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Teaching

Fall 2018
Data Visualization (CSE442, UW Computer Science & Engineering)

Spring 2018
Data Visualization (CSE512, UW Computer Science & Engineering)

Fall 2017
Data Visualization (CSE442, UW Computer Science & Engineering)

Spring 2017
Data Visualization (CSE442, UW Computer Science & Engineering)

Winter 2017
User Interface Software & Technology (HCID520, UW HCI+Design)

Spring 2016
Data Visualization (CSE512, UW Computer Science & Engineering)

Winter 2016
User Interface Software & Technology (HCID520, UW HCI+Design)
Co-Instructor with Arvind Satyanarayan.

Spring 2015
Data Visualization (CSE512, UW Computer Science & Engineering)

Winter 2015
User Interface Software & Technology (HCID520, UW HCI+Design)

Winter 2014
Data Visualization (CSE512, UW Computer Science & Engineering)

Winter 2013
Science, Technology & Society (STS1, Stanford University)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Paula Findlen (History) and Prof. John Willinsky (Educ)

Winter 2013
Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio (CS247, Stanford Computer Science)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Michael Bernstein (CS)

Fall 2012
Data Visualization (CS448B, Stanford Computer Science)

Winter 2012
Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio (CS247, Stanford Computer Science)

Fall 2011
Data Visualization (CS448B, Stanford Computer Science)

Spring 2011
Research Topics in Interactive Data Analysis (CS448G, Stanford Computer Science)

Winter 2011
Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio (CS247, Stanford Computer Science)

Fall 2010
Data Visualization (CS448b, Stanford Computer Science)

Winter 2010
Social Software (CS294h, Stanford Computer Science)

Fall 2009
Data Visualization (CS448b, Stanford Computer Science)

Spring 2009
Research Topics in Human-Computer Interaction (CS376, Stanford Computer Science)

Winter 2009
Data Visualization (CS448b, Stanford Computer Science)

Spring 2006
Visualization (CS294-10, UCB Computer Science)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Maneesh Agrawala

Fall 2005
Information Visualization (IS247, UCB School of Information)
Co-Instructor with Prof. Marti Hearst  Teaching Rating: 6.4/7

Spring 2005
Foundations of New Media (IS146, UCB School of Information)
Graduate Student Instructor with Prof. Marc Davis, Prof. Peter Lyman, and danah boyd

refereed publications

Conference Papers
Boba: Authoring and Visualizing Multiverse Analyses, Yang Liu, Alex Kale, Tim Althoff, Jeffrey Heer IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VAST), Jan 2021.

Gemini: A Grammar and Recommender System for Animated Transitions in Statistical Graphics, Younghoon Kim, Jeffrey Heer IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), Jan 2021.

Fast and Flexible Overlap Detection for Chart Labeling with Occupancy Bitmap, Chanwut Kittivorawang, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jeffrey Heer IEEE VIS Short Paper, Oct 2020.

A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis

Paths Explored, Paths Omitted, Paths Obscured: Decision Points & Selective Reporting in End-to-End Data Analysis, Yang Liu, Tim Althoff, Jeffrey Heer ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Apr 2020.

ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems

iSeqL: Interactive Sequence Learning, Akshat Shrivastava, Jeffrey Heer Intelligent User Interfaces, Mar 2020.

Critical Reflections on Visualization Authoring Systems, Arvind Satyanarayan, Bongshin Lee, Donghao Ren, Jeffrey Heer, John Stasko, John R. Thompson, Matthew Brehmer, Zhicheng Liu. IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), Jan 2020. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis, Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Jeffrey Heer, Daniel S. Weld. Proc. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Jul 2019. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Capture & Analysis of Active Reading Behaviors for Interactive Articles on the Web, Matt Conlen, Alex Kale, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2019. [31% Acceptance Rate]

Designing Animated Transitions to Convey Aggregate Operations, Younghoon Kim, Michael Correll, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2019. [31% Acceptance Rate]

Color Names Across Languages: Salient Colors and Term Translation in Multilingual Color Naming Models, Younghoon Kim, Kyle Thayer, Gabriella Silva Gorsky, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2019. [31% Acceptance Rate]

Latent Space Cartography: Visual Analysis of Vector Space Embeddings, Yang Liu, Eunice Jun, Qisheng Li, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2019. [31% Acceptance Rate]

Characterizing Exploratory Visual Analysis: A Literature Review and Evaluation of Analytic Provenance in Tableau, Leilani Battle, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2019. [31% Acceptance Rate]

Falcon: Balancing Interactive Latency and Resolution Sensitivity for Scalable Linked Visualizations, Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2019. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco, Dominik Moritz, Chenglong Wang, Gregory Nelson, Halden Lin, Adam M. Smith, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'18), Jan 2019. [25% Acceptance Rate]

Idyll: A Markup Language for Authoring and Publishing Interactive Articles on the Web, Matt Conlen, Jeffrey Heer. ACM User Interface Software & Technology, Oct 2018. [21% Acceptance Rate]

SetCoLa: High-Level Constraints for Graph Layout, Jane Hoffswell, Alan Borning, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), June 2018. [29% Acceptance Rate]

Assessing Effects of Task and Data Distribution on the Effectiveness of Visual Encodings, Younghoon Kim, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), June 2018. [29% Acceptance Rate]

Somewhere Over the Rainbow: An Empirical Assessment of Quantitative Colormaps, Yang Liu, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2018. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes, Michael Correll, Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2018. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Augmenting Code with In Situ Visualizations to Aid Program Understanding, Jane Hoffswell, Arvind Satyanarayan, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2018. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Extracting and Retargeting Color Mappings from Bitmap Images of Visualizations, Jorge Poco, Angela Mayhua, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'17), Jan 2018. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Reverse-Engineering Visualizations: Recovering Visual Encodings from Chart Images, Jorge Poco, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), June 2017. [27% Acceptance Rate]

