Visualization

We envision to help people understand data by designing and implementing novel visualizations that support users in effectively analyzing complex data and transparently reporting insights.

Democratized Data

Geographic information understandable for everyone: New DFG-funded research project in the priority programme „Volunteered Geographic Information“

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Network Comparison

New interdisciplinary MERCUR research project on comparative data analysis within the Ruhr University Alliance

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Junior Professor for Computer Science

Research Areas

Information Visualization

Readable visual representations of abstract data.

Network and hierarchy visualization
Representation of temporal data
Visual comparison
Word-sized graphics

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Software Visualization

Applying visualization techniques to support software development.

Software performance
Software evolution
Visual debugging
Code quality

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Visual Analytics

Embedding visualization into interactive interfaces and integrating it with algorithmic solutions.

Self-explanatory visual analysis
Interactive documents
Integration of visualization and text
Explainable machine learning

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Learn more in our publications and try out our interactive visualization software.

Junior professor at University of Duisburg-Essen since 2016, previously postdoc at VISUS, University of Stuttgart and PhD candidate in Software Engineering at University of Trier. Junior Fellow of Eurographics since 2018.

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Team

We like to tell you more about our research, offer consulting on visualization, and answer questions about teaching. Please get in touch with us!

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We are Member of paluno

paluno – the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology is one of the largest research institutes for software engineering in Germany. Ten professors and over 100 scientists conduct excellent applied and basic research here. They investigate and test principles, methods and tools for the development of software-based technologies.

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Contact

Prof. Dr. Fabian Beck

Universität Duisburg-Essen
Gerlingstraße 16
45127 Essen, Germany

Room: S-GW 209 (via S-GW 210)
fabian.beck (at) paluno.uni-due.de
Tel.: +49 201 183-7057

Office

Heike Göris and Laura Neubauer
Room: S-GW 207
sekretariat (at) paluno.uni-due.de
Tel.: +49 201 183-4660

News

Thu, 04. Jul. 2019 Beck, Fabian

Transparency through Visualization: Making AI Understandable

Fabian Beck will present on this topic at the paluno event for the "3. Essener Wissenschaftssommer" on July 4, 2019. The talk will highlight practical applications of machine learning methods and explain the role visualization...

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Mon, 01. Jul. 2019 Beck, Fabian

Democratized Data: Geographical Information Understandable for Everyone

New DFG-funded research project in the priority programme „Volunteered Geographic Information“

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Wed, 08. May. 2019 Latif, Shahid

PacificVis 2019: Meeting the Visualization Community in Bangkok

Last month, the international visualization community met in Bangkok, Thailand to discuss latest research results. IEEE PacificVis is one of the three important international conferences on visualization research. Around 120...

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Sat, 20. Oct. 2018 Agarwal, Shivam

Machine Learning Helps Managing Documents

Keywords are often used to structure a collection of documents. Keywords help humans to search and retrieve records from the collection. Maintaining such a collection involves assigning keywords to new records and updating...

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Wed, 01. Aug. 2018 Latif, Shahid

Profile Pages for Scientists

Natural language generation meets visualization – a novel approach of presenting publication records

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Tue, 17. Jul. 2018 Beck, Fabian

Successful GI Dagstuhl Seminar on Visualization of Software Performance

Last week, we met with a selected group of young researchers at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics to bring together the international research communities from visualization, performance engineering, and...

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Fri, 08. Jun. 2018 Beck, Fabian

Fabian Beck Receives the EuroVis Young Researcher Award

Making data understandable - this is the research goal of Prof. Dr. Fabian Beck. For his outstanding contributions to visualization research, the assistant professor of the Software Engineering Institute paluno at the University...

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Fri, 01. Jun. 2018 Beck, Fabian

Interactive Software Performance Reports

New collaborative project started with software performance experts at the University of Stuttgart. The project is funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation as part of the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Leading Early Career...

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Mon, 14. May. 2018 Latif, Shahid