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Seeing Machines Think.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Eurovis Conference (to come)
Barcelona, June 2017


Visualization for machine learning-and human learning, too.
Martin Wattenberg
Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar, Fields Institute
Toronto. March 16, 2017


Augmenting Human and Machine Intelligence with Data Visualization.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Harvard Business School, March 8, 2017

2016


Making Data Matter: Visualization as Communication Medium.
Fernanda Viégas
IACS Seminar, Harvard University
Cambridge, Nov. 4, 2016


Making Data Matter: Visualization as Communication Medium.
Martin Wattenberg
Bentley University, Nov. 1, 2016


Visualizing a World in Motion: Designing for Real-Time Data.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Inauguration of the Northeastern Visualization Consortium.
Northeastern University, Sept. 23, 2016


Art as Partner.
Fernanda Viégas
Music, Art and Machine Intelligence Workshop
San Francisco, June 2016.


Visualizing a World in Motion: Designing for Real-Time Data.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
UC Irvine, April 29, 2016


Seeing Machines Think.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
OpenVis Conference
Boston, April 2016


Visualization.
Martin Wattenberg
The Art of Data Visualization
Columbia University, April 2016


Social Visualization.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Class lecture, CS 171.
Harvard University, April, 2016


Visualization for everyone.
Women TechMakers keynote
Fernanda Viégas
Cambridge, MA. March 2016

2015


Visualization and Big Data.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
VizUM Symposium
University of Miami. Nov. 12, 2015


Visualization Design.
Fernanda Viégas
Graduate Seminar, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Cambridge, September 2015


Visualization for Everyone: Public, Social, and Collaborative
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
CS Colloquium
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, September 2015


Data Visualization.
Fernanda Viégas
Girls Who Code
Cambridge MA. July 2015.


The Future of Data Visualization.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Boston 2035 Xconomy
Babson College, July 17 2015


Social Visualization.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Class lecture, CS 171.
Harvard University, April, 2015


Visualizations at Scale.
Martin Wattenberg
Class lecture, Stats 101
Harvard University, March 2015


Visualizing Live Data.
Martin Wattenberg
Gates Scholar Lecture
Boston, January 2015


From Chocolate to Hurricanes.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Nieman Fellow Lecture
Harvard University, January 2015

2014


Data Visualization Now.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Class lecture, Social Computing Group
MIT Media Lab Cambridge, Dec 2014


Visualization Culture: Data Literacy for the Rest of Us.
Fernanda Viégas
4As CreateTech 2014 (humans+ machines+environments).
Boston, Nov 13 2014


Making the invisible visible.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Art + Environment Conference
Nevada Museum of Art, October 2014


Visualizing Live Data.
Martin Wattenberg
Albright Challenge Foundation, Cambridge, Sept. 2014


Visualization as medium.
Fernanda Viégas
Boston Girl Geeks keynote
Boston, March 2014


Storytelling and Visualization Genres.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Tapestry Conference
Annapolis, March 2014


Thinking with Your Eyes.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Arts, Humanities & Sciences Symposium
Harvard University, February 2014


Data Visualization.
Martin Wattenberg
University of Maryland, February 2014


Seeing the Wind.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, March 2014


Data Visualization.
Martin Wattenberg
University of Maryland, February 2014


Collaborative Visualization.
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, February 2014

2013


Visualization for Everyone
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Links 2013, MIT, July 10, 2013


Visualizing Social Weather and Climate
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
ICWSM 13, Cambridge, July 10, 2013


From Hurricanes to the Harlem Shake
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Information Design and Visualization
Northeastern University, June 20, 2013


Pictures of Arguments, Songs, & Ancient Texts
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis, June 6, 2013


Visualizing Natural and Cultural Phenomena
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
In Visualization: From Data to Discovery
CalTech, May 23, 2013


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, 2013


Social Visualization
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Class lecture, CS 171
Harvard University, April 27, 2013


Seeing Invisible Influences
Martin Wattenberg
Center for Advanced Study
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, April 3, 2013


Wind map and other visualizations from hint.fm
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Center for Geographic Analysis
Harvard University, March 20, 2013


Time and time again: Artist talk
Martin Wattenberg
March 13, 2013
Harvard Medical School, March 13, 2013


Panel: Data Visualization
Ben Fry, Joe Ward, Martin Wattenberg, Sam Hinkie (mod)
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Boston, March 1, 2013


Visualization Culture: Data Literacy for the Rest of Us
Fernanda Viégas
Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science
Maui, January 8, 2013

