About EagerEyes

The Site

EagerEyes is Robert Kosara's place to reflect on the world of information visualization and visual communication of data. The goal is to help digest things that are happening in the field and discuss developments that may be tangential or early, but that are likely to have an impact.

The original idea for the site involved the interplay of art and science in visualization. While the focus has shifted, questions of representation are touched upon regularly. In fact, I believe that visualization can be vastly improved by a better understanding issues of representation and reading of data.

Other topics of interest include visualization for the masses, open data, and where the field of visualization is heading. Criticism of visualization techniques and applications, websites, and books is also a regular feature. Discussions of visualization techniques provide insights into the thinking behind them. During conferences (VisWeek, in particular), the site is also used for live micro-blogging.

The first posting on EagerEyes went live on October 1, 2006. While there have been times with more and less activity, the current posting frequency is about once per week (usually on Monday or Tuesday).

This is not a blog. Blogs tend to aim for quick, current commentary. The articles on this website are meant to be of value over a longer time (except for the ones in the blog category), and are usually much longer than the typical blog posting.

Comments, suggestions, and criticism are strongly encouraged and always welcome. Feel free to comment on articles or send me a message through the contact form.

The Author

Robert Kosara is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte. His main research interests are information visualization for visual communication and theoretical foundations of visualization. Robert received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Vienna University of Technology (Vienna, Austria). His list of publications can be found online on his vanity website.

Robert can be found on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing. You can use this site's contact form to send him an email.