Voyager 2: Augmenting Visual Analysis with Partial View Specifications, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Zening Qu, Dominik Moritz, Riley Chang, Felix Ouk, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2017. [25% Acceptance Rate]

GraphScape: A Model for Automated Reasoning about Visualization Similarity and Sequencing, Younghoon Kim, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jessica Hullman, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2017. [25% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Nominee]

Regression by Eye: Estimating Trends in Bivariate Visualizations, Michael Correll, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2017. [25% Acceptance Rate]

Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics, Arvind Satyanarayan, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'16), Jan 2017. [22% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Award]

Surprise! Bayesian Weighting for De-Biasing Thematic Maps, Michael Correll, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'16)

Visual Debugging Techniques for Reactive Data Visualization, Jane Hoffswell, Arvind Satyanarayan, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis)

Parting Crowds: Characterizing Divergent Interpretations in Crowdsourced Annotation Tasks, Sanjay Kairam, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Feb 2016. [25% Acceptance Rate]

Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations

Beyond Weber's Law: A Second Look at Ranking Visualizations of Correlation, Matthew Kay, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'15), Jan 2016. [22% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Honorable Mention]

Reactive Vega: A Streaming Dataflow Architecture for Declarative Interactive Visualization, Arvind Satyanarayan, Ryan Russell, Jane Hoffswell, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'15), Oct 2015. [22% Acceptance Rate]

A Demonstration of the BigDAWG Polystore System, Aaron Elmore, Jennie Duggan, Michael Stonebraker, Magdalena Balazinska, Ugur Cetintemel, Vijay Gadepally, Jeffrey Heer, Bill Howe, Jeremy Kepner, Tim Kraska, Samuel Madden, David Maier, Timothy Mattson, Stavros Papadopoulos, Jeff Parkhurst, Nesime Tatbul, Manasi Vartak, Stan Zdonik. Proc. Very Large Database Endowment (PVLDB), Aug 2015.

Perfopticon: Visual Query Analysis for Distributed Databases, Dominik Moritz, Daniel Halperin, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), May 2015. [32% Acceptance Rate]

Refinery: Visual Exploration of Large, Heterogeneous Networks through Associative Browsing Sanjay Kairam, Nathalie Henry Riche, Steven Drucker, Roland Fernandez, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), May 2015. [32% Acceptance Rate]

TopicCheck: Interactive Alignment for Assessing Topic Model Stability, Jason Chuang, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart, Rebecca Weiss, Dustin Tingley, Justin Grimmer, Jeffrey Heer. NAACL-HLT, May 2015. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Forum77: An Analysis of an Online Health Forum Dedicated to Addiction Recovery, Diana MacLean, Sonal Gupta, Anna Lembke, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Mar 2015. [28% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Honorable Mention]

Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation, Jeffrey Heer, Joseph Hellerstein, Sean Kandel. Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Jan 2015.

Learning Perceptual Kernels for Visualization Design, Çağatay Demiralp, Michael Bernstein, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'14), Nov 2014. [23% Acceptance Rate]

The Effects of Interactive Latency on Exploratory Visual Analysis, Zhicheng Liu, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'14), Nov 2014. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Human Effort and Machine Learnability in Computer Aided Translation, Spence Green, Sida Wang, Jason Chuang, Jeffrey Heer, Sebastian Schuster, Christopher D. Manning. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Nov 2014.

Declarative Interaction Design for Data Visualization, Arvind Satyanarayan, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jeffrey Heer. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), Oct 2014. [22% Acceptance Rate]

Predictive Translation Memory: A Mixed-Initiative System for Human Language Translation, Spence Green, Jason Chuang, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), Oct 2014. [22% Acceptance Rate]

Lyra: An Interactive Visualization Design Environment, Arvind Satyanarayan, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2014. [25% Acceptance Rate]

Authoring Narrative Visualizations with Ellipsis, Arvind Satyanarayan, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2014. [25% Acceptance Rate]

BodyDiagrams: Improving Communication of Pain Symptoms through Drawing, Amy Jang, Diana MacLean, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Apr 2014. [23% Acceptance Rate]

invis: Exploring High-Dimensional RNA Sequences from In Vitro Selection, Çağatay Demiralp, Eric Hayden, Jeff Hammerbacher, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. IEEE Symp. on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis), Oct 2013.

Topic Model Diagnostics: Assessing Domain Relevance via Topical Alignment, Jason Chuang, Sonal Gupta, Christopher Manning, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Intl Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML), Jun 2013. [24% Acceptance Rate]

imMens: Real-time Visual Querying of Big Data, Zhicheng Liu, Biye Jiang, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2013. [28% Acceptance Rate]

Selecting Semantically-Resonant Colors for Data Visualization, Sharon Lin, Julie Fortuna, Chinmay Kulkarni, Maureen Stone, Jeffrey Heer. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), Jun 2013. [28% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Award]

The Efficacy of Human Post-Editing for Language Translation, Spence Green, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher Manning. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Apr 2013. [20% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Award]

Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study, Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology (VAST), Oct 2012. [29% Acceptance Rate, Invited for inclusion in IEEE TVCG Journal, Best Paper Honorable Mention]

GraphPrism: Compact Visualization of Network Structure, Sanjay Kairam, Diana MacLean, Manolis Savva, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces, May 2012.

Profiler: Integrated Statistical Analysis and Visualization for Data Quality Assessment, Sean Kandel, Ravi Parikh, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces, May 2012.

Termite: Visualization Techniques for Assessing Textual Topic Models, Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces, May 2012.

