Information Visualization

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Marti Hearst

Professor

Human-computer interaction, information visualization, computational linguistics, search and information retrieval, improving MOOCs and online education

Recent Publications

An Evaluation of Semantically Grouped Word Cloud Designs

April 22, 2019

Enabling Open Learning Analytics with an Open Source Platform for Data Distribution, Analysis, and Visualization. Technology, Knowledge and Learning

January 25, 2016

Search User Interfaces

September 30, 2009

New book by I School professor Marti Hearst focuses on search engines' user interfaces and how people use them.

UIs for Faceted Navigation: Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems

October 23, 2008

Tag Clouds: Data Analysis Tool or Social Signaller?

January 8, 2008

Improving Aviation Safety with Information Visualization: A Flight Simulation Study

January 1, 2005

User Interfaces and Visualization

January 1, 1999

Information Visualization news

Study Shows Election Data Visualization Design Can Be a Powerful Persuasion Tool

October 18, 2024

From election forecasts and pandemic dashboards to stock market charts and scientific figures, many people trust data visualizations as objective truths and neutral representations of reality.

Parameswaran accepts the 2019 VLDB Early Career Research Contributions Award.

Democratizing Data Science: Parameswaran Receives the 2019 VLDB Award

September 27, 2019

Assistant professor at the Berkeley School of Information, Aditya Parameswaran, has been awarded the 2019 Very Large Data Bases Early Career Award.

Virtual Reality as a Medical Aid: Dylan Fox Leads Prototyping at Cal

September 20, 2019

Word Clouds: We Can’t Make Them Go Away, So Let’s Improve Them

April 23, 2019

Marti Hearst’s research finds that grouping words visually that have related meaning improves people’s ability to detect underlying categories.

How to Teach Information Visualization: Marti Hearst’s Secrets

November 10, 2015

Information visualization has expanded beyond the research lab into a wide range of professional disciplines and fields. Professor Marti Hearst has taught information visualization at the I School since 1998.

Scientific American Blog Cites Marti Hearst's IEEE VIS Panel Discussion

November 3, 2015

Professor Marti Hearst Discusses Next-Generation Infoviz at Inaugural OpenScience Meetup

August 27, 2015

I School Faculty & Students Head to Paris for CHI 2013

April 25, 2013

Eight I School faculty and students will be presenting their research at the upcoming CHI Conference in Paris, France.

Marti Hearst Predicts the Future of Search User Interfaces

November 3, 2011

The future of search will include speech input, social searching, and natural language queries, according to I School professor Marti Hearst.