ATC Lecture: Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, Google, Boston October 1, 2012

Google artists and designers Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg investigate the art and science of data visualization using Google visualization software. The pair look at data sets ranging from tropical storms to social networks and investigate arguments on Wikipedia as well as expressions of carnal desire.
Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg lead Google's "Big Picture" visualization research group in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before joining Google, the duo founded a studio called Flowing Media, Inc. and created the ground-breaking public visualization platform "Many Eyes" at IBM. Viegas is known for her pioneering depictions of chat histories and email. Wattenberg's visualizations of the stock market and baby names are considered Internet classics. Their work has appeared in the New York Times, in the collection of the NY Museum of Modern Art, and has also been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.

Co-presented with the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative.

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