Color Naming Models for Color Selection, Image Editing and Palette Design, Jeffrey Heer, Maureen Stone. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2012. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Interpretation and Trust: Designing Model-Driven Visualizations for Text Analysis, Jason Chuang, Daniel Ramage, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2012. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Strategies for Crowdsourcing Social Data Analysis, Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2012. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Balancing Exertion Experiences, Florian Mueller, Frank Vetere, Martin Gibbs, Darren Edge, Stefan Agamanolis, Jennifer Sheridan, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2012. [23% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Nominee]

D3: Data-Driven Documents, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'11), Oct 2011. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Divided Edge Bundling for Directional Network Data, David Selassie, Brandon Heller, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'11), Oct 2011. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Orion: A System for Modeling, Transformation and Visualization of Multidimensional Heterogeneous Networks, Jeffrey Heer, Adam Perer. IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology (VAST), Oct 2011. [32% Acceptance Rate, Invited to a special edition of Information Visualization Journal]

ReVision: Automated Classification, Analysis and Redesign of Chart Images, Manolis Savva, Nicholas Kong, Arti Chhajta, Li Fei-Fei, Maneesh Agrawala, Jeffrey Heer. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), Oct 2011. [25% Acceptance Rate, Notable Paper Award]

Proactive Wrangling: Mixed-Initiative End-User Programming of Data Transformation Scripts, Philip J. Guo, Sean Kandel, Joseph Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), Oct 2011. [25% Acceptance Rate]

Peripheral Paced Respiration: Influencing User Physiology during Information Work, Neema Moraveji, Ben Olson, Truc Nguyen, Mahmoud Saadat, Yaser Khalighi, Roy Pea, Jeffrey Heer. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), Oct 2011. [25% Acceptance Rate]

MUSE: Reviving Memories Using Email Archives, Sudheendra Hangal, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey Heer. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), Oct 2011. [25% Acceptance Rate]

Visualizing Collaboration and Influence in the Open-Source Software Community, Brandon Heller, Eli Marschner, Evan Rosenfeld and Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Mining Software Repositories (MSR), May 2011. [35% Acceptance Rate]

Interactive Visual Specificatio, Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph Hellerstein and Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2011. [26% Acceptance Rate]

CommentSpace: Structured Support for Collaborative Visual Analytics, Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Joseph Hellerstein and Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2011. [26% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Nominee]

Groups Without Tears: Mining Social Topologies from Email, Diana MacLean, Sudheendra Hangal, Seng Keat Teh, Monica Lam and Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Feb 2011.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data, Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'10), Oct 2010. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Perceptual Guidelines for Creating Rectangular Treemaps, Nicholas Kong, Jeffrey Heer and Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'10), Oct 2010. [26% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Honorable Mention]

Tracing Genealogical Data with TimeNets, Nam Wook Kim, Stuart K. Card, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 241-248, May 2010. [20% Acceptance Rate]

Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 203-212, Apr 2010. [22.0% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Nominee]

Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization, Michael Bostock, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'09), 15(6), pp. 1121-1128, Nov/Dec 2009. [26.2% Acceptance Rate]

Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations, Jeffrey Heer, Nicholas Kong, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1303-1312, Apr 2009. [24.5% Acceptance Rate, Best Paper Award]

Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation, Jeffrey Heer, Jock D. Mackinlay, Chris Stolte, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'08), 14(6), pp. 1189-1196, Nov/Dec 2008. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Generalized Selection via Interactive Query Relaxation, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala, Wesley Willett. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 959-968, Apr 2008. [22% Acceptance Rate]

Design Considerations for Collaborative Visual Analytics, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 171-178, Nov 2007. [42% Acceptance Rate, Invited to a special edition of Information Visualization Journal]

Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics, Jeffrey Heer, George G. Robertson. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'07), 13(6), pp. 1240-1247, Nov/Dec 2007. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations, Wesley Willett, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'07), 13(6), pp. 1129-1136, Nov/Dec 2007. [23% Acceptance Rate]

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1029-1038, Apr 2007. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Momento: Support for Situated Ubicomp Experimentation, Scott Carter, Jennifer Mankoff, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 125-134, Apr 2007. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'06), 12(5), pp. 853-860, Sep/Oct 2006. [24% Acceptance Rate]

Multi-Scale Banking to 45°, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis'06), 12(5), pp. 701-708, Sep/Oct 2006. [24% Acceptance Rate]

TimeTree: Exploring Time Changing Hierarchies, Stuart K. Card, Bongwon Suh, Bryan Pendleton, Jeffrey Heer, John W. Bodnar. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 3-10, Oct 2006. [43% Acceptance Rate]

Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster, danah boyd, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. HICSS-39, Hawaii Int'l Conf. on System Sciences, Persistent Conversation Track, Jan 2006. [48% Acceptance Rate]

Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks, Jeffrey Heer, danah boyd. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), pp. 32-39, Oct 2005. [27% Acceptance Rate]

Prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card, James A. Landay. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 421-430, Apr 2005. [25% Acceptance Rate]

DOITrees Revisited: Scalable, Space-Constrained Visualization of Hierarchical Data, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 421-424, May 2004. [26% Acceptance Rate]

Presiding Over Accidents: System Direction of Human Action, Jeffrey Heer, Nathaniel Good, Ana Ramirez, Marc Davis, and Jennifer Mankoff. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 463-470, 2004. [16% Acceptance Rate]

liquid: Context-Aware Distributed Queries, Jeffrey Heer, Alan Newberger, Christopher Beckmann, Jason I. Hong. Proc. UbiComp 2003, 5th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 140-148, Oct 2003. [14% Acceptance Rate]

LumberJack: Intelligent Discovery and Analysis of Web Traffic Composition, Ed H. Chi, Adam Rosien, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. WEBKDD 2002: Web Mining for Usage Patterns and User Profiles, pp. 1-16, Jul 2002. [40% Acceptance Rate]

What Did They Do? Understanding Clickstreams with the WebQuilt Visualization System, Sarah Waterson, Jason I. Hong, Tim Sohn, Jeffrey Heer, Tara Matthews, James A. Landay. Proc. Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), pp. 94-102, 2002. [30% Acceptance Rate]

Separating the Swarm: Categorization Methods for User Access Sessions on the Web, Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 243-250, Apr 2002. [15% Acceptance Rate]

Journal Articles
Communicating with Interactive Articles, Fred Hohman, Matt Conlen, Jeffrey Heer, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau Distill, Sep 2020.

