Big Picture Group
WRITINGS & TALKS
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Writings
Embedding Projector: Interactive Visualization and Interpretation of Embeddings
Daniel Smilkov, Nikhil Thorat, Charles Nicholson, Emily Reif, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg.
NIPS Conference 2016, arXiv:1611.05469 [stat.ML]
Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation
Melvin Johnson, Mike Schuster, Quoc V. Le, Maxim Krikun, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Nikhil Thorat, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Greg Corrado, Macduff Hughes, Jeffrey Dean
arXiv:1611.04558 [stat.ML]
Interactive Visualization of Spatially Amplified GNSS Time‐Series Position Fields
Brendan J. Meade, William T. Freeman, Jimbo Wilson, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg
Seismological Research Letters vol. 88 no. 1 126-130
How to Use t-SNE Effectively
Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viégas and Ian Johnson
Distill, Oct. 2016
Direct-Manipulation Visualization of Deep Networks
Daniel Smilkov, Shan Carter, D. Sculley, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg,
Invited paper, ICML 2016 Visualization Workshop
Invited paper, KDD 2016 IDEA Workshop
TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Martín Abadi, Ashish Agarwal, Paul Barham, Eugene Brevdo, Zhifeng Chen, Craig Citro, Greg S. Corrado, Andy Davis, Jeffrey Dean, Matthieu Devin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Ian Goodfellow, Andrew Harp, Geoffrey Irving, Michael Isard, Yangqing Jia, Rafal Jozefowicz, Lukasz Kaiser, Manjunath Kudlur, Josh Levenberg, Dan Mane, Rajat Monga, Sherry Moore, Derek Murray, Chris Olah, Mike Schuster, Jonathon Shlens, Benoit Steiner, Ilya Sutskever, Kunal Talwar, Paul Tucker, Vincent Vanhoucke, Vijay Vasudevan, Fernanda Viégas, Oriol Vinyals, Pete Warden, Martin Wattenberg, Martin Wicke, Yuan Yu, Xiaoqiang Zheng
arXiv:1603.04467 [cs.DC]
Design and Redesign in Data Visualization
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Book chapter in Malofiej 22, SND-E, March 2015
Medium article
Visualizing Statistical Mix Effects and Simpson's Paradox
Zan Armstrong, Martin Wattenberg
Proceedings of IEEE InfoVis 2014, IEEE
Ad Click Prediction: a View from the Trenches
H. Brendan McMahan, Gary Holt, D. Sculley, Michael Young, Dietmar Ebner, Julian Grady, Lan Nie, Todd Phillips, Eugene Davydov, Daniel Golovin, Sharat Chikkerur, Dan Liu, Martin Wattenberg, Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson, Tom Boulos, Jeremy Kubica
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (2013)
Google+Ripples: a native visualization of information flow
Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Jack Hebert, Geoffrey Borggaard, Alison Cichowlas, Jonathan Feinberg, Jon Orwant, Christopher Wren
22nd international conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2013)
Through the looking glass: talking about the world with visualization
Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012), pp. 655-656
The future of visualization
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
CNN.com editorial, April 19, 2011
Luscious
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Book chapter in Net Works: case studies in web art and design
Ed. xtine burrough, Routledge 2011
Beautiful History: Visualizing Wikipedia
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Book chapter in Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts (Theory in Practice)
Ed. Julie Steele & Noah Ilinsky. O'Reilly Media, 2010
Case Study: Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Book chapter in Open Government
Ed. Daniel Lathrop & Laurel Ruma. O'Reilly Media, 2010
The Search for Love
Fernanda B. Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Op-Ed, Boston Globe, December 21 2009
Talks
2018
Visualization for Machine Learning
Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg.
