Map: How big are the LA fires? Use this tool to overlay them atop where you live To better understand the size of the LA fires, our tool lets you overlay the fire perimeters on any location in California.

The fires in LA now cover an area larger than 40,000 acres, roughly the size of D.C.

Still having a hard time visualizing it? Use my latest interactive map to compare it to a place you know much better: where you live

Postdoc Opportunity at the VACLab | VACLab Apply now for this opportunity to join the VACLab as a postdoc! This NIH-supported position will support a postdoctoral scholar who will conduct visual analytics research within our lab and help mento...

I'm hiring a postdoc! Come join my team at UNC-Chapel Hill and contribute to our visual analytics research. Interested? Read more about the opportunity at the link below, and please to contact me to introduce yourself!

vaclab.unc.edu/news/2025_po...

The Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social has a new website! Check it out! chip.unc.edu

Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see them through the spirit of Hungarian folk dance. In a series of four videos (so far), folks at Sapientia…

FlowingData credits a group at Sapientia University. flowingdata.com/2011/04/14/s...

My hunch is that training will only go so far, & that interaction design will play a bigger role in shaping how these techs will be used (or abused). If we give people Q&A systems they’ll ask questions. If we give treatment selection systems, maybe people will use them to inform treatment choice.

I am recruiting a postdoc! The research emphasis is participatory design for decision-making interfaces. Check out the two project descriptions on my website. people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalea/prosp...

The position is through UChicago’s Data Science Institute. datascience.uchicago.edu/research/pos...

I’m excited to share that UNC’s Carolina Health Informatics Progrom (CHIP) is now on BlueSky… @chip-unc.bsky.social Follow for updates about our program, our amazing students, our faculty’s research, and other health informatics news from UNC!

So many opportunities in the health space for responsible, human-centered applications of data science and AI. It’s exciting to work in the area, but also important to recognize the danger of move recklessly given pressure to go fast in a high-stakes domain with many challenges.

2. A full third of the leadership team included visualization in their list of responsibilities.
3. Modern hospitals produce a LOT of data. I knew this, but it’s even more than I recognized and the vast majority is essentially ignored.

1. The scramble to gather and integrate data in response to COVID produced both an ecosystem and a culture for making data available that continues to make innovation faster and easier than pre-pandemic.

Rachini Moosavi talks during her CHIP Seminar Series presentation.

The Carolina Health Informatics Program was excited to host Rachini Moosavi, Chief Analytics Officer at UNC Health, as part of our speaker series. It was a great talk and highlighted a lot of interesting work to embed analytics across the health enterprise. A few smaller points also stuck with me:

I'm excited to see the recent uptick in bsky activity, especially within the #datavis community. It has started to feel like the "good old days" when social media was helpful for keeping up with the field. Have we reached a critical mass for the conversation to thrive? I hope so!

We're hiring a visualization / visual analytics postdoc in our lab @ UNC!

Getting close to earning a PhD? Interested in data vis and interactive data tools? Want to help address bias and equity in data-driven health research?

If so, apply today! Learn more here: vaclab.unc.edu/news/2024_po...