Tamara Munzner: Talks

All the talks I've given in reverse chronological order.

Visualization Problems for Perception Researchers
dg26: Dagstuhl Seminar: Perception-Informed Network Visualization: Visual and Interaction Design Wadern Germany 8/26
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Data Visualization as a Driver for Visual Cognition Research
opam17: Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) 2017, Interdisciplinary Research Panel: Discover Pasteur's Quadrant: Four research communities that will inspire your work. Vancouver BC 11/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

31 Years of Graph Drawing: Analyzing the Oddballs
gd26: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization 2026, St Catherine's Canada, 08/2
hn26: Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn Germany, 08/26
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Iceberg Sensemaking: A Process Model for Critical Data Analysis
iceberg25: IEEE VIS 2025, Vienna Austria, 11/25
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

IEEE VIS Reviewing panel
vis25panel: IEEE VIS 2025, Vienna Austria, 11/25
Slides: pdf, gslides

Visualization Analysis and Design: BMVC Tidbits
bmvc25: Biomedical Visualization and Communication Guest Lecture, virtual, 10/25
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Nudging People Into Log-Scale Thinking
hackers24: Hackers Conference, Santa Cruz CA, 11/24
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Marks Revisited: Beyond Bertin
northeastern24: Northeastern Vancouver Seminar, Vancouver, 7/24 Talk video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Sketchnotes from Patricia Tiffany
Marks Revisited: Beyond Bertin
mit24: MIT HCI Seminar, Boston, 2/24 Talk video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Pixel-Adaptive Visual Comparison Between Many Phylogenetic Trees
amw24: Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop 50, Monterey, 4/24
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Reconnaissance and Recommendation: Wayfinding Through Data With Visualization
vds23: Keynote, VDS 2023, Melbourne, 10/23
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Visualization Analysis and Design Book Page
Visualization Analysis & Design, Half-Day Tutorial
halfdaycourse26: Half-Day Tutorial, VIS 2026, Boston MA, 11/26
Slides: pdf (55 MB), pdf 16up (56 MB), key (91 MB)
Visualization Analysis & Design, Half-Day Tutorial
halfdaycourse25: Half-Day Tutorial, VIS 2025, Vienna Austria, 11/25
Slides: pdf (47 MB), pdf 16up (48 MB), key (85 MB)
Visualization Analysis & Design, Long Course
sigcourse25: Long Course, SIGGRAPH 2025, Vancouver, 8/25
Slides: pdf (38 MB), pdf 16up (39 MB), key (72 MB)
Visualization Analysis & Design, Half-Day Tutorial
halfdaycourse24: Half-Day Tutorial, VIS 2024, virtual, 10/24
Slides: pdf (25 MB), pdf 16up (25 MB), key (42 MB)
Visualization Analysis & Design, Half-Day Tutorial
halfdaycourse23: Half-Day Tutorial, VIS 2023, Melbourne, 10/23
Slides: pdf (25 MB), pdf 16up (25 MB), key (42 MB)
Visualization Analysis & Design, Half-Day Tutorial
halfdaycourse22: Half-Day Tutorial, VIS 2022, hybrid/Oklahoma City, 10/22
Slides: pdf (15 MB), pdf 16up (15 MB), key (42 MB)
Visualization Analysis & Design, All Slides (689 slides, including builds)
vadallslides: all VAD slides compiled together, last update 10/2021
Slides: pdf (69 MB), pdf 16up (69 MB), ppt (128 MB), key (230 MB)
Visualization Analysis & Design, All Prerecorded Lectures (6.5 hrs, 541 slides)
vad21all: Prerecorded Lectures (All 2021)
Slides: pdf (69 MB), pdf 16up (69 MB), ppt (128 MB), key (230 MB)
Videos: InfoVis@UBC YouTube playlist 6.5 hrs total, split into 22 segments
Visualization Analysis & Design, Undergraduate Course (5.75 hrs, 515 slides)
vad22ugrad: Prerecorded Lectures (flipped classroom), UBC CPSC 436V, Jan 2022
Slides: pdf (47 MB), pdf 16up (47 MB), ppt (101 MB), key (186 MB)
Videos: InfoVis@UBC YouTube playlist 5.75 hrs total, split into 18 segments
Visualization Analysis & Design, Full-Day Tutorial (5.5 hrs, 451 slides)
vadvis21: Full-Day Tutorial, VIS 2021, virtual, 10/21
Slides: pdf (46 MB), pdf 16up (46 MB), ppt (98 MB), key (173 MB)
Videos: InfoVis@UBC YouTube playlist 5.5 hrs total, split into 18 segments
Visualization Analysis & Design (50 minutes, 47 slides)
vad21biomedvis: Bio+Med+Vis Spring School, virtual, 5/21
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (half day (3 hrs) version, 143 slides)
halfdaycourse20: IEEE VIS 2020 Tutorial, Utah/virtual, 10/20
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Videos: InfoVis@UBC YouTube playlist w/ 9 separable snippets, IEEE VIS YouTube video including Q&A and VIS paper previews during breaks (3.5 hrs)
Visualization Analysis & Design (60 minutes, 56 slides)
vad20alum: UBC Alumni/Industry Symposium, Vancouver BC 2/20
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (half day (3 hrs) version, 143 slides)
halfdaycourse19: IEEE VIS 2019 Tutorial, Vancouver BC 10/19
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (60 minutes, 58 slides)
vad18msoft: Microsoft Vancouver DataViz Symposium, Vancouver BC 8/18
