"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." (R. Hamming)

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pretty pictures.

 

Welcome to the VDA (Visualization and Data Analysis) group!

We are a group of diverse people with the aim to create better tools and algorithms for analyzing and displaying data.
Our roots can be found in areas such as computer graphics, image processing, and human-computer interaction, our current focus aligns well with the challenges presented by the field of data science.

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 News & Events

We congratulate Laura for winning the Hedy Lamarr Price of the city of Vienna. We are very proud of her. Very well deserved!

We are very happy and proud to have Laura Koesten being nominated for the Hedy-Lamarr Price 2024!

Today a year ago, Torsten Möller was inducted into the IEEE VGTC Visualization Academy​​​​​​​. 

A catalogue of lay people’s information needs about AI systems

Congratulations to Regina Schuster, Kathleen Gregory, Torsten Möller, and Laura Koesten, whose paper on climate visualization just got published in the IEEE Transactions on...

Congratulations to Kathleen Gregory, Laura Koesten, Regina Schuster, Torsten Möller, and Sarah Davies, whose paper was recently published by the Harvard Data Science Review.