Talk Slides and Older Essays

U of Miami, 2015

Design for Interactive Data Vis. A talk that summarized design principles with lots of examples, loosely inspired by the course I was teaching.

2014

Mining Dwarf Fortress for Stories. A talk about analyzing the game's XML data, creating a context-free grammar, and generating stories in English about the characters.

The Graphical Web 2014 and Bodleian Library, Oxford

Workshop on Topic Network Visualization. Code repo on GitHub.

OpenVisConf, Boston, June 2013

Bones of a Bestseller: Visualizing Fiction. Lots of simple machine learning and d3.js visual tools to interpret my results.

PyData Silicon Valley, Feb 2013

Using Nodebox to visualize data in Python. Nodebox is a python-alternative to Processing.

Strata and Hadoop World, NYC, Oct 2012

Beyond the Hairball. A talk on visualizing networks: a Slideshare deck. (Lots of favs and shares!)

Predictive Analytics Lightning Talks, Boston, Oct 2012

Interactive Visualization with D3.js. A short talk.

Predictive Analytics Meetup, Boston

Network analysis with Python's NetworkX and D3.js. Linked on my blog.

Boston MiniUPA

Mining Your Data: An Easy Intro to a Tough Topic. PDF slides. A talk for the Usability Professionals Association chapter conference.

UIUC HCI Program, June 2010

The Evolution of Fan Video Editors. Slides from an invited talk.

BostonCHI Panel, September 2007

User Experience Organizations. Panel notes, with panelists from Symantec, Fidelity, Oracle, EMC.

Boston UXNetwork kickoff meeting

Design for Online Community: Past the Hype. A ppt, with a simpler version without as many pics available on Slideshare.

April 2005, revised Dec 2006

Twenty Things I Believe About Product Design. Originally April 2005, revised a third time Dec 2006.

University of Washington, 2004

The Hiring Problem: Academic HCI vs. the Real World of Practice. Aka “What I Wish I'd Been Taught in School”: a PPT presentation about the practice of UI design (and the difficulty of hiring good people from school).