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Portrait: Jason Dykes

Robert Kosara / May 24, 2018

Portrait: Jason Dykes

Jason Dykes is professor at City University London, where he also co-leads the giCentre. He straddles the line between cartography and visualization, publishing in both communities and combining ideas from both – which have led to crossover ideas like spatially-ordered treemaps and map lineups.

Jason is also the driving force behind the Velo Club de VIS, which organizes long bike rides on the Saturday immediately following VIS. These rides are much better organized than my sloppy attempts at running groups, with fancy bike rentals and custom jerseys.

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Robert Kosara is Senior Research Scientist at Tableau Software, and formerly Associate Professor of Computer Science. His research focus is the communication of data using visualization. In addition to blogging, Robert also runs and tweets. Read More…

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