2012


Panel: What problems does network research need to solve?
Martin Wattenberg, Steve Whittaker, Ken Gabriel, David Zafrilla-Gonzales
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks
MIT, November 8, 2012


Visualization and the Joy of Revelation
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
ATC Lecture / Berkeley Center for New Media
Berkeley, October 1, 2012


Catching the wind: Visualizing and repurposing public data
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) 2012
Boston, June 14 2012

Seeing Invisible Influences
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Eyeo Festival
Minneapolis, June 6, 2012
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What Data Scientists Can Learn From Data Artists
Martin Wattenberg
DataEDGE conference
Berkeley, June 1, 2012

Social Visualization
Martin Wattenberg
CS 171 (Harvard University)
Cambridge, April 12, 2012

Visualization and Journalism
Martin Wattenberg
Seminar for Knight Science Fellows (MIT)
Cambridge, March 23, 2012

Through the Looking Glass: Talking about the World with Visualization
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
SIGCSE 2012 keynote
Raleigh NC. March 3, 2012

Visualization: The Art of Revelation
Martin Wattenberg
The Thirteenth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology
Connecticut College, March 2, 2012


2011


Art & Data Visualization
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Visualizing Biological Data (VizBi) 2011 keynote
Cambridge, March 18, 2011.
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Talk: Visualizing Culture; Panel: Storytelling without words
Martin Wattenberg
Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR) 2011
Raleigh NC, Feb. 24, 2011

Visualizing Culture
Martin Wattenberg
Tufts University Computer Science Colloquium
Medford MA, Feb. 17, 2011


2010

The Joy of Revelation
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Digital Arts@Google
New York, August 12 2010
Watch video

Can the Internet Fix Politics?
Fernanda Viégas & Martin Wattenberg
Personal Democracy Forum 2010
New York, June 3, 2010
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The Joy of Revelation
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Art + Design Lecture Series, Northeastern University, March 10, 2010

Visualizing the Inner Lives of Texts
Fernanda Viégas
Distinguished Speaker, Center for Technology and Social Behavior speaker series, Northwestern University, February 18 2010


2009

Public Visualization  [version with English subtitles]
Fernanda Viégas, November 14 2009
TEDx S
ão Paulo (Brazil)

Artistic Infovis
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Systems Biology Artist Talk Series, Harvard University, November 4, 2009

keynote iconVisualizing the Inner Lives of Texts
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
ACM Wikisym Symposium,
October 25, 2009

keynote iconTransforming Data Access Through Public Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference,
June 29, 2009

Visualizing Text
Martin Wattenberg
English Department,
Stanford University, May 4, 2009.

Shakespeare, God, and Lonely Hearts: Transforming Data Access with Many Eyes
Martin Wattenberg
Mathematics Dept.,
United States Military Academy, West Point, April 15, 2009.

Social Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
CS 171,
Harvard University, April 13, 2009.

A Public Dialogue about Visual Perception and New Media
Martin Wattenberg and Donald Hoffman
Center for Transformative Scholarship, University of Southern California, Mar. 6, 2009.

Shakespeare, God, and Lonely Hearts: Transforming Data Access with Many Eyes
Martin Wattenberg
UCLA Dept. of Statistics,
Mar. 5, 2009.

Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis and Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and
Martin Wattenberg
Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Feb. 19, 2009.

From Wikipedia to Visualization, and Back
Martin Wattenberg
Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Jan. 26, 2009.


2008

Visualizing Song and Story
Martin Wattenberg.
Syracuse University School of Architecture, Syracuse, Nov. 6, 2008.

keynote iconSeeing Words
Martin Wattenberg.
Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Chicago, Nov. 3, 2008.

Seeing Words
Martin Wattenberg.
Ideas
Boston Conference, Boston, Oct. 30.

Shakespeare, God, and Lonely Hearts: Transforming Data Access with Many Eyes
Martin Wattenberg.
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, Sept. 25.

keynote iconMany Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis and Visualization
Martin Wattenberg.
ASIDIC annual meeting,
Salem Mass., Sept. 15, 2008.

Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis and Visualization
Martin Wattenberg.
Joint Statistical Meetings 2008,
Denver, Aug. 6.

keynote iconShakespeare, God, and Lonely Hearts: Transforming Data Access with Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Pittsburgh, June 16-20 2008.

In/Visible: Graphic Data Revealed Fernanda Viégas.
Fresh Dialogue 24, AIGA/NY, The New York Times Building, May 23 2008.

