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About Us

Interactive Data Exploration System (IDEAS) Lab (formerly known as ”VisLab”) was founded 2016 at Shandong University, Qingdao, China by Prof. Yunhai Wang. Its mission is to enhance people's ability to understand and communicate data through the design of automated visualization and visual analytics systems.

We study the perceptual and mathematical foundations of visualization in order to improve the efficiency of interactive data analysis, while developing interactive systems for data visualization and analysis.

Recent Publications

Force-directed graph layouts revisited: a new force based on the t-Distribution

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear

Interactive Context-Preserving Color Highlighting for Multiclass Scatterplots

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Proc. ACM SIGCHI 2023), to appear

OM3 : An Ordered Multi-level Min-Max Representation for Interactive Progressive Visualization of Time Series

ACM SIGMOD 2023, to appear

Data-Driven Colormap Adjustment for Exploring Spatial Variations in Scalar Fields

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear

Target Netgrams: An Annulus-constrained Stress Model for Radial Graph Visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, to appear

Recent Events

seminar基于图形化编程的数据标注工具定制(Presented by Researcher Yu Zhang of Huawei Basic Software Innovation Lab

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University)

seminar大语言模型最新进展综述(Presented by PhD Xiachong Feng from Harbin Institute of Technology

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University)

seminar生成式大模型：技术认知与变革思考(Presented by researcher Zhixu Li from Fudan University

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University)

seminar层次数据可视化构建与设计空间探索(Presented by assistant Professor Guozheng Li from Beijing Institute of Technology)

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University)

seminar单调图计算的技术与系统(Presented by Professor Yanfeng Zhang from Northeastern University)

Online (IDEAS Lab, Shandong University)