Visual Perspectives: Consulting and Research in Human Vision, Visual Analysis and Visualization

Visual Perspectives is a consulting practice founded by Dr. Bernice E. Rogowitz, an internationally-recognized as a leader in the application of perception research to real-world problems in data understanding.

Visual Perspectives offers a wide range of services to help you and your customers glean insight from data.

• Data: Numerical, image, video, 3-D graphics, network, or text data

• Algorithms: Data mining, image processing, computer vision, statistical, data-mapping algorithms.  

• Representations: Visualization and imaging representations

• Interaction methodologies, interactive visualization and user interface methodologies, including haptic (touch) interfaces

• Human perception and cognition to guide the best choices in data representation, interaction, and analysis, to increase insight and improve communication

Visual Perspectives works with leaders in business and science to enhance data understanding

• Business:  financial risk, insurance fraud, retail segmentation and data mining

• Science: exploring patterns across multiple types of data, communicating scientific results

We can also help you bridge the gap between the end-user analyst and the IT team creating the application, by helping the analyst articulate their goals in a way that can be operationalized by a computer scientist.

Professional disciplines where we have applied and developed our knowledge:

• • Bioinformatics-- Exploring gene expression array data

  • Medical research-- Modeling of a finite element cardiac model

  • Cancer research -- Visualizing early evidence of tumor growth

  • High energy physics-- Visualizing the Higgs-Boson

  • Retail -- Combining data mining and visual analytics for customer segmentation

  • Insurance -- Using key indicators and a summary metric to improve fraud detection

  • Finance - Risk analysis, visualizing options

Some Areas of Expertise available to you:

• • Analytics for "Big Data"  applications

  • Colormaps and Use of Color for data exploration and communication

  • Representation of  Risk and Uncertainty in data

  • Visualizing models

  • Selection of the right visualization(s) for your needs

  • Perceptual and Algorithmic approaches to finding features in data

  • High-dimensional data anlaysis

Services offered:

• • Data analysis

  • Visual analytics application design

  • Design review of your end-user applications

  • Research in human vision, perception, cognition, user interfaces

  • Design of user studies and evaluations

  • Best practices in communicating important features in your data

  • Short courses:  human vision and cognition for visualization and imaging, visual analytics and data mining, the use and abuse of color