It’s in midtown at 7pm (on Mon 14 Jan 2013).
Last time I talked for this group, I spoke on Infovis vs. Statistical Graphics. This time I plan to just go thru the choices involved in a few zillion graphs I’ve published over the years, to give a sense of the options and choices involved in graphical communication. For this talk there will be no single theme (except, perhaps, my usual “Graphs as comparisons,” “All of statistics as comparisons,” and “Exploratory data analysis as hypothesis testing”), just a bunch of open discussion about what I tried, why I tried it, what worked and what didn’t work, etc. I’ve discussed these sorts of decisions on occasion (and am now writing a paper with Yair about some of this for our voting models), but I’ve never tried to make a talk out of it before. Could be fun.
seems like a popular talk — the wait list is already 20 names long!
There’s a waitlist… You’re a popular guy.
Will you post the slides? They should have a live webcast!
It’s a shame the facility they chose will only accommodate 100. Looks to be over 50 on the wait list, currently. I certainly would have come up from Brooklyn to hear the talk.
[...] It went pretty well, especially considering it was an entirely new talk (even though, paradoxically, all the images were old), and even though I had a tough act to follow: I came on immediately after an excellent short presentation by Jed Dougherty on some cool information and visualization software that he and his colleagues are building for social workers. [...]