Submitted by karsten.klein on Mon, 07/28/2014 - 17:26
Title: Building a useful software dependency visualization system
Abstract: I have been an information visualization and graph drawing researcher for the better part of 13 years so was therefore excited at the opportunity to build a "practical" graph-visualization tool with the weight and resources of a powerful software company behind me. However, I soon discovered that algorithms for layout and analysis are only one small piece in the puzzle to build a practical visualization tool that people will actually like and use. In this talk I hope to share that journey, some of the insights we acquired along the way, and---of course---spruik the tool itself: CodeMaps in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 IDE.
Bio: Since 2012 Tim Dwyer is a Senior Lecturer and Larkins Fellow with the Faculty of IT at Monash University. From 2009 to 2012 he was a Senior Software Development Engineer with the Visual Studio group at Microsoft, USA. From 2008 to 2009 he was a Visiting Researcher with the VIBE group at Microsoft Research, USA. He was a Research Fellow at Monash University from 2005 to 2008 and received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2005.
