The Contributions of Social Science to Data Visualization

March 30, 2017
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
March 30, 2017
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
W307 Pappajohn Business Building (PBB)

The Iowa Social Science Research Center will host a seminar, "The Contributions of Social Science to Data Visualization from 4-5 p.m., Thursday, March 30 in W307 Pappajohn Business Building (PBB). Bear Braumoeller, associate professor of political science from The Ohio State University, will provide a broad overview of data visualization. 

Braumoeller (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University. He is a leading expert on data visualization in the social sciences. He has regularly taught an undergraduate course entitled "Data Literacy and Data Visualization" at OSU that is now available to a wider audience online via iTunes U. His research is in the areas of international relations, especially international security, and statistical methodology and includes a new, book-length systemic theory of international relations, The Great Powers and the International System (Cambridge University Press; winner of the 2014 International Studies Association Best Book Award and the 2014 J. David Singer Book Award). For more details on Braumoeller's work, see http://www.braumoeller.info/.

This talk is organized by the Iowa Social Science Research Center and the Public Policy Center with support from the Departments of Sociology, Political Science, and Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, and the University of Iowa Informatics Initiative.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Dragana Petic at dragana-petic@uiowa.edu.