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<h1> Statistical Graphics Working Group Seminars </h1>
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  <li> 3/12/2015 Vianey Leos "Can't Stop Won't Stop: Sharks on the Move" For animals like sharks, GPS trackers and accelerometers are vital to knowing where they go and how they move. Some sharks can be tagged and followed, while others are tagged with more advanced equipment that can produce observations at very fine time resolutions with high accuracy, quickly leading to data set sizes in the millions. I will present various shark datasets, approaches in animal movement modeling, and statistical and biological challenges of analyzing massive amounts of movement data.  </li>
  <li> 3/5/2015 Jennifer Chang <a href="http://www.complex.iastate.edu/download/Mango/index.html" target="_blank"> Mango: an integrated environment for network visualization and exploration </a> Mango is a graph analysis and visualization software designed to handle many large graphs with tens of thousands of nodes and millions of links at once. Mango combines the power and flexibility of a high level Graph Exploration Language (Gel) with the easy operation of a graphical user interface. The result is a general purpose graph analysis tool that can be used to analyze many heterogeneous biological data sets. Mango is not limited to handling only biological data - Any data association and linkage information can be loaded into Mango and analyzed. </li>
  <li> 2/12/2015 Discussion lead by Heike Hofmann "Perceptual kernels" <a href="http://hci.stanford.edu/~cagatay//projects/pk/PerceptualKernels-InfoVis14.pdf" target="_blank"> paper 1 </a>, <a href="https://github.com/uwdata/perceptual-kernels" target="_blank"> paper 2 </a>, <a href="http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2010-MTurk-CHI.pdf" target="_blank"> paper 3 </a> 
  <li> 2/5/2015 Two short seminars of Stat 579 (Fall 2014) projects: "Ebola Now and Then: What is different about the 2014 West Africa Outbreak?" Jun Fang, Jing Zhao, Rafael Martinez-Feria, and Carrie Chennault; "Estimate the trend of social atmosphere in the US by examining popular songs played over" Taikgun Song, Hyeongseon (Sammy) Jeon, and Sanghoon Cho </li>
  <li> 1/29/2015 Discussion lead by Carson Sievert, read the paper "Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods" by Cleveland and McGill. </li>
  <li> 1/22/2015 Discussion lead by Sam Tyner <a href="http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/vis14.pdf" target="_blank">Infovis and Statistical Graphics: Different Goals, Different Looks</a> by Andrew Gelman and Antony Unwin.
Two reactions to the above article by <a href="http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/stat-graph-hist.pdf" target="_blank"> Hadley Wickham </a> and <a href="http://kosara.net/papers/2013/Kosara_JCGS_2013.pdf" target="_blank"> Robert Kosara</a>.
Also, check out <a href="https://eagereyes.org/blog/2012/responses-gelman-unwin-convenient-posting" target="_blank"> link </a> for two more reactions by Stephen Few and Paul Murrell, and Gelman and Unwin's response to all the responses.
<a href="http://vis.pnnl.gov/pdf/RD_Agenda_VisualAnalytics.pdf" target="_blank">What is Visual Analytics?</a> Read pages 1-18, the executive summary of the goals of R & D for visual analytics and 
<a href="http://visual.ly/what-is-an-infographic" target="_blank"> What's an Infographic?</a>
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  <li> 1/15/2015 Discussion lead by Di Cook When you have some time this week, before Thursday, go over to the Food Science building and look in the courtyard. There are a set of sculptures produced by Chuck Ginnever on loan until July.  There are 15 identical shapes, but they must be arranged with each one oriented differently from all others. Its a little like the paper-folding tests we have all done.  The museum staff need some math-minded people to help them configure the sculptures, and also suggest challenges that could be provided to students, through the iastate web site, throughout the life of the exhibit.
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  <li> <a href="graphics-f14.html" target="_blank"> Fall 2014 seminars </>
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