Studying Simulation Data with Visual Data Science
Numerical simulation has become indispensable in many fields of science and applications, including engineering, much of natural sciences, and many more. Typically, the computed data are rich and extensive with commonly detailed spatiotemporal resolution and numerous computed variates – we also appreciate a fascinating trend towards ensemble simulation, resulting in parametric and / or stochastic datasets. Visual data science, based on the integration of analytical / computational means with interactive visualization, offers scientists as well as practitioners to better exploit the rich deliveries of their numerical simulation approach. Particular challenges include the increased dimensionality of the data, the associated semantics, which often required a dedicated treatment of different aspects of the data. In this talk, we review visualization research that was done in tight collaboration with domains such as automotive engineering and Earth sciences. We see examples for exploiting modern modeling approaches and we recognize the potential of visual data science to facilitate an exchange between expert users and their challenging data.
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Helwig Hauser is professor in visualization and the co-leader of the Center for Data Science, CEDAS, at the University of Bergen (UiB), Norway. Before joining UiB in 2007 to build up a new research group on visualization (vis.UiB.no), Helwig Hauser was the Scientific Director of the VRVis Research Center in Vienna, Austria, where he earlier led the basic research group on visualization (since 2000). Helwig Hauser got his education (in Computer Science, with specialization on visualization) from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria (TU Wien), where he also completed his PhD in 1998 and his Habilitation in 2003 (later awarded by the Heinz Zemanek Award). In 2022, we was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. His interests are broad within visualization, visual data science, and related fields, and he’s an active member of the international visualization community, having served / serving, for ex., as the Editor in Chief for journal Computer Graphics Forum, as Overall Paper Chair for the IEEE VIS conference, as well as on a variety of Steering Committees.