Carolina Nobre

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Computer Science Department. My research area is Data Visualization, with my current research projects focusing on creating user adaptive interactive data visualizations.

Before joining the University of Toronto, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Hanspeter Pfister's Visual Computing Group at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. I received my PhD with Alex Lex at the Visualization Design Lab at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the School of Computing at the University of Utah. I have a master’s degree in software engineering from the Harvard Extension School, as well as a previous life as an oceanographer studying the Arctic Ocean and its effect on our planet.

I am the receipient of the Harvard Data Science Inititative Fellowship, as well as a 2020 Wojcicki Troper Fellow. I also received a VGTC Outstanding Dissertation Honorable Mention for my PhD Dissertation on Visualizing Multivariate Networks.

I am data visualization designer and researcher. My research focuses on multivariate network visualizations and investigating how visual literacy can be captured and increased via provenance analysis and experiential learning approaches. Most recently I was awarded an HDSI research grant to investigate the mechanisms by which visualization can promote trust in science

Information Design and Visual Analytics | INSH 5302 (Northeastern University)
Lead Faculty Spring 2022
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Data Visualization | ISYS6645 (Boston College)
Lead Faculty Fall 2021, Spring 2022
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Data Visualization | CS 171 (Harvard)
Teaching Fellow Fall 2020, Fall 2021
http://www.cs171.org

Topics in Data Visualization | CS 271 (Harvard)
Teaching Fellow Spring 2021
https://cs-271.github.io/

Visualization for Data Science | CS 6630 (University of Utah)
Teaching Fellow Fall 2017, Fall 2018
https://www.dataviscourse.net

	Protograph: An Approachable and Extensible Toolkit for Graph Visualization and Animation Daniel Rodrigues, Joel Martinez, Priyan Vaithilingam, Johanna Beyer, Carolina Nobre Preprint, 2021 Project Webpage
	The Pattern is in the Details: An Evaluation of Interaction Techniques for Locating, Searching, and Contextualizing Details in Multivariate Matrix Visualizations Yalong Yang, Wenyu Xia, Fritz Lekschas, Carolina Nobre, Robert Krueger, Hanspeter Pfsiter Preprint, 2021
	reVISit: Looking Under the Hood of Interactive Visualization Studies Carolina Nobre, Dylan Wootton, Zack Cutler, Lane Harrison, Hanspeter Pfister, Alexander Lex 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13). 2021 Project Webpage
	Towards an Understanding of Situated AR Visualization for Basketball Free-Throw Training Tica Lin, Rishi Singh, Yalong Yang, Carolina Nobre, Johanna Beyer, Maurice A. Smith, and Hanspeter Pfster 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021
	Predicting Intent Behind Selections in Scatterplot Visualizations Kiran Gadhave, Jochen Görtler, Zach Cutler, Carolina Nobre, Oliver Deussen, Miriah Meyer, Jeff Phillips, Alexander Lex Information Visualization, 20(4): 207–228, doi:10.1177/14738716211038604, 2021. Project Webpage
	Parsing and Summarizing Infographics with Synthetically Trained Icon Detection Spandan Madan, S, Bylinskii Z, Carolina Nobre, Tancik M, Recasens A, Zhong K, Alsheikh S, Oliva A, Durand F, and Pfister H 2021 IEEE 14th Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2021
	Evaluating Interactive Multivariate Network Visualization Techniques using a Validated Design and Crowd-Sourcing Approach Carolina Nobre, Dylan Wootton, Lane Harrison, Alexander Lex 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-12. 2020 Project Webpage
	The State of the Art in Visualizing Multivariate Networks Carolina Nobre, Marc Streit, Miriah Meyer, Alexander Lex Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis ’19), 38: 807-832, doi:10.1111/cgf.13728, 2019 Project Webpage
	Origraph: Interactive Network Wrangling Alex Bigelow, Carolina Nobre, Miriah Meyer, Alexander Lex 2019 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), pp. 81-92. IEEE, 2019 Project Webpage
	Juniper: A Tree+Table Approach to Multivariate Graph Visualization Carolina Nobre, Marc Streit, Alexander Lex IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’18), 25(1): 544-554, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2018.2865149, 2019 Project Webpage
	Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs Carolina Nobre, Nils Gehlenborg, Hilary Coon, Alexander Lex IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(3): 1543-1558, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2018.2811488, 2019 Project Webpage
	OceanPaths: Visualizing Multivariate Oceanography Data Carolina Nobre, Alexander Lex Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis ’15) - Short Papers, doi:10.2312/eurovisshort.20151124, 2015 Project Webpage

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