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (80 minutes, 68 slides)
vad17stat545: UBC STAT 545 Guest Lecture, Vancouver BC 10/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (full-day (6.66 hr) version, 239 slides)
vad17fullday: VIS 17 Tutorial, Phoenix AZ 10/17 Full Talk Video (audio+slides, no human)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Visualization Analysis & Design
vad17bedford: Bedford Lab, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA 7/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Data Visualization Pitfalls to Avoid (1.5 hrs, 63 slides);
Visualization Analysis & Design, In More Depth (2.5 hrs, 115 slides)
vad17can-morn, vad17can-aft: Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Economic and Analytical Services Division, Canberra Australia, 6/17
Slides (morning): pdf, pdf 16up, key
Slides (afternoon): pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (125 min version, 83 slides)
vad17sydney: Data Visualization Masterclass: Principles, Tools, and Storytelling Sydney Australia, 6/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Data Visualization Pitfalls to Avoid (50 min version, 48 slides)
vad17cbr: CBR Arts Meets Science, Vancouver BC, 3/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (45 min version, 37+15 slides)
vad16nasa: NASA Goddard Information Science and Technology Colloquium, Greenbelt MD, 12/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (half-day (3 hr) version, 143 slides)
halfdaycourse16: VIS 16 Tutorial, Baltimore MD, 10/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (50 min version, 50 slides)
vad16ccsc: CCSC, Portland OR, 10/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (80 min version, 59 slides)
vad16bryan: UBC STAT545 Guest Lecture, Vancouver BC, 10/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (full-day version: 6 hrs, 188 slides)
vad16act: ACT, Iowa City IA, 8/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Videos/Demos: treevis.net, Cerebral, Visual Analysis of Historic Hotel Visitation Patterns, From Detail to Overview via Selections and Aggregations, LineUp, Vismon, 3D Economic Growth Curve
Visualization Analysis & Design (3-hr version)
vad16pitp: IAS PiTP Summer School, Princeton NJ, 7/16 Talk Video, Part I Talk Video, Part II
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (50 min version)
vad16infoplus: InformationPlus, Vancouver BC, 6/16 Talk video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (40 min version)
vad16gi: Graphics Interface 2016, Victoria BC, 6/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (hour-long version)
vad16pacvis: PacificVis 2016 Keynote, Taipei Taiwan, 4/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (hour-long version)
vad15fls: UBC CS Faculty Lecture Series, Vancouver BC, 12/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (hour-long version)
vad15d3: D3 Unconference Keynote, San Francisco CA, 11/15 Talk Video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Visualization Analysis & Design (half-day version, 3.33 hrs)
halfdaycourse15: VIS 2015 Tutorial, Chicago IL, 10/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Visualization Analysis & Design (80-minute version)
vad15bryan: UBC STAT 545A Guest Lecture, Vancouver BC, 10/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (hour-long version)
vad15uw: University of Washington Data Science Seminar, Seattle WA, 9/15 Talk video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (third-day version, 2.5 hours)
vad15sydney: Data Visualization Masterclass, Vivid, Sydney, Australia, 6/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (hour-long version)
vad15chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago Distinguished Lecture, Chicago, IL, 4/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (90-minute version)
vad15dagstuhl: Dagstuhl Seminar Bridging Information Visualization with Machine Learning, Wadern, DE, 3/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (hour-long version)
vad15tableau: Tableau Software, Seattle, WA, 2/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization Analysis & Design (90-minute version)
vad15seattle: Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, 2/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Visualization Analysis & Design (90-minute version)
vad15london: City University London giCentre, London, UK, 2/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Visualization Analysis & Design (half-day version, 3.33 hours)
halfdaycourse14: VIS 2014 Tutorial, Paris, France, 11/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Visualization Analysis & Design (full-day version, 5.5 hours)
minicourse14: Sanger/EBI, Cambridge, UK, 6/14
Part 1: Visualization Analysis Framework. Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Part 2: Idiom Design Choices. Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Part 3: Idiom Design Choices II. Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Part 4: Guidelines and Examples. Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key, ppt
Sketchnotes from Francis Rowland, Jenny Cham