Local Decision Pitfalls in Interactive Machine Learning: An Investigation into Feature Selection in Sentiment Analysis, Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu, Daniel S. Weld, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 26(4), Jul 2019.

Agency plus Automation: Designing Artificial Intelligence into Interactive Systems, Jeffrey Heer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(6), pp. 1844-1850, Feb 2019.

Elevating the Status of Code in Ecology, K. Allison Smith, Jeffrey Heer, Ethan P. White. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31(1), pp. 4-7, 2016.

Natural Language Translation at the Intersection of AI and HCI, Spence Green, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning. Communications of the ACM, 58(9), pp. 46-53, Aug 2015.

Induced Lexico-syntactic Patterns Improve Information Extraction from Online Medical Forums, Sonal Gupta, Diana MacLean, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Jun 2014.

Visual Embedding: A Model for Visualization, Çağatay Demiralp, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Gordon L. Kindlmann, David H. Laidlaw, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Jan 2014.

Differentiating Language Usage through Topic Models, Daniel A. McFarland, Daniel Ramage, Jason Chuang, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsky. Poetics, Sep 2013.

Identifying Medical Terms in Patient-Authored Text: A Scalable, Crowdsourcing-Based Approach, Diana MacLean, Jeffrey Heer. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, May 2013.

Colony life history and lifetime reproductive success of red harvester ant colonies, Krista K. Ingram, Anna Pilko, Jeffrey Heer, Deborah M. Gordon. Journal of Animal Ecology, Jan 2013.

"Without the Clutter of Unimportant Words": Descriptive Keyphrases for Text Visualization, Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 19(3), pp. 1-29, Oct 2012.

Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis, Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman Communications of the ACM, 55(4), pp. 45-54, Apr 2012.

Research Directions in Data Wrangling: Visualizations and Transformations for Usable and Credible Data, Sean Kandel, Jeffrey Heer, Catherine Plaisant, Jessie Kennedy, Frank van Ham, Nathalie Henry Riche, Chris Weaver, Bongshin Lee, Dominique Brodbeck, Paolo Buono. Information Visualization, 10(4), pp. 271-288, Oct 2011.

A Tour through the Visualization Zoo, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky. Communications of the ACM, 53(6), pp. 59-67, Jun 2010.

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. Communications of the ACM, 52(1), pp. 87-97, Jan 2009.

Design Considerations for Collaborative Visual Analytics, Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala. Information Visualization, 7(1), pp. 49-62, 2008.

Does Binding of Synesthetic Color to the Evoking Grapheme Require Attention? Noam Sagiv, Jeffrey Heer, Lynn Robertson. Cortex, 42(2), pp. 232-242, 2006.

WebQuilt: A Proxy-based Approach to Remote Web Usability Testing, Jason I. Hong, Jeffrey Heer, Sarah Waterson, James A. Landay. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 19(3), pp. 263-285, 2001.

Book Chapters
The Design of Sense.us, Jeffrey Heer. In T. Segaran, J. Hammerbacher (eds), Beautiful Data, O'Reilly Media, 2009.

Point, Talk, Publish: Visualization and the Web, Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Maneesh Agrawala. In E. Zudilova-Seinstra, T. Adriaansen, R. van Liere (eds), Trends in Interactive Visualisation, Springer, 2008.

Creation and Collaboration: Engaging New Audiences for Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Frank van Ham, Sheelagh Carpendale, Chris Weaver, Petra Isenberg. In Fekete, A. Kerren, C. North, J. T. Stasko (eds), Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues in Visual Representation, Interaction, and Evaluation, Springer, 2008.

Short Papers
Designing a Prototype Interface for Visual Communication of Pain, Insun (Amy) Jang, Diana MacLean, Jeffrey Heer. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2013.

Wideband Displays: Mitigating Multiple Monitor Seams, Jock Mackinlay, Jeffrey Heer. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1521-1524, 2004.

All Together Now: Visualizing Local and Remote Actors of Localized Activity, Scott Lederer, Jeffrey Heer. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 1107-1110, 2004.

Efficient User Interest Estimation in Fisheye Views, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. Extended Abstracts, ACM Human Factors in Computing systems (CHI), pp. 836-837, 2003.

Workshop Papers
Black Hat Visualization, Michael Correll, Jeffrey Heer. Workshop on Dealing with Cognitive Biases in Visualisations (DECISIVe), IEEE VIS, 2017.

Towards A General-Purpose Query Language for Visualization Recommendation, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. ACM SIGMOD Human-in-the-Loop Data Analysis (HILDA), 2016.

The VERP Explorer: A Tool for Exploring Eye Movements of Visual-Cognitive Tasks Using Recurrence Plots, Cagatay Demiralp, Jesse Cirimele, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. Workshop on Eye Tracking and Visualization (ETVIS), 2015.

The Stanford Post-Editing Corpus: Collection and Analysis, Spence Green, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning. AMTA 2012 Workshop on Post-editing Technology and Practice, 2012.

An Algorithm and Analysis of Social Topologies from Email and Photo Tags, T. J. Purtell, Diana MacLean, Seng Keat Teh, Sudheendra Hangal, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey Heer. Workshop on Social Network Mining & Analysis, ACM KDD, 2011.

All Friends are not Equal: Using Weights in Social Graphs to Improve Search, Sudheendra Hangal, Diana MacLean, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey Heer. Workshop on Social Networking Mining and Analysis, ACM KDD, 2010.

Evaluating Visualizations to Unearth Behavior and Insight, Jeffrey Heer. Beyond Time and Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods for Information Visualization Workshop, ACM CHI, 2008.

Socializing Visualization, Jeffrey Heer. Social Visualization Workshop, ACM CHI, 2006.

Seeing the Invisible, Jeffrey Heer, Peter Khooshabeh. Workshop on Invisible & Transparent Interfaces, Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), 2004.

