Christopher Healey’s work harnesses visual perception to create visualization techniques supporting the rapid and effective exploration and analysis of large, complex datasets. Color is a familiar concept that we all recognize and use in our day-to-day lives. Understanding how color works is a much more fascinating problem, however, involving the physics of light, visual perception, language and culture and context. Healey, an NC State faculty member, will discuss those issues and demonstrate how they affect presenting data with color. Healey will also discuss some ongoing projects, including an extensive COVID-19 dashboard. 

Healey's talk is part of the Coffee and Viz series. The series allows NC State researchers to share their visualization work and discuss topics of interest.