Jeffrey Heer
American computer scientist
Jeffrey Michael Heer (born June 15, 1979) is an American computer scientist best known for his work on information visualization and interactive data analysis. He is a professor of computer science & engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the UW Interactive Data Lab.2
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Born Jun 15, 1979.1
About
He co-founded Trifacta with Joe Hellerstein and Sean Kandel in 2012.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of California, Berkeley3
Heer received a B.S., M.S. and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, he developed the Prefuse and Flare visualization toolkits.
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Career
Occupation: computer scientist, university teacher, software developer.7
- Since 2013Professor, University of Washington4 5
- Date not recordedWorked at Stanford University4
- Date not recordedFounded Trifacta6
Known for: D3.js, Vega, Vega-Lite.8
Heer was an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University, from 2009 to 2013. He is also co-founder and chief experience officer of Trifacta. Heer's research focuses on new systems and techniques for data visualization. As a member of the Stanford University faculty, he worked with Mike Bostock on the Protovis and D3.js systems.
Heer then moved to the University of Washington where he worked with students and collaborators to develop the Vega and Vega-Lite visualisation grammars. Along with Joe Hellerstein and Sean Kandel, Heer has also developed interactive tools for data transformation (including Data Wrangler), leading to the founding of Trifacta. Other research contributions include work on the graphical perception of visualizations, social data analysis, text visualization, and interactive language translation tools.
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Personal life
- CitizenshipUnited States9
Awards
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- 1WikidataJeffrey Heer on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaJeffrey Heer on Wikipedia
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- 10WikidataJeffrey Heer: award, on Wikidata
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- 13WikidataJeffrey Heer: X, on Wikidata
- 14WikidataTrifacta, Founder
- 15Wikimedia CommonsJeffrey Heer photo by Dominik Moritz, CC BY-SA 3.0