Capturing and Analyzing the Web Experience, Jeffrey Heer. Workshop on Automatic Capture, Representation, and Analysis of User Activity, ACM CHI, 2002.

Mining the Structure of User Activity using Cluster Stability, Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. Web Analytics Workshop, SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2002.

Identification of Web User Traffic Composition using Multi-Modal Clustering and Information Scent, Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. Workshop on Web Mining, SIAM Conference on Data Mining, pp. 51-58. Chicago, IL, 2001.

Demos
Social Flows: A System for Mining Social Topologies from Ego-centric Social Networks, Diana MacLean, Sudheendra Hangal, Seng Keat Teh, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2010.

Prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization, Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card, James A. Landay. User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2004.

Active Capture: Automatic Direction for Automatic Movies, Marc Davis, Jeffrey Heer, Ana Ramirez. ACM Multimedia, 2003.

Dissertation
Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration for Interactive Visualization, Jeffrey Heer. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, December 2008.


unrefereed publications

Natural Language Translation at the Intersection of AI and HCI, Spence Green, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning. ACM Queue. June 2015

Interactive Analysis of Big Data, Jeffrey Heer, Sean Kandel. ACM XRDS. September 2012

Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis, Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman. ACM Queue. February 2012

A Tour through the Visualization Zoo, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky. ACM Queue. May 2010

A Conversation with Jeff Heer, Martin Wattenberg, and Fernanda Viégas, Jeffrey Heer. ACM Queue. March 2010

Dangerous Liaisons, Jeffrey Heer. Ambidextrous Magazine. Issue Four, Summer 2006

Bits, Bäume, und Bilder, Jeffrey Heer. einfach komplex - Bildbäume und Baumbilder in der Wissenschaft. Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, 2005


patents

System and Method for Annotation of Data Visualizations. Frank van Ham, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viégas, Jesse Kriss, Matt McKeon, Jeffrey Heer. US Patent 9058316 B2. Filed 24 Aug 2007. Issued 16 Jun 2015.

Doubly Linked Visual Discussions for Data Visualization. Jeffrey Heer, Jesse Kriss, Frank van Ham, Fernanda B. Vieégas, Martin Wattenberg. US Patent Application 20090055756 A1. Filed 24 Aug 2007.

System and Method for Redistributing Interest in a Hierarchical Data Structure Representation. Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. US Patent 8010575 B2. Filed 30 Nov 2009. Issued 30 Aug 2011.

Systems and Methods for Identifying User Types using Multi-modal Clustering and Information Scent. Ed H. Chi, Jeffrey Heer, Peter Pirolli. US Patent 7260643 B2. Filed 30 Mar 2001. Issued 21 Aug 2007.

Systems and Methods for the Estimation of User Interest in Graph Theoretic Structures. Jeffrey Heer, Stuart K. Card. US Patent 7215337 B2. Filed 18 Dec 2003. Issued 8 May 2007.

Systems and Methods for Clustering User Sessions using Multi-modal Information including Proximal Cue Information. Jeffrey Heer, Ed H. Chi. US Patent 7043475 B2. Filed 19 Dec 2002. Issued 9 May 2006.


exhibitions

Apr-Sep 2005
einfach komplex - Bildbäume und Baumbilder in der Wissenschaft
Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
Curators: Andres Janser, Marius Kwint, Barbara Bader
Exhibited images of the Degree-of-Interest Tree browser and other visualizations.

26 Mar 2005
False Profit: LIQUIDATE
False Profit, San Francisco, CA
Interactive installation of the Vizster social network browser.

8 Mar 2012
The Art of Networks
Florida Institute of Technology
Curator: Isabel Meirelles
Exhibition of the Stanford Dissertation Browser.


invited talks

Agency + Automation
26 Sep 2018
UW Artificial Intelligence Seminar Seattle, WA
28 Jun 2018
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium Watsonville, CA

The Vega Project: Building an Ecosystem of Tools for Interactive Visualization
13 Sep 2018
O'Reilly Strata Conference New York, NY

Constructing Charts & Graphs
13 Mar 2018
National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium Washington, DC

Interactive Data Analysis: Visualization & Beyond
26 Jan 2018
Microsoft AnalystOne Redmond, WA
6 Nov 2017
Princeton University Princeton, NJ
16 Oct 2017
TDWI Accelerate Seattle Bellevue, WA
31 Jul 2017
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY
7 Jul 2017
PyData Seattle Redmond, WA
19 Apr 2017
Intel Data Science Tech Talk
13 Mar 2017
South by Southwest (SXSW) Austin, TX

Predictive Interaction
5 Jan 2018
Northwest Database Day Seattle, WA
28 Apr 2017
NorCal Database Day San Francisco, CA
3 Mar 2017
HCII Seminar, Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
14 Aug 2016
Keynote, ACM KDD Interactive Data Exploration & Analysis (IDEA) San Francisco, CA
24 Feb 2016
Design@Large Seminar, UC San Diego San Diego, CA

Vega: Declarative, Interactive Data Visualization
6 Jun 2016
Keynote, ACM SIGMOD Human-in-the-Loop Data Analysis (HILDA) San Francisco, CA

Principles of Data Visualization
16 Jun 2016
The Science & Art of Data Visualization Seattle, WA
4 Apr 2016
NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Symposium Seattle, WA
27 Jan 2016
Upper Columbia Science Conference Wenatchee, WA
5 Mar 2014
Keynote Address, Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI) Heidelberg, Germany

