Adam Perer

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Contents 1 Biography 2 Recent Posts 3 Recent Updates 4 Social Network Visualization Research Papers 5 Social Media Analytics Research Papers

Biography

Adam Perer is a research scientist in the Healthcare Analytics team at IBM Research in New York. He was previously a research scientist in IBM's Visual Communication Lab in Cambridge and IBM's Social Technologies Group in Haifa.

His research focuses on making sense of big data through visualization and interactive analytics.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. His advisor was Dr. Ben Shneiderman and he was a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. His dissertation work focused on improving exploratory data analysis by integrating statistical algorithms and information visualizations. His SocialAction project has been instrumental for scientific discoveries, including medical research at the National Library of Medicine, counter-terrorism research at the Department of Homeland Security’s START center, and political analysis at US News & World Report. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Xerox PARC, and Microsoft Research.

His curriculum vitae is available here to download. (Updated 12/2011).

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Recent Posts

• 2 May 2012: Discovering the Visualizations of Craig Robinson

• 25 April 2012: Creating Generative Art with Marius Watz

• 11 April 2012: “What Makes a Good Data Visualization”

Recent Updates

• 15 November 2011: Moved to NYC to join IBM Research’s Healthcare Analytics Team

• 25 October 2011: Paper on ‘Visual Social Network Analytics’ won Honorable Mention at VisWeek

• 26 July 2011: Organizing workshop on ‘Telling Stories with Data’ at VisWeek in October

• 13 July 2011: Presenting Visual Social Network Analytics research in Barcelona

• 24 June 2011: Gave a talk at Stanford about Making Sense of Social Networks

• 5 May 2011: Crowdsourcing & Social Network Research Presented at CHI 2011 in Vancouver

• 3 April 2011: Gave a talk at MIT about Making Sense of Social Networks

• 21 March 2011: Social Media Research presented at CSCW 2011 in China

• 8 February 2011: Research featured in the New York Times and UX Magazine

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Social Network Visualization Research Papers

• Adam Perer. Finding Beautiful Insights in the Chaos of Social Network Visualizations. In Beautiful Visualization. O’Reilly Press. (2010). [1]

• Adam Perer and Ben Shneiderman: Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis 2006). 12(5): 693-700. Baltimore, United States. (2006). [2]

• Adam Perer and Ben Shneiderman. Integrating Statistics and Visualization: Case Studies of Gaining Clarity During Exploratory Data Analysis. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Florence, Italy. (2008). [3]

• Adam Perer and Ben Shneiderman. Systematic Yet Flexible Discovery: Guiding Domain Experts Through Exploratory Data Analysis. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008). Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. (2008). [4]

• Frank van Ham and Adam Perer: “Search, Show Context, Expand on Demand”: Supporting Large Graph Exploration with Degree-of-Interest. IEEE Conference on Information Visualization (Infovis 2009). Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. (2009). [5]

• Adam Perer and Ben Shneiderman. Integrating Statistics and Visualization for Exploratory Power: From Long-Term Case Studies to Design Guidelines. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A): Special Issue on Visual Analytics Evaluation. 29(3): 39-51 (2009). [6]

• Adam Perer, Frank van Ham: Integrating Querying and Browsing in Partial Graph Visualizations. IBM Technical Report. (2011). [7]

• Adam Perer, Ido Guy, Erel Uziel, Inbal Ronen, Michal Jacovi: Visual Social Network Analytics for Relationship Discovery in the Enterprise. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST 2011). Providence, Rhode Island, USA. (2011). [8]

• Jeffrey Heer, Adam Perer: Orion: A System for Modeling, Transformation and Visualization of Multi-dimensional Heterogeneous Networks. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST 2011). Providence, Rhode Island, USA. (2011). [9]

Social Media Analytics Research Papers

• Michael Muller, Kate Ehrlich, Tara Matthews, Adam Perer, Inbal Ronen, and Ido Guy. Diversity among Enterprise Online Communities: Collaborating, Teaming, and Innovating through Social Media. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012). Austin, Texas. (2012). [10]
• Michal Jacovi, Ido Guy, Adam Perer, Inbal Ronen, Erel Uziel and Michael Maslenko. Digital Traces of Interest: Deriving Interest Relationships from Social Media Interactions. European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2011). Aarhus, Denmark. (2011). [11]
• Ido Guy, Adam Perer, Tal Daniel, Ohad Greenshpan, Itai Turbahn: Guess Who? Enriching the Social Graph through a Crowdsourcing Game. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011). Vancouver, Canada. (2011). [12]
• Ido Guy, Sigalit Ur, Inbal Ronen, Adam Perer, Michal Jacovi: Do You Want to Know? Recommending Strangers in the Enterprise. ACM Conference of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011). Hangzhou, China. (2011). [13]
• Ido Guy, Michal Jacovi, Adam Perer, Inbal Ronen and Erel Uziel: Same Places, Same Things, Same People? Mining User Similarity on Social Media. ACM Conference of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010). Savannah, Georgia, USA. (2010). [14]
• Marc A. Smith, Ben Shneiderman, Natasha Milic-Frayling, Eduarda Rodrigues, Vladimir Barash, Cody Dunne, Tony Capone, Adam Perer and Eric Gleave: Analyzing (Social Media) Networks with NodeXL. International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2009). University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. (2009). [15]

All of my other publications may be accessed on my Publications page.