Alberto Cairo – IDSC Magazine

Spring 2024, Visualization

January 28, 2024

Amir Rodrigo Dukmak Garcia has spent most of his career managing and analyzing the copious streams of data produced by healthcare and IT companies from South Florida to Canada. He loves the process of sorting and cleaning up data to find the nuggets of truth hiding inside.

Spring 2024, Visualization

January 28, 2024

With a fascinating career that has “tracked alongside the major technological developments in and out of the newsroom that brought us to the current point in data visualization,” Prof. Alberto Cairo was described in a Microsoft / Story Labs profile as “always in the vanguard of visual journalism.”

Fall 2023, IDSC Fellows

August 26, 2023

Attention: UM Graduate and Undergraduate Students! Are you interested in applying to be an IDSC Fellow? Are you unsure if your idea or project would benefit from the program? Bring your questions to IDSC Day next Thursday, September 28 [register here (free)]. We’ll be at the Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science building from 1:00-6:00 PM and […]

Fall 2022, From the Director

August 30, 2022

from the director I am pleased to share with you a look back at a year’s worth of exciting progress at IDSC, as told by writer Alan Gomez, who offers a glimpse at where it might take us . . . A computer science prodigy who started college at age 12 and received his PhD […]

Data Science, Fall 2022

August 30, 2022

Alberto Cairo, a University of Miami expert on data visualization, has been encouraged by the data visualization techniques used by news organizations, researchers, and government agencies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost overnight, they started cranking out graphics, tables, charts, and interactive databases that showed Americans the number of infections, the location of hot spots, positivity […]

Spring 2021, Visualization

February 1, 2021

The “AK Peters Visualization [Book] Series” aims to capture new developments, and to summarize what is known over the whole spectrum of visualization by publishing in a broad range of formats. The series will contain books from all subfields of visualization, including visual analytics, information visualization, and scientific visualization, and will largely follow the calls […]

Fall 2020, Visualization

September 18, 2020

Data specialists at IDSC are collaborating with national consulting firm MDB, Inc., in designing and developing an interactive evidence map displaying the impact of social needs interventions on health outcomes. “Our multidisciplinary UM team will effectively translate scientific findings and data into a visual evidence map to help physicians, researchers, and health insurance systems see […]

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