Fernanda Viégas

Fernanda Viégas, Chromogram , 2006. Visualization of all processing activities by user “Pearle” on Wikipedia

Fernanda Bertini Viégas (* 1971 in São Paulo , Brazil ) is a Brazilian-American computer scientist and data visualizer. She was named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company magazine in 2010 .

life and work

Viégas studied chemical engineering and linguistics in Rio de Janeiro until she received a scholarship in the USA in 1992. She studied graphic design and art history at the University of Kansas at Lawrence , and after completing her master's degree , she attended the MIT Media Lab in 1997 . Here she did her PhD in the Sociable Media Group with Judith Donath . That same year she started working in the Visual Communication Lab at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Cambridge , Massachusetts . She is one of the founders of IBM's experimental website Many Eyes, which was created in 2007 to bring visualization technology to the public. In 2010 she founded her own consulting company for data visualization with the designer Martin M. Wattenberg. Shortly thereafter, both became co-leaders of the Google data visualization group "Big Picture" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her visualization-based artworks have been exhibited worldwide and are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York . In 2012, she started the Wind Map Project, which provides continuously updated predictions of wind patterns in the United States. Her work with visualizations such as History Flow and Chromogram resulted in some of the earliest publications on Wikipedia's dynamics, including the first scientific study on vandal repair. In the machine learning space, with Wattenberg, she focused on improving human- AI interaction with a broader agenda to democratize AI technology.

Publications (selection)

Fernanda Viégas, Judith Donath: Chat Circles. ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), 1999
"Visualizing conversation", Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 4 (4), 1999
Judith Donath, Karrie Karahalios, Fernanda Viégas: Persistent Conversations. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 4 (4), 1999
Fernanda b. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Kushal Dave: Studying Cooperation and Conflict between Authors with history flow visualizations. ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), 2004

Web links

Commons : Fernanda Viégas - collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Viégas, Fernanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Viegas, Fernanda B .; Viégas, Fernanda Bertini (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian-American computer scientist and data visualizer
DATE OF BIRTH	1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	São Paulo