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The research unit "Visual Analytics" # 193-07 (Centre for Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST)) is part of Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology. CVAST conducts research and provides teaching in Visualization (Information Visualization, Visual Analytics). Read More

Ongoing Projects

Blind Source Separation in Time and Space

Logo of blind source separation for time and space project showing a prism separating two rays of mixed colors into base colors

Smart Communities and Technologies (SmartCT)

IMMV: Interactive Music Mapping Vienna: Exploring a City, 1945 up to the present day

KnoVA – Knowledge–Assisted Visual Analytics

TimeVis: Book about "Visualization of Time-Oriented Data"	InfoVis:Wiki - the Information Visualization community platform

News

Nikolaus Piccolotto - Successful PhD Proficiency Evaluation

Submitted by Silvia Miksch on Sat, 21. Nov 2020 - 15:56

On Nov 13, 2020 Nikolaus Piccolotto successfully defended his PhD proposal titled "Visual Parameter & Result Analysis for Blind Source Separation Algorithms".

The examination committee included:

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Silvia Miksch inducted into The IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy 2020

Submitted by Silvia Miksch on Wed, 28. Oct 2020 - 14:23

Silvia Miksch was inducted into The IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy (or in short Vis Academy). The Vis Academy was established in 2018 by the IEEE VGTC Executive Committee. Induction to the Vis Academy is the highest and most prestigious honor in the field of visualization.

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Davide Ceneda :: Successful PhD Defense

Submitted by Davide Ceneda on Wed, 28. Oct 2020 - 07:04

On October 23, 2020 Davide Ceneda successfully defended his PhD thesis titled
"Guidance-Enriched Visual Analytics".

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IMMV featured in Der Presse (in German)

Submitted by Silvia Miksch on Sat, 29. Aug 2020 - 17:37

Our IMMV project "Music Mapping Vienna" was featured in the article "Österreich sollte wieder "ehrenhaft" klingen“ in the Newspaper „Die Presse“ from 22th August 2020.

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Book "Foundations of Visualization" is now published by Springer

Submitted by Silvia Miksch on Sun, 23. Aug 2020 - 14:21

About 50 contributors worked together on one project over about 2,5 years which resulted in a book with 4 different parts, 21 single chapters, and roughly 400 pages which is unbelievable.

Foundations of Data Visualization
Chen, M., Hauser, H., Rheingans, P., Scheuermann, G. (Eds.)
Springer, 2020

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