About cubes, networks, and visualizing data.

Me

I am currently a post-doctoral research fellow investigating and creating interactive visualizations for network data. I am currently employed by the Microsoft Research - Inria Joint Research Center, and based in Paris at the Aviz group. My post-doc reserach focuses on the visualization of functional brain connectivity, in collaboration with the Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC) at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. My Ph.D thesis is entitiled: Connections, Changes, and Cubes: Unfolding Dynamic Networks for Visual Exploration (May, 2014). My research interests include visualization of dynamic and multivariate networks, temporal and spatial information, facetted browsing interfaces, as well as metaphors for information visualization and interaction techniques.

News

02-Mar-2015 --- Following several requests, I complied a stub of a list of open dynamic networks that I found during my research and which I hope will serve other researchers to illustrate and test their visualiztions. I will keep adding networks.

04-Feb-2015 --- I joined Tara Madhyastha at the IBIC and Nathalie Henry-Riche at Microsoft Reserach in Seattle, WA for a few months as visiting researcher. Find our projects at visualizingbrainconnectivity.org.

10-Nov-2014 --- I am honoured to receive a IEEE VGTC Doctoral Dissertation Competition 2014, Honorable Mention for my PhD thesis. Thanks again to all I had the pleasure to work with during these years and from those I learned so much! This disseratation would not have been able without you.

29-Oct-2014 --- Share your best visualizations for the 25th anniversary of the IEEE VIS Conference at ieeevis.org/vis25timeline.

22-Oct-2014 --- Invited to talk about "Interactive Network Visualization" at Microsoft Workshop on eScience (Guarujá, Brasil) and announcing visualizingbrainconnectivity.org, our interdisciplinary collaboration on visualizing complex brain connectivity.

11-Jun-2014 --- Spacetimecubevis.com, our browsable collection of space-time cube projects, is online! Browse visualizations that visualize time, based on space-time cube operations. We will include more projects in the upcomming days, and are happy to include your suggestions.

09-May-2014 --- Successfully defended my PhD thesis, entitled
Connections, Changes, and Cubes: Unfolding Dynamic Networks for Visual Exploration

Committee:

30-Apr-2014 --- Cubix is online for download (java, beta 0.9.2) including example data sets. Find even more details on the visualization and the Matrix Cube to represent and explore dynamic networks here. Mail me in case of problems.

Publications

Conference and Journal Papers

Benjamin Bach, Pierre Dragicevic, Daniel Archambault, Christophe Hurter, Sheelagh Carpendale: A Review of Temporal Data Visualizations Based on Space-Time Cube Operations, Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), 2014, to appear.

Web Survey | Taxonomy Overview.
Benjamin Bach, Emmanuel Pietriega, Jean-Daniel Fekete: Visualizing Dynamic Networks with Matrix Cubes, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Toronto, Canada, 2014, Pages 877-886.

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Evelyne Lutton, Hugo Gilbert, Waldo Cancino, Benjamin Bach, Pierre Parrend, Pierre Collet: GridVis: Visualisation of Island-Based Parallel Genetic Algorithms, Proceedings of Parallel Architectures and Distributed Infrastructures (EvoStar), 2014, Granada, Spain, to appear.
EvoPAR Best paper
Benjamin Bach, Emmanuel Pietriega, Ilaria Liccardi: Visualizing Populated Ontologies with Ontotrix, International Journal on Semantic Web and Infomation Systems (IJSWIS), 2014, Special Issue on Information Visualization, pages 17-40.
Benjamin Bach, Emmanuel Pietriega, Jean-Daniel Fekete: GraphDiaries: Animated Transitions and Temporal Navigation for Dynamic Networks, Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2014, pages 740 - 754, 20 (5).

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Basak Alper, Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Henry Riche, Tobias Isenberg, Jean-Daniel Fekete: Weighted Graph Comparison Techniques for Brain Connectivity Analysis, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Paris, France, 2013, Pages 483-492.
CHI Best Paper
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Benjamin Bach, André Spritzer, Evelyne Lutton, Jean-Daniel Fekete: Interactive Random Graph Generation with Evolutionary Algorithms, Proceedings of Graph Drawing, Seattle, WA, 2012, Pages 177-180.

Posters and Demos

Benjamin Bach, Emmanuel Pietriga, Jean-Daniel Fekete: Visualizing Dynamic Networks with Matrix Cubes, InfoVis Poster, October 2013, Atlanta, GA, (Best Poster Award).
Abstract Poster
Benjamin Bach, Pierre Dragicevic, Samuel Huron, Petra Isenberg, Yvonne Jansen, Charles Perin, Andre Spritzer, Romain Vuillemot, Wesley Willett, and Tobias Isenberg: Illustrative Data Graphics in 18th–19th Century Style: A Case Study, InfoVis Poster, October 2013, Atlanta, GA.
Abstract Poster
Pierre Dragicevic, Benjamin Bach, Nicole Dufournaud, Samuel Huron, Petra Isenberg, Yvonne Jansen, Charles Perin, Andre Spritzer, Romain Vuillemot, Wesley Willett, and Tobias Isenberg: Visual Showcase: An Illustrative Data Graphic in an 18th–19th Century Style., In Visual Showcase at the Joint ACM/EG Symposium on Computational Aesthetics, Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (Expressive 2013, July 19–20, Anaheim, CA, USA). 2013. Extended abstract and exhibition piece..
Abstract
Benjamin Bach, Emmanuel Pietriga, Jean-Daniel Fekete: Temporal Navigation in Dynamic Networks, InfoVis Poster, VisWeek , October 2012, Seattle, WA

Benjamin Bach, Dietrich Kammer, Jan Polowinski Facettice: Integrating Faceted Navigation and Concept Lattices for Visual Data Exploration. InfoVis Poster, VisWeek , October 2012, Seattle, WA
Benjamin Bach, Emmanuel Pietriga, Ilaria Liccardi, G. Legostaev: OntoTrix: A Hybrid Visualization for Populated Ontologies, Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web , Pages 177-180 , March 2011, Hyderabad, India
Benjamin Bach, G. Legostaev, Emmanuel Pietriga: Visualizing Populated Ontologies with OntoTrix, Proceedings of the ISWC 2010 Posters & Demonstrations Track: Collected Abstracts, pages 85-88, November 2010, Shanghai, China

Master Thesis

Teaching

Professional

Reviewing

  • IEEE VIS (InfoVis+VAST): 2012, 2013, 2014
  • EuroVis: 2012, 2014, 2015
  • PacificVis:: 2014, 2015
  • ACM CHI: 2013, 2014, 2015
  • IEEE TVCG: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Graph Drawing: 2012
  • ACM Hypertext and Social Media: 2010 (Extended Abstracts)

(Research) Interests

  • - Network visualization

  • - Temporal data visualization

  • - Language visualization

  • - Semantic Web

  • - Faceted Browsing

  • - Concept Lattices & Formal Concept Analysis

  • - Open Gouvernment Data

  • - Typography