InfoVis Group Research
344-outro25nov: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 11/25
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Ocupado, TimeLine Curator
InfoVis Group Research
344-outro25mar: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 3/25
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Ocupado, TimeLine Curator
InfoVis Group Research
344-outro24mar: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 3/24
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Ocupado, TimeLine Curator
InfoVis Group Research
344-outro23nov: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 11/23
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Ocupado, TimeLine Curator
InfoVis Group Research
gradIntro23: Grad Orientation CS Idol, Vancouver BC 09/23
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
InfoVis Group Research
344-outro23: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 03/23
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Ocupado, TimeLine Curator
Intro
utah22: Utah SciVis Course, Guest Intro, virtual 4/22
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
InfoVis Group Research
344-outro21: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 11/21
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Ocupado, TimeLine Curator
Intro
utah21intro: Utah SciVis Course Intro, online, 3/21
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
InfoVis Group Research
344-outro20: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 12/20
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Overview preview, TimeLine Curator full video, & many more videos at the UBC InfoVis group youtube channel!
InfoVis Group Research
344-outro19: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 11/19
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
InfoVis Group Research
huawei18: Huawei, Burnaby BC 2/18
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
InfoVis Group Research
344-outro17: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 11/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Developing Design Spaces for Visualization
autodesk22: Autodesk LIVE (Learning, Interaction, Visualization and Experiences) Speaker Series, virtual 6/22
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Developing Design Spaces for Visualization
stanf22: Stanford HCI/PCD Seminar, virtual 3/22 (Talk video)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Visual Data Analysis: Why? When? How?
acm22: ACM Tech Talk, conversation with Pat Hanrahan and moderator Jeff Heer, virtual, 3/22
Video: (talk video)

Visualization: Abstractions & Idioms
coimbra22: University of Coimba Guest Lecture, virtual 3/22
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Problem-Driven Interactive Visualization for Imperfect Models
huawei22: Huawei Vancouver, Vancouver BC 1/22
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Geometry Center Videos, Revisited
g4g21: Gathering4Gardener Celebration of Mind 2021, virtual, 10/21 (Talk video)
Page: Links to all videos and other materials
Videos Shown: Not Knot HD: 2:45-5:45, 7:45-14:21; Outside In HD: 0:00-4:30, 10:30-16:30; The Shape of Space: 0:00-1:45, 2:25-4:25, 4:50-6:10, 8:00-9:00; GCVL M-28: 0:14- 1:13 Thurston, 1:15-3:30 Conway, 15:13-15:50 Thurston/Smale eversion; GCVL M-30: Penumbral Shadows (Upson/Mariano) start 22:30; M-67: Teichmuller Navigator (Van Der Werf) start 44:26; GCVL M-61: Twisting and Turning in 4D (Roseman) starting 15:12

Problem-Driven Visualization Through Design Studies
vinci21: VINCI 2021 Keynote, virtual / Potsdam Germany, 9/21
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
chinavis20: ChinaVis 2020 Keynote, virtual / Xi'an China, 10/20
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Visualization Challenges: Past and Future
gi21: Graphics Interface, virtual, 5/21 Talk video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

BELIV Provocations Fireside Chat
beliv20fireside: BELIV 2020 Workshop, Utah/virtual 10/20
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: IEEE VIS YouTube video (fireside chat from 22:52-53:39)

Looking Backward, Looking Forward
beliv20panel: BELIV 2020 panel: Vis Evaluation Moving into the Next Decade, Utah/virtual 10/20
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: IEEE VIS YouTube video (panel from 53:39-1:52:00)

Methods for Visualizing Biodiversity and Building Rewarding Collaborations
hakai19: UBC Biodiversity Challenge Retreat, Quadra BC 6/19
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Intro
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Decoding and Encoding Visualizations: Marks, Channels, and Color
visualise19: VisualISE (Visualization for Informal Science Education), Exploratorium, San Francisco CA 5/19 (Talk video)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Some Challenges of Color
vad17color-short: THINK Conference 2017, Santa Cruz CA 11/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Making Data Accessible Through Visualization
salon19: Designing for People Downtown Salon, Vancouver BC, 4/19
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Entry Points to Visualization: Different Methods for Different Problems
vizatubc19-entry: Viz@UBC Lunchtime Lecture Series, Vancouver BC, 3/19
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Characterization of Information Visualization Systems
stuttgart18: Conf. on Quantification in Visual Computing, Stuttgart Germany, 10/18
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Ocupado: Visual Analytics for Occupancy Applications
cisco18: Cisco, Toronto ON 6/18
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

InfoVis Group Research
huawei18: Huawei, Burnaby BC 2/18
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
InfoVis Group Research
344-outro17: CPSC 344 Outro, Vancouver BC 11/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Data Visualization as a Driver for Visual Cognition Research
opam17: Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) 2017, Interdisciplinary Research Panel: Discover Pasteur's Quadrant: Four research communities that will inspire your work. Vancouver BC 11/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

