information visualization researcher, creative developer
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→A Google Chrome extension that leverages cognitive cartography and creates personalized spatial analogies of unfamiliar distances, areas and locations.
→Re-imagination of a smart refrigerator concept focused on reducing food waste and allowing users to make responsible decisions about foods.
→Live multiplayer game where players navigate ships around a central star's gravity well and try to shoot down other players. Placed at Facebook Hackathon Seattle.
→Analyzing and visualizing a dataset with R and D3.js to explore questions about Urbanization and Health Indicators in various countries.
→Hi, I'm Francis! I'm currently a Masters Computer Science student at the University of British Columbia where I am advised by Professor Tamara Munzner. I am member of InfoVis group at UBC and the Design for People initiative at UBC. I was previously advised by Professor Jessica Hullman at the University of Washington/Northwestern University and a member of the Midwest Uncertainty Collective.
My research interests rest at the confulence of education, information visualization, and design. More specifically, I’m interested in how readers interpret visualizations and and how visual techniques, such as animation, color, etc. lead to better communication of seeingly complex topics. Areas I believe this to particularly impactful are the education of statistics, statistical/data literacy and scientific journalism.
Recently, I've been exploring research directions. I'm curious of methods in information visualization research, visualization of provenance for program comprehension, scientific reproducibility and user pre-attentive bias when reading visualization.
Previusly, I've worked on visualization tools to support journalists integration of readers'
beliefs into
articles, and on the evaluation of visualizations to make them statistically reliable.
I also
Between research, coding, spending time in cafes and being part of the local music scene, I love drinking and learning about coffee, cooking, and climbing.