Interactive Data Analysis
20 Jan 2016
Seattle Tableau Users Group Seattle, WA
5 Nov 2015
ACM SIGSPATIAL Keynote Address Bellevue, WA
3 Jun 2015
UW Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Seattle, WA
29 May 2015
University of Chicago Research Computing Seminar Chicago, IL
26 May 2015
Seattle Data Analysis & Machine Learning (DAML) Meetup Seattle, WA
21 Feb 2015
Seattle Robotics Society Renton, WA
17 Nov 2014
Kavli Frontiers of Science Irvine, CA
29 Oct 2014
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA
4 Jun 2014
Hadoop Summit San Jose, CA
14 Apr 2014
Duke University Data + Journalism Seminar Durham, NC
20 Mar 2014
Northwestern University Technology & Social Behavior Seminar Evanston, IL
26 Feb 2014
Institute of Health Metrics & Evaluation (IHME) Seattle, WA
24 Jan 2014
Harvard, Weathering the Data Storm Cambridge, MA
4 Sep 2013
Berkeley EECS Colloquium Distinguished Lecture Berkeley, CA
22 Jul 2013
Gordon Research Conference Bryant University, RI
27 Jun 2013
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium Asilomar, CA
31 May 2013
DataEDGE, UCB Information School Berkeley, CA
23 May 2013
Visualization: From Data to Discovery, CalTech/JPL Pasadena, CA
25 Jan 2013
Stanford InfoLab Seminar Palo Alto, CA
9 Jul 2012
GraphLab Workshop San Francisco, CA
20 Jun 2012
Sony Corporation San Diego, CA
29 May 2012
University of Konstanz Konstanz, Germany
19 Apr 2012
UNC Charlotte Charlotte, NC
4 Apr 2012
University of Michigan, School of Information Ann Arbor, MI
2 Apr 2012
University of Michigan, CSE Ann Arbor, MI
29 Mar 2012
University of Washington, CSE Seattle, WA

Visualization for Discovery
26 Oct 2015
Visualization & Data Science (VDS) Symposium Chicago, IL
20 Jul 2015
Dato Data Science Summit San Francisco, CA

Raising the Bar (Chart): The Next Generation of Visualization Tools
6 Apr 2015
OpenVis Conf Invited Keynote Boston, MA

Charting a Path Forward: The Future of Data Visualization
20 Feb 2015
O'Reilly Strata Invited Keynote San Jose, CA

Architecting Interfaces that Learn (with Tye Rattenbury & Seshadri Mahalingam)
20 Feb 2015
O'Reilly Strata Conference San Jose, CA

Designing with Data
16 Oct 2015
O'Reilly Strata Conference New York, NY

Data Visualization & Data Stories
8 Apr 2014
Accel Design Conference San Francisco, CA

Secrets of the Agile Data Wrangler (with Joe Hellerstein)
10 Feb 2014
O'Reilly Strata Conference Santa Clara, CA

Productivity for Data Analysts: Visualization, Intelligence & Scale (with Joe Hellerstein)
1 Jul 2013
GraphLab Workshop San Francisco, CA

On Colors & Concepts
21 Jun 2013
CrowdFlower San Francisco, CA
28 Apr 2013
Keynote, ACM CHI Many People, Many Eyes Workshop Paris, France

imMens: Real-Time Visual Querying of Big Data
28 Jan 2013
Intel Corporation Santa Clara, CA

Scale out, Open up, Tell it straight: Challenges for visual data analysis
16 Feb 2012
Sequence, Inc. San Francisco, CA
4 Oct 2011
Keynote Address, WikiSym Conference. Mountain View, CA

The Legacy of George Robertson, in 3 Parts
25 Oct 2011
IEEE VisWeek Conferences. Providence, RI

Interactive Tools for Data Transformation and Visualization
12 Jan 2012
Hewlett-Packard Labs. Palo Alto, CA
15 Oct 2011
AIGA Pivot Design Conference. Phoenix, AZ
18 May 2011
IS&T Colloquium, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Greenbelt, MD
10 Mar 2011
BayCHI. Palo Alto, CA
22 Oct 2010
NPUC, IBM Almaden Research Centers. Almaden, CA
15 Oct 2010
LinkedIn. Mountain View, CA

Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization
3 Aug 2011
Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association. Miami Beach, FL

Data Visualisation and Social Cognition
8 Jun 2011
The Economist Ideas Economy - Information. Santa Clara, CA

Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
22 Mar 2011
The New York Times. New York, NY
25 Feb 2011
NICAR Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference. Raleigh, NC

Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception
19 Jul 2010
SF Crowdsourcing Work Meetup. San Francisco, CA

Designing Languages for Data Visualization
12 Jul 2010
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. Redmond, WA
27 Feb 2010
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium. Winter Park, CO

A Brief History of Data Visualization
19 Dec 2011
Cheskin Added Value. Redwood Shores, CA
23 Jun 2010
Lucasfilm. San Francisco, CA
22 Apr 2010
HCI Seminar, University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign, IL
13 Mar 2010
Stanford Workshop on Diagrammatic Reasoning. Palo Alto, CA
1 Feb 2010
Stanford Cognition and Language Research Workshop. Palo Alto, CA
6 Mar 2009
Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

Interactive Data Analysis
3 Jun 2010
Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab Retreat. Santa Cruz, CA

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Social Data Analysis
30 Jul 2009
Computational Journalism Workshop, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Stanford, CA
30 Jun 2009
SIGMOD Invited Session on HCI with Information. Providence, RI
12 Mar 2009
IBM Almaden Research Center. Almaden, CA
5 Jan 2009
Keynote Address, Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR). Monterey, CA

Commentary on 'Living Laboratories'
7 Feb 2009
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium. Winter Park, CO

Reflections on Visualization System Design
4 Dec 2008
VisMaster Workshop on Visual Analytics Software Architectures. Paris, France

Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Collaborative Information Visualization
3 Dec 2008
Paris HCI/InfoVis Seminar. Paris, France
25 Sep 2008
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. Giheung-gu, South Korea
17 Apr 2008
Pixar. Emeryville, CA
15 Apr 2008
Nokia Research Lab. Palo Alto, CA
18 Mar 2008
University of Toronto. Toronto, ON
11 Mar 2008
University of Washington. Seattle, WA
6 Mar 2008
Palo Alto Research Center, Inc. Palo Alto, CA
27 Feb 2008
Brown University. Providence, RI
25 Feb 2008
MIT Media Lab. Cambridge, MA
21 Feb 2008
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, GA
11 Feb 2008
Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA
4 Feb 2008
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA
31 Jan 2008
Microsoft Research. Seattle, WA
16 Nov 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cambridge, MA
15 Nov 2007
Harvard University. Cambridge, MA
14 Nov 2007
HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA.
26 Sep 2007
PowerSet, Inc. San Francisco, CA
29 Jun 2007
Yahoo! Research Berkeley Brain Jam. Berkeley, CA
23 Jun 2007
O'Reilly FOO Camp. Sebastopol, CA
19 Jun 2007
Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA
28 May 2007
Human-Centered Issues in Information Visualization. Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany
12 Apr 2007
DUB Seminar, University of Washington. Seattle, WA

Sensemaking and Information Visualization Panel
23 Feb 2008
Symposium on Computation and Journalism, Georgia Tech. Atlanta, GA

Visualization
6 Mar 2006
CME340: Computational Methods in Data Mining. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA
25 Apr 2005
CME340: Computational Methods in Data Mining. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks
14 Feb 2006
BayCHI: The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI. Palo Alto, CA

Presiding Over Accidents: Techniques for Designing Directive Systems
14 Oct 2005
Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

Exploring Enron: A Sketch of Visual Data Mining of E-Mail Archives
2 Jun 2005
Email Archive Visualization Workshop, HCIL University of Maryland. College Park, MD

190 Lines of Code
5 May 2005
050505: Zoning and Grinding. Center for New Media, University of California. Berkeley, CA

Prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization
9 Oct 2004
InfoVis 2004 Workshop on Information Visualization Software Architectures. Austin, TX

Undergraduate HCI Projects at UC Berkeley
8 Feb 2000
BayCHI: The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM SIGCHI. Palo Alto, CA

media coverage

8 Mar 2017
People of ACM - Jeffrey Heer. ACM.

20 Apr 2016
Research with the Interactive Data Lab. Data Stories Podcast.

30 Nov 2015
Two days of IEEE's 2022 Week Conference. Visual Business Intelligence.

3 Nov 2015
Science of Visualization. Scientific American Blog.

2 Nov 2015
From Academia to Entrepreneurship: In Dialogue with Joe Hellerstein, Sean Kandel, and Jeffrey Heer. Huffington Post.

16 Jun 2015
Better Living through Data Visualization. University of Chicago.

3 Dec 2014
Allen Foundation gives millions to teach machines common sense. GigaOM.

3 Dec 2014
Paul Allen artificial intelligence researchers. GeekWire.

3 Dec 2014
Competitive award to fund new approaches to artificial intelligence work. UW Today.

29 Oct 2014
Stanford system combines software with human intelligence to improve translation. Stanford Report.

2 Oct 2014
Trifacta's Jeffrey Heer Selected as a Recipient of a Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery Award. Trifacta Press Release.

2 Oct 2014
UW's Jeffrey Heer wins award to support data visualization research. UW Today.

17 Aug 2014
For Big-Data Scientists, 'Janitor Work' Is Key Hurdle to Insights. New York Times.

8 Jul 2014
Predictive Interaction Technology Frees Up Data Professionals' Time. Dataversity.

23 Jun 2014
The Productivity Snag That Keeps Data Scientists Up At Night. Fast Company Labs.

1 May 2014
Visual law services are worth a thousand words—and big money. ABA Journal.

20 Nov 2013
Mapping the Republic. HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

24 May 2013
Steering clear of the iceberg: three ways we can fix the data-credibility crisis in science. GigaOM.

4 Oct 2012
Why Trifacta is teaching humans and data to work together. GigaOM.

1 Oct 2012
Visualization for scientific discovery. Flowing Data.

26 Sep 2012
Trudging through the Digital Road. Scientific American Blog.

28 Jun 2012
Interview with Jeff Heer. Data Stories.

27 Jun 2012
UW recruits superstars of computer-science world. Seattle Times.

27 Jun 2012
Love and marriage: How the UW is making bets on the brains of big data and machine learning. GeekWire.

15 Mar 2012
Browser for Your Past. MIT Technology Review. (Discusses MUSE.)

5 Mar 2012
Taxonomy for interactive visual analysis. FlowingData.

2 Mar 2012
A Taxonomy of Visualization Techniques. Slashdot.

9 Nov 2011
Adobe falters with plan to abandon Flash technology on mobile devices. KTVU Channel 2.

15 Oct 2011
MUSE to sift the emails. New Scientist.

7 Jun 2011
Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next year. O'Reilly Radar.

26 May 2011
DataWrangler for your data formatting needs. FlowingData.

19 Apr 2011
22 free tools for data visualization and analysis. ComputerWorld.

18 Feb 2011
Facebook App Reveals Your Social Cliques. MIT Technology Review. (Discusses SocialFlows.)

8 Feb 2011
Strata 2011: Data as Democracy. Information Aesthetics. (Discusses the Stanford Dissertation Browser.)

4 Feb 2011
Wrangler. Metafilter.com.

3 Feb 2011
The Stanford Visualization Group Debuts Visual Tool for Cleaning Up Data. Read Write Web.

7 Dec 2010
Similarities between PhD dissertations. Flowing Data.

16 Nov 2010
Humanities Scholars Embrace Digital Technology. New York Times. (Features the Republic of Letters visualization built by my visualization students in collaboration with the Stanford Spatial History Lab.)

27 Sep 2010
7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College: Writing for New Forms. Wired Magazine.

7 Sep 2010
Journalism in the Age of Data. Documentary by Geoff McGhee, 2009-10 Stanford Knight Journalism Fellow.

26 Aug 2010
The Data Democracy. UCSC Science Notes 2010.

2 Aug 2010
Beautiful Data (book review, see segment on Chapter 12). Slashdot.

4 Jun 2010
Beyond the Pie Chart: Creating New Visualization Tools to Reveal Treasures in the Data. UX Magazine.

25 Feb 2010
New ways of visualising data.The Economist.

Dec 2009
Programming Language Enables Creative Visualization. IEEE Computer, 42(12), p. 25.