HIBAR Meeting Reflections
hibar17: HIBAR Meeting, Vancouver BC, 11/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key,

Statement - Reflection on Reflection in Design Studies
vis17reflect: VIS 17 Panel: Reflection on Reflection in Design Studies, Phoenix AZ 10/17
Slides: pdf

Information Visualization Meets Biology: Models and Methods for Collaboration
caulfield17: Monash University, Caulfield Australia, 6/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Information Visualization Meets Biology: Models and Methods for Collaboration
clayton17: Monash University, Clayton Australia, 6/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Information Visualization Meets Biology: Models and Methods for Collaboration
vizbi17: VIZBI 2017, Sydney Australia, 6/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Handson: Visualization
cb17: 2017 IRE Cross Border Reporting Workshop , Vancouver BC, 5/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Visualization and Journalism: Four Vignettes
cj16: Computation + Journalism Symposium 2016 Keynote, Stanford CA, 10/16 (talk video)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Visualization Highlights
amore17: AMORE Reading Group, Vancouver BC, 3/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Visualization Design Methods
ucsd17: Design@Large Series, UCSD Design Lab, San Diego CA, 1/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

2017 Research Overview
alibaba17: UBC, Vancouver BC, 1/17
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Pathways for Theoretical Advances in Visualization (Best Panel award)
theory16: VIS 2016 panel, Baltimore MD 10/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

I sense a great disturbance in the Force: The replication crisis in psychology & its possible repercussions for the future of vis evaluation; or, What's making me lose sleep lately
vis16: BELIV 2016 panel: On the Future of Evaluation and BELIV, Baltimore MD 10/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Dimensionality Reduction From Several Angles
UCSD Data Visualization Remote Lecture, 2/17
kelowna16: UBC-Okanagan, Kelowna BC, 8/16
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
UCSD Data Visualization Remote Lecture, 2/16
sydney15: University of Sydney, Sydney Australia, 6/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
linz14: Johannes Kepler University Linz Austria, 5/14 Talk Video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Dimensionality Reduction From Three Angles
eda14: SIAM Data Mining Workshop on Exploratory Data Analysis, Philadelphia PA, 4/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Dimensionality Reduction From Several Angles
charlotte14: UNC Charlotte Distinguished Lecture Charlotte NC, 4/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
vamp13: Visual Analytics for Multidimensional Projections, EuroVis 2013 Workshop, Leipzig Germany, 6/13 (keynote)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
utah13: SCI Distinguished Lecture, Salt Lake City UT, 2/13 Talk Video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
fodava12: FODAVA Distinguished Lecture, Atlanta GA, 12/12 Talk video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Variant View: Genomics, Big Data, and Patient Privacy Implications
think15: THINK Conference 2015, Santa Cruz CA, 11/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Variant View: Visualizing Sequence Variants in their Gene Context
oxford14: Oxford University, Oxford UK, 7/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
bioit14: BioIT World Conf, Data Visualization and Exploration Tools Track, Boston MA 4/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Points of Entry for VIS
entrypoints15: IEEE VIS 2015, Chicago IL 10/15
Slides: pdf

IEEE VGTC Technical Achievement Award Acceptance Talk
award15: IEEE VIS 2015, Chicago IL 10/15
Slides: pdf with speaker notes, pdf, pdf 16up, key

Teaching Across the Researcher-Practitioner Gap
vis15: IEEE VIS 2015 panel: Vis, The Next Generation: Teaching Across the Researcher-Practitioner Gap, Chicago IL 10/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Slides from other panelists: Marti Hearst: Teaching as Coaching, Eytan Adar

Visualization Analysis & Design for Biology
vanbug15: VanBUG: Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group, Vancouver BC, 10/15 Talk Video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Cerebral, MizBee, TreeJuxtaposer
Visualization Analysis & Design for Genomics
daley15: Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, UBC and St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver BC, 7/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Cerebral, MizBee, TreeJuxtaposer
Visualization Analysis & Design for Biology
biovis-cs314: UBC CPSC 314 guest lecture, Vancouver BC, 10/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
biovis14: BioVis Symposium, Boston MA, 7/14 (keynote)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Cerebral, TreeJuxtaposer, MizBee

Visualization Analysis & Design for Business Intelligence
disney15: Disney Research, Glendale CA, 7/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Cerebral, LiveRAC

Information Visualization Highlights
ubcresearch15: UBC Research Day in Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA, 5/15
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: Vismon, RelEx, MizBee

Is Big Data Visualization Possible?
skytree14: SkyTree Visualization Fireside Chat, Google Hangout On Air, 10/14 Chat Video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Scales and Methods of Engagement
canvas14: VA Tool Users and Universities Panel, CANVAS 2014 Workshop, Vancouver BC, 8/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Visualization for Hackers: Why It's Tricky, and Where to Start
hope14: Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) X, New York NY, 7/14 Talk Video
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: LiveRAC, Overview version 1, Overview version 4

