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SUMMARY:TBC - Ben Fry (http://benfry.com/)
DTSTART:20090423T100000Z
DTEND:20090423T110000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:The ability to collect and store data continues to increase\, 
 but our ability to understand it remains unchanged. In an attempt to gain 
 better understanding of data\, fields such as information visualization\, 
 data mining and graphic design are employed\, each solving an isolated par
 t of the specific problem\, but failing in a broader sense: there are stil
 l too many unsolved data visualization problems. As a solution\, I seek to
  bring the individual fields together as part of a single process. I'll be
  showing examples of work developed as part of my Ph.D. dissertation at th
 e MIT Media Laboratory\, as a postdoc at the Eli & Edythe L. Broad Institu
 te of MIT & Harvard\, and now as Director of Seed Visualization and its Ph
 yllotaxis Lab. The work ranges from illustrations of data for magazines an
 d journals to software tools used by geneticists to interactive database a
 pplications for Fortune 10 corporations.\nhttp://benfry.com/\nhttp://proce
 ssing.org  \n
LOCATION:Lecture-room large(126 seats) Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thom
 son Avenue (Off Madingley Road)\, CB3 0FB
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