21 Sep 2009
Chart of the Day II. Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish.

19 Sep 2009
The Rise and Fall of the Secretary. Matthew Yglesias, ThinkProgress.org.

28 Aug 2009
Jeffrey Heer: Easy-to-use tools allow people to present data in creative and interesting ways. MIT Technology Review TR 35.

25 Jun 2009
Simpler Data Visualization. MIT Technology Review.

21 May 2009
Researchers visualize complex data. Stanford Daily.

1 Dec 2008
Towards a more social 'social visualization'. Sluijs, J.P. First Monday, 13(12).

16 Jun 2008
Happiness After the Digital Explosion. Abelson, H., Ledeen, K., Lewis, H. Addison-Wesley.

10 Mar 2008
Visualization Tools with Adobe Flash. Adobe Developer Connection.

27 Feb 2008
Journalism Symposium. Information Aesthetics.

25 Feb 2008
Journalists and Technologists. Rich Gordon, PBS Idea Lab.

3 Mar 2006
Numb3rs. Season 2, Episode 16: "Protest", CBS Television.

30 Jan 2006
Science Puts Enron E-Mail to Use. Wired News.

16 Jun 2005
500.000 E-Mails erzählen Geschichte der Enron-Pleite.

Der Spiegel.

13 Jun 2005
Exploring Enron. Metafilter.com.

7 Jun 2005
Social network analyzer for Enron's. BoingBoing.net.


professional activities
Steering Committee
IEEE Information Visualization 2015-2021

Assoc. Editor in Chief
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics 2016-2018

Associate Editor
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics 2014-2016

Papers Chair
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2013-2014
EuroVis 2017-2018

Subcommittee Chair
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2014-2016

Program Committee
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2011-2012
Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2014-2015
AAAI Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2013
ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2009, 2012
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2007-2009, 2011-2012
IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010
EuroVis 2010-2013
Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2009
Int'l Conf on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV) 2007

Posters Chair
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2011-2012

Publications Chair
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2008-2010

Workshop Organizer
VIS 2017 Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis with C. Scheidegger, R. Chang & D. Fisher
VIS 2015 Workshop on Data Systems for Interactive Analysis with C. Scheidegger, R. Chang & D. Fisher
CHI 2013 Workshop on Many People, Many Eyes with K. Reinecke, D. Flatla, E. Solovey, C. Gutwin & K. Gajos
CHI 2011 Workshop on Data Collection by the People, for the People with C. Robson, S. Kandel, & J. Pierce
Stanford Media-X 2009 Workshop on Visualization for Collective, Connective & Distributed Intelligence with B. Devarco & Katy Börner
Stanford Media-X 2009 Workshop on Data Visualization: Theory and Practice with D. Kasik & J. Gerth
CHI 2008 Social Data Analysis Workshop with F. B. Viégas, M. Wattenberg, & M. Agrawala
Berkeley Visualization Workshop, 12 May 2006 with M. Agrawala

Instructor
VLDB 2009 Visualization + Social Data Analysis Tutorial with J. Hellerstein
SIGGRAPH 2008 Computation + Journalism Course with I. Essa, B. Stenger, M. Agrawala, E. Ulken, & C. Sladden

Reviewer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2004-2015, 2018
ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2018
ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2016
ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2007-2012, 2016
ACM SIGGRAPH 2008-2014
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009-2010
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions (TOCHI) 2009-2015
Human-Computer Interaction Journal 2010
Information Visualization Journal 2010-2013
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2008-2015
IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2005-2012
IEEE Visualization (Vis) 2006-2011
IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) 2006-2010
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2004-2010
IEEE Pacific Visualization 2008-2010
EuroVis 2009-2014
World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2009
Graphics Interface (GI) 2006, 2009-2010
Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics) 2006
Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2003
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) 2007
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (JECR) 2008

Committees
Direct Admits Seminar Organizer, Computer Science & Engineering Dept, UW, 2017
Graduate Admissions, Computer Science & Engineering Dept, UW, 2015-2016
Faculty Recruiting, Computer Science & Engineering Dept, UW, 2014, 2020
MS Admissions, Computer Science Dept, Stanford, 2013
Graduate Admissions, Computer Science Dept, Stanford, 2009-2012
Graduate Admissions, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley 2004, 2006, 2008

Member
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)


awards

2021
IEEE InfoVis 10 Year Test-of-Time Award for "D3: Data-Driven Documents"
ACM SIGCHI Academy

2020
IEEE InfoVis 10 Year Test-of-Time Award for "Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data"

2019
IEEE Visualization Academy

2018
IEEE InfoVis Best Paper Award

2017
IEEE Visualization Achievement Award
ACM CHI Best Paper Nominee

2016
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
IEEE InfoVis Best Paper Award

2015
IEEE InfoVis Best Paper Honorable Mention
ACM CSCW Best Paper Honorable Mention

2014
Moore Foundation Data-Driven Discovery Investigator
Allen Distinguished Investigator
Kavli Fellow

2013
EuroVis Best Paper Award
ACM CHI Best Paper Award

2012
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow
IEEE VAST Best Paper Honorable Mention
ACM CHI Best Paper Nominee

2011
ACM UIST Notable Paper Award
ACM CHI Best Paper Nominee

2010
IEEE InfoVis Best Paper Honorable Mention (x2)
ACM CHI Best Paper Nominee

2009
MIT Technology Review TR35, Innovators Under the Age of 35
C.V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley
ACM CHI Best Paper Award

2006
Microsoft Graduate Fellowship
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

2004
Outstanding Performance Award, A3I NIMD Team, PARC, Inc.

2002

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (declined)
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Finalist

2001
Warren Y. Dere Engineering Design Award, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley
Honors Degree Program, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley

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