Ph.D. projects

Visualization grammar in the wild 2022

Grammars are great, but how are analysts using them?

Visualizing electronic orbital energies 2021

Interpreting results from the many-body expansion algorithm

🤖 Datamations 2020

Automatically generating animated explainers for data analysis pipelines

📊 A Probabilistic Grammar of Graphics 2019

Turning a probability distribution into a visualization used to be difficult and even error-prone, but not anymore.

⚡️ Uncertainty vizes for power grid simulations 2019

Visualization internship with Dr. Kristi Potter at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

🚙 Your car is tracking you 2019

Inferring geolocation from innocuous car data.

🧻 Understanding preregistration 2018

More researchers are adopting prereigstration, but are current tools serving them well?

🌳 The garden of statistically reliable visualizations 2018

Visual analytics tools should no longer be a garden to harvest interesting but probably unreliable patterns.

🎭 Does Risk Theatre work? 2018

Risk theatre is a variant of icon arrays, where we color the seat map of a theatre according to some proportion we want to communicate.

Undergraduate projects

🏔 Climate model ensemble similarity comparisons 2016

SIParCS internship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Worked with Dr. Rick Brownrigg.

🙇 Physiological computing 2015

I worked with Professor Evan Peck at Bucknell on a project about using physiological signals to improve decision-making.

⚗️ Mussels and hydraulic fracturing 2014

As a freshman, I dabbled in geochemistry with Professor Carl Kirby in Geology & Environmental Geosciences at Bucknell University.