Visualization in the Public Sphere, or: I Can See My House From Here
Martin Wattenberg.
Visualization Day, City
College of New York, April 30 2008

Social Visualization
Martin Wattenberg.
CS171, Harvard University, April 23 2008.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
HCI Seminar, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 13 2008.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization [video]
Fernanda Viégas.
Arts, Media and Engineering, Arizona State University, March 6 2008.

Many Eyes: Online Collaborative Data Visualization
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.
Quantitative Reasoning 46 : The Visual Display of Information: The Art of Numbers, Harvard University, February 26 2008.

Data is Beautiful: Looking at Markets in New Ways
Martin Wattenberg
O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference, New York City, February 7 2008.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization [video]
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. 
Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University, February 1, 2008.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization [video]
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. 
PARC Forum: Going Beyond Web 2.0, PARC, January 31, 2008.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. 
HCI Special Talk, University of California, Berkeley, January 30, 2008.


2007

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.
Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard University, December 5 2007.

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas
MHCI Seminar, University of Madeira, Portugal. November 16 2007.

Visualizing Wikipedia: A tale of life, love, and bureaucracy.
Martin Wattenberg
ICCA/ACM/IEEE meeting, MIT, November 15 2007.

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas
Visualizar Symposium, Medialab Prado, Madrid - November 12 & 13 2007

Visualizing and Analysing Social Networks
Fernanda Viégas
Social Network/ing Week, University of Toronto, November 2 2007.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Google, October 26 2007.

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), October 25 2007.

Visual Text Analysis by Lay Users: The Case of "Many Eyes"
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, MIT October 23 2007

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, Applied Statistics Workshop, October 10 2007.

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
IDEA 2007, New York City, October 4-5 2007.

Future of Visualization and Health
Martin Wattenberg
Future of Health Technology Summit, MIT, September 24.

Visualização de informações: o designer e um universo de dados
Fernanda Viégas
Escola Superior de Design Industrial (ESDI), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - September 11 2007.

Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - September 10 2007.

keynote iconVisual Thinking at a Global Scale: The Story of Many Eyes
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Carnegie Mellon University,
Emergence 2007, September 8 2007.

Many Eyes: Democratizing Visualization
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Carnegie Mellon University, HCII Seminar Series, September 5 2007.

Visualizing Wikipedia: A tale of life, love, and bureaucracy
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
ACS meeting, Chemical Information Division luncheon, August 20 2007.

Open Data Visualization: From Biomedical Informatics to Romance Movies
Martin Wattenberg
Boston Medical Center -
Medical Informatics Seminar July 18, 2007

Visualizing Wikipedia: A tale of life, love, and bureaucracy
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NEASIS&T).
NEASIS&T Awards Dinner. MIT Faculty Club, May 10 2007.

Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis
Cornell Microsoft International Symposium on Self-Organizing Online Communities Fernanda Viégas.
Cornell University, March 29-31, 2007.

Visualizing Wikipedia: Then and Now
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Center for Collective Intelligence, Spring 2007 Seminar Series, March 15, 2007. [presentation slides]

Many Eyes: A Site for Social Analysis
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Comparative Media Studies Colloquium Series, March 8, 2007. [presentation slides]


2006

The Social Life of Visualizations
Martin Wattenberg.
University of Maryland, November 7, 2006.

Visualization and Contemporary Art
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg.
Infovis 2006, Cambridge, MA.

Democratizing Visualization -- MP3
Fernanda Viégas.
IDEA Conference. Seattle, October 24, 2006.

Mapping the Invisible
Martin Wattenberg.
Carnegie Mellon, Design Lecture Series, October 3, 2006.

Can Visualization Help?
Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Ben Shneiderman.
Wikimania 2006, Cambridge, MA.

Response to Jaron Lanier's Article on Digital Maoism
Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg. Edge, May 30, 2006.

Blogging Ethics
Fernanda Viégas.
Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics. Ohio University, April 7, 2006.

Wikipedia as Bureaucratic Third Place
Fernanda Viégas. |
MSR Social Computing Symposium, 2006.


2005

Design for Revelation
Martin Wattenberg.
Rhode Island School of Design, Digital Media and Culture, Dec. 9, 2005.

The Social Life of Visualizations
Martin Wattenberg. MIT
CSAIL HCI Seminar, Nov. 4, 2005.

The Social Life of Visualizations
Martin Wattenberg. U. C. Berkeley
SIMS Distinguished Lecture, Oct. 12, 2005.

Visualizing Social Interactions and Collaboration History
Fernanda Viégas. MSR Social Computing Symposium, 2005.