7:00 – 3:00 ASRC MKT

• Organized my thoughts on trust and awareness
• GMap: Drawing Graphs as Maps (also Visualizing Graphs and Clusters as Maps)
  • Yifan Hu – I am a member of the Yahoo Research (New York) working on data mining, machine learning and visualization. Before joining Yahoo I was a member of the Information Visualization department at AT&T Labs — Research, working on graph and text visualization, machine learning and numerical algorithms. From 2001 to 2007, I worked at Wolfram Research, developing numerical and graph theoritical software. Prior to April 2001, I worked in the Computational Science and Engineering Department at Daresbury Laboratory, conducting research in algorithms for high performance computing. For further chronological details, see here.
  • Information visualization is essential in making sense out of large data sets. Often, high-dimensional data are visualized as a collection of points in 2-dimensional space through dimensionality reduction techniques. However, these traditional methods often do not capture well the underlying structural information, clustering, and neighborhoods. In this paper, we describe GMap: a practical tool for visualizing relational data with geographic-like maps. We illustrate the effectiveness of this approach with examples from several domains All the maps referenced in this paper can be found in this http URL
• Need to take a look at these and see if there is disagreement on the location of physical objects, or it is the layering of conceptual objects such as borders on the map.
  • Why Amazonian forest peoples are ‘counter-mapping’ their ancestral lands
  • Whose woods are these? counter-mapping forest territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia
  • Cartography, territory, property: postcolonial reflections on indigenous counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize
• Finished the first pass at the CHI DC proposal!
• ACM has built an ENTIRELY new LaTex format for extended CHI abstracts that breaks when you look at it sideways (https://github.com/sigchi/Document-Formats). I have literally spent the last two-three hours trying to:
  1. make a single author (success!)
  2. get the abstract in (partial success?)
  3. get the figures to work
  4. bring in any other text
  5. get the bibliography to work. (At all. I mean, like adding a single citation breaks everything.)