Variant View: Visualizing Sequence Variants in their Gene Context
oxford14: Oxford University, Oxford UK, 7/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
bioit14: BioIT World Conf, Data Visualization and Exploration Tools Track, Boston MA 4/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Data Visualization in Genomics and In-Car Network Engineering
london14: City University London, London UK, 7/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
A Duo of Visualization Design Studies
vienna14: University of Vienna, Vienna Austria, 5/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
A Trio of Visualization Design Studies
chicago14: Northwestern University, Chicago, 4/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key
Videos: RelEx

Visualization: Why It's Tricky, Where To Start
bellairs14: ProK Workshop, Barbados, 2/14
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Evaluation, When and How
vis13: How Much Evaluation Is Enough? Panel, VIS 2013, Atlanta GA, 10/13
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Graph Drawing Through the Lens of a Framework for Analyzing Visualization Methods
gd13: Graph Drawing 2013, Bordeaux France, 9/13 (keynote)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

InfoVis Group Research
hci13: HCI@UBC Kickoff, Vancouver, 9/13
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, key

Visualization Principles
networkbio12: Cytoscape Symposium on Network Visualization, San Francisco CA, 12/12 Talk Video (youtube)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up
twitter12: Twitter, San Francisco CA, 6/12
explor12: Exploratorium, San Francisco CA, 6/12
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up
vizbi11: Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VizBi) 2011, Boston MA, 3/11 (keynote) Talk Video (vimeo format)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up

Grassroots Reproducability: Just Do It!
visweek12: Reproducible Visualization Research: How Do We Get There? VisWeek12 Panel, Seattle WA, 10/12
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up

Biology is Destiny: Of Graphs and Genes
techtrek12: UBC CS TechTrek, Vancouver BC, 1/12
Slides: pdf pdf 16up, key
amw09: Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop 2009, Monterey CA, 4/09
Slides: pdf pdf 16up PPT
Visualization and Biology: Fertile Ground for Collaboration
bigdata10: bigDATA Workshop, University of British Columbia, 5/10
Slides: pdf pdf 16up PPT
eindhoven09: Technical University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven Netherlands, 6/09
Slides: pdf pdf 16up PPT
harvard09: Harvard University, Cambridge MA, 2/09
Slides: pdf pdf 16up PPT
Big Data, Visualization, and Systems Biology
think08: THINK Conference 2008, Santa Cruz CA, 11/08
Slides: pdf pdf 16up PPT
Videos: Cerebral TreeJuxtaposer

Applying Information Visualization Principles to Biological Network Displays
hvei11: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 2011, San Francisco CA, 1/11
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up
Videos Cerebral
Demos Pathline

Focus+Context
sfu10: SFU CPSC 467/767 Visualization Guest Lecture, Burnaby BC, 11/10
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up
Videos TreeJuxtaposer, 2D PARC Hyperbolic Tree, H3
Demos SpaceTree

MulteeSum: A Tool for Comparative Spatial and Temporal Gene Expression Data
think10: THINK Conference 2010, Santa Cruz CA, 11/10
Slides: pdf pdf 16up

UBC Grad Course in InfoVis
visweek10: IEEE VisWeek 2010 Panel, Perspectives on Teaching Data Visualization, Salt Lake City UT, 10/10 (Best Panel award)
Slides: pdf pdf 16up

Research Interests Summary
dag10: Dagstuhl Information Visualization Workshop 2010, Wadern Germany, 6/10
Slides: pdf pdf 16up PPT

A Nested Model for Visualization Design and Validation
iv09: InfoVis Conference, Atlantic City NJ, 10/09
Slides: pdf pdf 16up PPT

Ballspenden: Filling Your Domain User Dance Card
dag10provoke Dagstuhl Information Visualization Workshop 2010, Wadern Germany, 6/10
Slides: pdf pdf 16up PPT
Visualization Process and Collaboration
dagstuhl09: Dagstuhl Scientific Visualization Workshop 2009, Wadern Germany, 6/09
Slides: pdf pdf 16up PPT
Research Cycles, Collaboration, and Visualization
leiden07: VIEW Workshop, Leiden Netherlands 6/07
Slides: pdf pdf 16up
When To Walk Away: Questions To Ask In Infovis Projects
dagstuhl07: Dagstuhl Seminar on Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation, Wadern Germany 5/07
Slides: pdf pdf 16up

Information Visualization: Frameworks/Models
models09: Harvard CS 171 Visualization Guest Lecture, Boston MA, 2/09
Slides: pdf

Outward and Inward Grand Challenges
vis08: IEEE InfoVis 2008, Grand Challenges in Information Visualization panel, Columbus OH, 10/08 (Best Panel award)
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up, PPT

