Jeffrey Heer
Jeffrey Michael Heer | |
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Born | 15 June 1979 |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | University of Washington, Stanford University |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | Maneesh Agrawala |
Doctoral students | Mike Bostock, Jason Chuang, Sean Kandel, Diana MacLean |
Known for | Data visualization |
Notable awards | TR35, Sloan Fellowship |
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Jeffrey Michael Heer (born American computer scientist best known for his work on information visualization and interactive data analysis. He is an associate professor of Computer Science & Engineering[1] at the University of Washington, where he directs the UW Interactive Data Lab.[2] He co-founded Trifacta with Joe Hellerstein and Sean Kandel in 2012.
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As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, he developed the Prefuse and Flare[3] visualization toolkits.
Research and career
Before joining the University of Washington, Heer was an assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, from 2009 to 2013. He is also co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of Trifacta.[4] Heer's research focuses on new systems and techniques for data visualization. As a professor at Stanford, he worked with then-Ph.D. student Mike Bostock on the D3.js and Protovis systems. Along with Joe Hellerstein and Sean Kandel, Heer has also developed interactive tools for data transformation (including Data Wrangler[5]), leading to the founding of Trifacta.
Awards and recognition
Heer's research has been recognized by a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Award,[6] an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship,[7] and MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.[8] Heer and his students have won best paper awards at human-computer interaction[9][10] and visualization[11] conferences. His work has also appeared in the popular press.[12][13][14][15][16][17]
References
- ↑ http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/
- ↑ http://idl.cs.washington.edu/
- ↑ http://flare.prefuse.org/
- ↑ http://www.trifacta.com/people
- ↑ 10.1145/1978942.1979444
- ↑ https://www.moore.org/programs/science/data-driven-discovery/investigators
- ↑ http://www.sloan.org/fileadmin/media/files/srf/2012_srf_nytimes_ad.pdf
- ↑ http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=788
- ↑ http://chi2013.acm.org/program/best-of-chi/
- ↑ http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2011/#BestPaper
- ↑ http://www.eurovis2013.de/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/technology/for-big-data-scientists-hurdle-to-insights-is-janitor-work.html
- ↑ http://gigaom.com/2012/10/04/how-trifacta-wants-to-teach-humans-and-data-to-work-together/
- ↑ http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2018546054_computerscience28m.html
- ↑ http://www.geekwire.com/2012/love-marriage-university-washington-bolstered-machine-learning-big-data-staff/
- ↑ http://www.economist.com/node/15557455
- ↑ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/414119/simpler-data-visualization/