Open Tech Calendar

Hi all,

Welcome to (what was going to be) our October meeting. Why in November, you (justifiably) ask?

Because the world’s biggest Visualisation conference, VIS 2019 (ieeevis.org) clashes with our normal slot and - since several of our members are attending - we thought it would be a good idea to postpone a little and take the opportunity to hear some first-hand reports on the latest developments!

1) Towards Futuristic Visual Storytelling: Authoring Data-Driven Infographics in Augmented Reality.

We will start of the evening with a talk by Zhutian Chen (chenzhutian.org) who will be hotfoot back from having presented no less than *three* full papers at VIS. Zhutian, a Hong Kong Univ of Science & Tech PhD student, is currently visiting Edinburgh. A member of HKUST VisLab, his research spans infovis, AR, and ML. Specifically, he is working on tools and techniques powered by deep learning for computer vision to facilitate the creation of visualizations in and for AR environments.

2) Ben Bach will tell us about his favourite conference presentations from VIS.

The VIS conference is the premier forum for advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualisation, combining meetings on visual analytics, information and scientific visualisation, plus a diverse range of events on data science, visualisation arts, new applications, practice, and challenges. Plus this time, it’s in Vancouver. It’s a hard life, but someone has to do it.

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As usual, there will be space if you have anything to share. We're also open to suggestions for topics and speakers, so let us know if you have someone or something in mind.

*Venue: the Inspace Gallery at the University of Edinburgh's Bayes Centre for Data Science. Enter through the door at the *south east* corner of the building (glass door aside the white poles in the bottom right of the photo above), right opposite Edinburgh Central Mosque.

ben, brendan, uta & gordon

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