Information Visualization Mini-Course
tecsmini: TECS Week, 1/08 (5 hour version)
Part 1: Design, Models, Perception. Slides: pdf, pdf 16up
Part 2: Color, Space, Statistical Graphics. Slides: pdf, pdf 16up
Part 3: Multiples, Navigation, Focus+Context. Slides: pdf, pdf 16up
Part 4: High Dimensional, Graphs and Trees, User Studies. Slides: pdf, pdf 16up
minicourse: LaBRI, Bordeaux France, 6/04 (6 hour version)
Lecture 1 HTML, pdf pdf 6up
Lecture 2 HTML, pdf pdf 6up
Lecture 3 HTML, pdf pdf 6up
Videos: Constellation, Outside In Excerpt, Blink Comparator, Small Multiples Animation, Improvise, Pad++, OrthoZoom, TreeJuxtaposer, Animated Radial Layouts
Demos: Preattentive Perception, TableLens, OrthoZoom, 2D Hyperbolic Tree, SpaceTree, TreeJuxtaposer

Mathematics For Visualization versus Visualization Of Mathematics
vis07: The Mathematical Concepts Beneath Contemporary Visualization panel, IEEE Visualization 2007, Sacramento CA, 10/07
Slides: pdf, pdf 16up

A Panorama of Publication Pitfalls
sfu07publish: SFU, Burnaby BC, 10/07
Slides: pdf pdf 16up
leiden07publish: How to Get Your Paper Published panel, VIEW Workshop, Leiden Netherlands, 6/07
Slides: pdf pdf 16up
vis06publish: Publishing Your Visualization Research panel, Doctoral Colloquium, IEEE Visualization 2006, Baltimore MD, 11/06
Slides: pdf, 9up

InfoVis at UBC CS
busobj07: UBC 8/07
PPT
Videos: Glimmer, Session Viewer

SciFoo 2007 InfoVis Pointers
SciFoo Camp, Mountain View CA 8/07

Visualization: From Pixels to Insight
techtrek07: UBC CS TechTrek 2007, Vancouver BC 3/07
Slides: PPT, PDF pdf, pdf 16up
Demos: TreeJuxtaposer, Kali
Videos: Outside In, Shape of Space excerpts

Scalable Visualization with Accordion Drawing
think06: THINK Conference 22, Santa Cruz CA, 11/06
Slides: PPT, pdf, pdf 16up

Visualization Careers: Academia
vis06career: Visualization Careers panel, Doctoral Colloquium, IEEE Visualization 2006, Baltimore MD, 11/06
Slides: pdf, 9up

Scalable Drawing of Trees and Graphs
jsm06: Joint Statistical Meeting 2006, Seattle WA, 8/06
Slides: PPT, pdf, pdf 6up
Videos: H3 TreeJuxtaposer
Software: H3 TreeJuxtaposer

15 Views of a Node-Link Graph: An InfoVis Portfolio
google06: Google TechTalks, Mountain View CA, 6/06 Talk video
Agilent Labs, Santa Clara CA, 6/06
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, 5/06 Talk Video (RealPlayer format, 68 minutes, 212MB)
Slides: HTML, pdf, pdf 6up;
FOO (Friends of O'Reilly) Camp, Sebastopol CA, 8/05
Information Esthetics Lecture Series One, Chelsea Museum, New York NY, 7/05
Slides: HTML, pdf, pdf 6up
Videos: Animated Radial Layouts, Constellation, H3
Demos: SpaceTree, 2D Hyperbolic Tree, H3 TreeJuxtaposer, SequenceJuxtaposer

Scalable Visual Comparison of Biological Trees and Sequences
umd06: University of Maryland College Park, College Park MD, 5/06 Slides: PPT, pdf, pdf 6up
Distinguished Lecture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore MD, 5/06 Slides: PPT, pdf, pdf 6up
Indiana University, Bloomington IN, 2/06 Slides: PPT, pdf, pdf 6up
PaRISTIC, Bordeaux France, 11/05 Slides: PPT, pdf, pdf 6up
Videos: TreeJuxtaposer, SequenceJuxtaposer, PRISAD
Software: TreeJuxtaposer, SequenceJuxtaposer

Interactive Visualization of Evolutionary Trees and Gene Sequences
UBC CS, Vancouver BC, 2/06
Slides: PPT, pdf, pdf 6up (15 minute version, aimed at undergrads)
Demos: TreeJuxtaposer, SequenceJuxtaposer
Videos: Outside In, Shape of Space excerpts

TopoLayout: Layout of Graphs by Topological Feature
think05: THINK Conference 21, Santa Cruz CA, 11/05
Slides: HTML, pdf pdf 6up

Information Visualization at UBC
ibm05: IBM TJ Watson Research, Hawthorne NY, 7/05
Slides: PPT, pdf, pdf 6up