NeurIPS Conference Tutorial Series 1, December 3
2016
Making Data Matter: Visualization as Communication Medium
Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, Google
IACS Seminar Series, Harvard SEAS, November 4
KEYNOTE Seeing Machines Think
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
OpenVis Conference, Boston, April 2016
Visualizing a World in Motion: Designing for Real-Time Data
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Trends Series, Informatics Dept., UC Irvine, April
KEYNOTE The Art of Data Visualization
Martin Wattenberg
The Art of Data Visualization, Columbia University, April
2015
Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
CS Colloquium, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, September
Data Visualization for All
Fernanda Viégas
CGU Commencement Forum, Claremont Graduate University, May
KEYNOTE Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
VizUM Symposium, University of Miami, Miami, November
States of Design
Fernanda Viégas
Graduate seminar, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, September
KEYNOTE Da ciência à arte, dos dados ao insight: Visualização de Dados Agora
Fernanda Viégas
CIDI, Brasilia, September
Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative
Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg
CS Colloquium, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, September
Design and Complexity
Fernanda Viégas
Knotty Objects Summit, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, July
The Future of Data Visualization
Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg
Boston 2035 Xconomy, Babson College, July 17
Data Visualization for All
Fernanda Viégas
CGU Commencement Forum, Claremont Graduate University, May
Visualizations at Scale
Martin Wattenberg
Class lecture, Stats 101
Harvard University, March
Live Visualizations
Martin Wattenberg
Gates Scholar Lecture, Boston, January
From Chocolate to Hurricanes
Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg
Nieman Fellow Lecture, Harvard University, January
2014
KEYNOTE Watching the World Change through Data and Design
Fernanda Viégas
Xconomy Tech Agenda, Boston, December
About Time panel
Fernanda Viégas
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York City, October 19
Making the invisible visible
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Art + Environment Conference, Nevada Museum of Art, October
Visualizing Live Data
Martin Wattenberg
Albright Challenge Foundation, Cambridge, September
Panel: Augmented Education
Amit Pitaru, Evelyn Eastmond, Fernanda Viégas, Jer Thorp, Martin Wattenberg
Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis, June
KEYNOTE Storytelling and Visualization Genres
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Tapestry Conference, Annapolis, March
Data Visualization for the World
Fernanda Viégas
Boston Girl Geek Dinner, Cambridge, March 25
Infographics and Data Visualization panel
Fernanda Viégas
SXSW, Austin, March
KEYNOTE Thinking with Your Eyes: Visualizing the Arts, Humanities & Sciences
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Arts, Humanities & Sciences (requires login), Harvard University, February
Data Visualization
Martin Wattenberg
University of Maryland, February
Collaborative Visualization
Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg
Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, February
2013
Visualização de dados para todos
Fernanda Viégas
Simpósio da Comunidade Científica Brasileira na Nova Inglaterra, Cambridge, October
Data Visualization and Art, Distinguished Lecture
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, September
KEYNOTE Visualization for Everyone
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Links 2013, MIT, July
KEYNOTE Visualizing Social Weather and Climate
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
ICWSM 13, Cambridge, July 10
From Hurricanes to the Harlem Shake
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Information Design and Visualization, Northeastern University, June 20
Pictures of Arguments, Songs, & Ancient Texts
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis, June 6
Failing with Style panel
Fernanda Viégas
Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis, June
Visualizing Natural and Cultural Phenomena
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
In Visualization: From Data to Discovery, CalTech, May 23
Google+ Ripples: A Native Visualization of Information Flow
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
WWW 2013, Rio de Janeiro, May
Panel: Big data and its applications on the web
Fernanda Viégas , Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Rico Malvar, Rakesh Agrawal, Yoelle Maarek
WWW 2013 Industry Track, Rio de Janeiro, May 15
Seeing Invisible Influences
Martin Wattenberg
Center for Advanced Study
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, April 3
Wind map and other visualizations from hint.fm
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Center for Geographic Analysis
Harvard University, March 20
Time and time again: Artist talk
Martin Wattenberg
Harvard Medical School, March 13
Panel: Data Visualization
Ben Fry, Joe Ward, Martin Wattenberg, Sam Hinkie (mod)
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Boston, March 1
Visualizing the Wind
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
GIS Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, March
Visualização de Dados Hoje
Fernanda Viégas
PUB Boston, Cambridge, March
Simplicity is not a Goal
Fernanda Viégas
Malofiej Infographic World Summit, Pamplona, Spain, March
KEYNOTE Data Visualization Culture
Fernanda Viégas
Google Developer Diversity Program, DevFestW, Cambridge, January
KEYNOTE Visualization Culture: Data Literacy for the Rest of Us
Fernanda Viégas
Society of Women Engineers-Boston Chapter, Cambridge, January
KEYNOTE Visualization Culture: Data Literacy for the Rest of Us
Fernanda Viégas
Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, Maui, January 8
2012
Visualization and the Joy of Revelation
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
ATC Lecture / Berkeley Center for New Media, Berkeley, October 1
Catching the wind: Visualizing and repurposing public data
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors), Boston, June 14
Seeing Invisible Influences
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis, June 6
KEYNOTE Through the Looking Glass: Talking about the World with Visualization
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
SIGCSE 2012 keynote
Raleigh NC. March 3, 2012
2011
KEYNOTE Art & Data Visualization
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Visualizing Biological Data (VizBi) 2011 keynote
Cambridge, March 18, 2011
Talk: Visualizing Culture; Panel: Storytelling without words
Martin Wattenberg
Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR), Raleigh NC, Feb. 24
Visualizing Culture
Martin Wattenberg
Tufts University Computer Science Colloquium, Medford MA, Feb. 17
2010
From Politics to Art
Fernanda Viégas
Year of Social Media, CS Dept., University of Illinois Champaign Urbana, Urbana, Nov
KEYNOTE Democratizando a visualização de dados
Fernanda Viégas
Web W3C Conference, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, October
Looking Back: Design and Technology at the Lab
Fernanda Viégas
MIT Media Lab 25th Anniversary, Cambridge, October
Politics to Art: Visualization as a Medium (invited Technical Talk)
Fernanda Viégas
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Atlanta, September
The Joy of Revelation
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Digital Arts@Google, New York, August 12
Can the Internet Fix Politics?
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Personal Democracy Forum 2010, New York, June 3
KEYNOTE Data Visualization for the Digital Humanities
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
humanities + digital Conference
MIT. March 23
The Joy of Revelation
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Art + Design Lecture Series, Northeastern University, March 10
Visualizing the Inner Lives of Texts
Fernanda Viégas
Distinguished Speaker, Center for Technology and Social Behavior speaker series, Northwestern University, February 18