Ph.D.

I defended my Ph.D.! You can find my thesis here, if you are interested.

The context of my research was a statistical analysis method that one could summarize as “Principal Component Analysis for Temporal or Spatial Data”. The method has certain properties that can improve/ease the analysis and modeling of temporal/spatial datasets, but it does not come for free: Challenges when applying the method are the intricate and vast parameter space and the amount of components to compare. We tackled these in the individual publications by developing specialized interactive visualizations coupled with appropriate data mining algorithms (visual analytics).

I enjoy prototyping data-intensive user interfaces, simplifying them as much as necessary, researching state-of-the-art drawing and data mining techniques, and coming up with my own, if need be, to solve specific analysis challenges. Contact me if you have use for these skills!