Information Visualization with Accordion Drawing
att05: AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ, 7/05
Slides: PPT, pdf, pdf 6up

Interactive Information Visualization
sfu04: SFU CPSC 775, Scientific Visualization, Guest Lecture, 11/04 Slides: HTML, pdf, pdf 6up
cogs04: UBC COGS 300, Vancouver BC, 10/04, Slides: HTML, pdf, pdf 6up
UBC CPSC 349 (Honours Seminar), Vancouver BC, 10/04, Slides: HTML, pdf, pdf 6up
SIGGRAPH 04 Course (Seeing, Hearing, and Touching: Putting It All Together), Los Angeles, 8/04
SFU Cmpt 878, Scientific Visualization, Guest Lecture, 10/03 Slides: HTML, pdf
UBC CPSC 349 (Honours Seminar), Vancouver BC, 9/03
SIGGRAPH 03 Course (Multimodal Interface Design), 07/03 Slides: HTML, pdf
UBC CPSC 414 (Intro Graphics), Vancouver BC, 3/03 Slides: HTML
UBC CPSC 349 (Honours Seminar), Vancouver BC, 10/02 Slides: HTML

State of the Field: InfoVis
vrc04: NSF/NIH Visualization Research Challenges Fall Workshop, Bethesda MD, 9/04.
Slides: HTML, pdf, pdf 6up

Steerable, Progressive Multidimensional Scaling
Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop 2005, Monterey CA, 4/05
iv04: InfoVis 04, Austin TX, 10/04
Slides: PPT, HTML, pdf, pdf 6up
Videos: part 1 [3MB], part 2 [5MB]
Paper.

Scalable Visualization with Accordion Drawing
cogsci05: Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vancouver BC, 2/05
Slides: HTML, pdf, pdf 6up

Massive Data Thrust Summary Slides: HTML, pdf pdf 6up
massive04: Mathematical Foundations of Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics, and Massive Data Exploration, Banff AB, 5/04

Scalable Visual Comparison of Biological Trees and Sequences
Mathematical Foundations of Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics, and Massive Data Exploration, Banff AB, 5/04
Slides: HTML, PDF 1up PDF 6up
Stanford Computer Systems Lab Colloquium, Stanford CA, 5/04 Slides: HTML, PDF 6up (75 minute version)
amw04: Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop, Monterey CA, 4/04 Slides: HTML, PDF 6up (20 minute version)

Human Perception Tidbits
think03: THINK Conference 19, Yosemite CA, 11/03.
Slides: HTML, PDF 6up

Information and Scientific Visualization: Separate but Equal or Happy Together At Last
Visualization 03 panel, Seattle, 10/03 Slides: HTML, pdf

TreeJuxtaposer: Scalable Tree Comparison using Focus+Context with Guaranteed Visibility
sig03: SIGGRAPH 03, San Diego, 7/03 Slides: PPT, 6up bw 6up col withnotes bw withnotes col
CAIDA, San Diego, 8/03 Slides: PPT, 6up bw 6up col withnotes bw withnotes col
Microsoft Research, 7/03
Paper.

Visual Comparison of Large Evolutionary Trees
Quintessence: The Clumpy Matter of Art, Science and Math Visualization, Banff, 9/02

Interactive Visualization of Large Trees and Graphs
University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux France, 12/02
University of Calgary, Calgary AB, 9/02

Information Visualization for Systems People
Usenix 2002, Monterey, 6/02

Interactive Visualization of Large Trees and Graphs
University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, 4/02
UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA, 4/02
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, 4/02
UC Davis, Davis, 4/02
University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT, 3/02
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA, 3/02

Visual Structural Comparison Between Evolutionary Trees
New York Academy of Sciences, New York NY, 2/02

Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks
Compaq SRC, Palo Alto CA, 5/00.
Graz University of Technology, Graz Austria, 7/00.
Philips Design, Eindhoven Netherlands, 7/00.
CWI, Amsterdam Netherlands, 7/00.
UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, 10/00.
UT Austin, Austin TX, 3/01.

Video Topology
Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop, Monterey CA, 4/00.

Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks
Lucent/Bell Labs, Naperville IL, 4/00.

PhD Thesis Defense: Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks
Stanford CA, 4/00.
PPT, HTML
Paper.

In Search Of: Prescriptive Advice for Visualization
Visualization 99 panel, San Francisco CA, 10/99.

Constellation: A Visualization Tool for Linguistic Queries from MindNet
InfoVis 99 (IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization), San Francisco CA, 10/99.
Paper.

Interactive Navigation of Large Graphs and Networks
ONR/NSF Workshop on Data Visualization, Memphis TN, 6/99.

Interactive Navigation of Large Networks
Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop, Asilomar CA, 4/99.

