, and approaches have indispensable values, we often encounter situations in which the data may not speak for itself adequately or meaningfully at all. In this talk, I will demonstrate how a variety of assumptions, theories, and mental models may influence the ways we design, interpret, and communicate through visual analytic applications. I will illustrate the role of gestalt principles, gestalt switches, structural hole theory, structural variation theory, and a few other theories in visual analytic studies of the structure and dynamics of a research field.