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Prof Jason Dykes
Professor
Room: A304C
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

J.Dykes@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 8906
fax: +44 20 7040 8584

Current and Recent Activity ...

this week ... [diary for the next two weeks]

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14/05	Monday	[U] phd exam - university of calgary, canada
15/05	Tuesday	[U] seminar - university of calgary, canada
16/05	Wednesday	[U] travel				[M] staff development				[H]
17/05	Thursday	[O]	[M] kj	[M] sd		[O]	[M] bw	[O]		[C]
18/05	Friday	[M] daisy						[O]		[M] dcs
	map of the week

I am a Professor of Visualization at the giCentre with research expertise in interactive cartography and its use in geographic data visualization and information visualization. I have developed a number of innovative and interactive visualization techniques and applications and published research papers on geovisualization and information visualization that are cited by the academic community.

Notable software and techniques include cdv, panoraMap, 'geowigs', spatially ordered treemaps, OD maps, vizLegends, BallotMaps and the HiVE expression language and associated HiDE software. Much of my work is available through the OpenAccess repository.

giCentre Papers are OpenAccess ... and more news ...

I've been involved with the Repository Project at City as a member of the steering group.

One key outcome is the 'OpenAccess' repository of publications. I'm delighted that the institution has invested in this searchable body of academic papers.

Much of the giCentre work is now available through this facility.

As co-chair of the ICA Commission on Geovisualization and an active contributor to the ICA Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments I have edited the multi-disciplinary book "Exploring Geovisualization" (Dykes, MacEachren and Kraak, 2005) and recent special issues of IJGIS, JLBS and CEUS.

I am an Editorial Board member of Computers Environment and Urban Systems and The Cartographic Journal and a member of the Organizing Committee of IEEE Information Visualization for which I will be Papers Co-Chair in 2012.

I am Course Director of the MSc in Information Management and personal tutor to undergraduate Computer Scientists. I teach on a number of modules in the School's postgraduate portfoilo - usually with a geographic and visualization bias! I am a member of the Advisory Boad for the Learning Devleopment Centre at City and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in 2005.

My colleagues and I at the giCentre have been awarded the 'Best Paper' prize at the GIS Research UK meetings in 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 for innovative visualization work. We were awarded an 'Honorable Mention' at InfoVis 2009 and won awards at the 2009 and 2010 VAST challenges in addition to prizes for our research from City University, Google and UKMap. Our work has featured in the Telegraph and on the cover of Panlibus magazine.