Tamara Munzner will be a keynote speaker at VIZBI 2017 (Sydney, 14-16 June); she has worked on visualization projects in a broad range of application domains, including genomics, evolutionary biology, geometric topology, computational linguistics, large-scale system administration, web log analysis, and journalism.
Tamara was also a keynote speaker at VIZBI 2011 (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, USA), where she presented lucid and very useful guidelines for creating effective visualizations. She highlighted the advantages of 2D representation – compared with 3D, immersive, or animated visualizations – and described methods to reduce the viewer’s cognitive load, and to validate visualizations. A video of Tamara’s 2011 keynote can be viewed here.