Fast Layout and Drawing of Large Directed Graphs Using Spanning Trees in 3D Hyperbolic Space
CAIDA, San Diego CA, 11/98.
HP Labs, Palo Alto CA, 11/98

Drawing Large Graphs with H3Viewer and Site Manager
Graph Drawing '98, Montreal Canada, 8/98.
Paper.

Guaranteed Frame Rate Drawing for Interactive Naviagation of Large Graphs
DIMACS Workshop on External Memory Algorithms and/or Visualization, Rutgers NJ, 5/98.

Fast Layout and Drawing of Large Directed Graphs Using Spanning Trees in 3D Hyperbolic Space
AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ, 2/98
Bell Labs, Murray Hill NJ, 2/98
SRI, Menlo Park CA, 4/98

H3: Laying Out Large Directed Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space
THINK Conference 13, Santa Rosa CA, 11/97.
Alexa, San Francisco CA, 1/98.

H3: Laying Out Large Directed Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space
InfoVis 97 (IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization), Phoenix AZ, 10/97.
Paper.

H3: Laying Out Large Directed Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space
AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ, 9/97

Survey of Visualization Toolkits
SIGGRAPH 97, Los Angeles CA, 8/97.
One of the lectures in the Design and Application of Object-Oriented 3D Visualization Systems course.

H3: Laying Out Large Directed Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space
University of California Santa Cruz, 6/97

Information Visualization with VRML
World Movers, San Francisco CA, 2/97.

Visualizing the Structure of the MBone on the Globe and the Web in 3D Hyperbolic Space
MSRI, Berkeley CA, 12/96.
The talk was broadcast on the MBone.

Visualizing the Global Topology of the MBone
Interval Research, Palo Alto CA, 12/96.

Visualizing Large Cyclic Hierarchies in 3D Hyperbolic Space
BayCHI, Palo Alto CA, 11/96.

Mathematical Visualization: Standing at the Crossroads
Visualization 96, San Francisco CA, 11/96.
Moderator and co-organizer. (Best Panel award)

Visualizing the Global Topology of the MBone
InfoVis 96 (IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization), San Francisco CA, 10/96.
Paper.

Visualizing the Global Topology of the MBone
Workshop on Software and Mathematical Visualization, Princeton NJ, 6/96.

Dimension, Space, Information Visualization and the Web
Imagina 96, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 2/96.

Information Visualization in 3D Hyperbolic Space.
Apple, Sunnyvale CA, 2/96.

Visualizing the Structure of the World Wide Web in 3D Hyperbolic Space
VRML '95, San Diego CA, 12/95.
Joint work with Paul Burchard.
Paper.

3D Graphics through the Internet
SIGGRAPH 95, Los Angeles CA, 8/95.
Spoke at 3D Graphics through the Internet: A Shootout panel.

Mathematical Visualization through Interactive Software
SIGGRAPH 95, Los Angeles CA, 8/95.
One of the lectures in the Visualizing Mathematics course

Mathematical Visualization through Video
SIGGRAPH 95, Los Angeles CA, 8/95.
One of the lectures in the Visualizing Mathematics course.

Visualisierung in der Mathematik
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld Germany, 7/95.
Showed and discussed Outside In and The Shape of Space.

Integrating 3D Visualization with the World Wide Web
University of Bonn, Bonn Germany, 7/95.
Also showed and discussed Outside In and The Shape of Space.

Integrating 3D Visualization with the World Wide Web
International Workshop on Visualization and Mathematics, Technical University of Berlin (SFB288), Berlin Germany, 6/95.
ZIB, Berlin Germany, 6/95

Mathematical Visualization through Geomview
3D Visualization in Science (workshop)
Exploring Science through Video
Spelman College, Atlanta GA, 2/95.
One week of talks and workshops.

Visualizing the Invisible
Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta GA, 2/95.
Retrospective of my work for an audience of artists.

Visualization through the World Wide Web with Geomview, Cyberview, W3Kit, and WebOOGL
World Wide Web Fall 1994 Conference, Chicago IL, 10/94.
Joint work with Paul Burchard and Ed Chi.
Spoke at the Virtual Reality panel.

Visualization Videos
Fourth MSI Workshop on Computational Geometry, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 10/94.

Visualization with Geomview
The Making of Outside In.
Swarthmore-Bryn Mawr Joint Visualization Project, Swarthmore PA, 6/94.
Two days of talks and workshops.

Visualizing the Invisible
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, 4/94.
Minnesota Council of Teachers of Mathematics Spring Meeting, Brainerd MN, 4/94.
With Al Marden.
The video-talk was aimed at the general public.

Mathematical Visualization Using Geomview
St. John's College, Collegeville MN, 11/93.
Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter MN, 11/93.
Regional Geometry Institute, Smith College, Amherst MA, 7/93.

Introduction to Geomview
Second MSRI Conference on Geometric Visualization, Mathematical Sciences Research Institue, Berkeley CA, 10/92.
With Mark Phillips and Stuart Levy.
Tamara Munzner

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