The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) cordially invites you to join us for the next talk in our invited speakers series:

“To Index a City”
Vadim Smakhtin

Chief Technology Officer, Partner of Habidatum

Chief Design Officer, Partner of Habidatum

Friday, December 2, 2016
10:30-11:30am
Snell Library 90, Northeastern University

360 Huntington Ave
Boston MA, 02115

Coffee and pastries will be served.

Abstract: We live in an era of ubiquitous computing - the fabric of cities becomes more digitized, people’s gadgets generate tons of data. Yet our ability to understand many urban phenomena is still limited. How to compare incomparable? The city population and economic performance? Urban mobility and people’s values? Modern cities are complex multilevel systems and we need to analyze them, yet without simplification. In their talk Vadim Smakhtin and Eduard Haiman from Habidatum/Mathrioshka will explain what various types of urban data have in common, how to overcome data limitations and deal with scarce, sensitive and biased data through space-time analysis and visualization.

About the speakers: Vadim is a creative coder and generative designer focused on hybrid programming tools and interaction between coders, designers and analysts. With his IT knowledge and background in engineering, Vadim gets “tech” in order and sets the direction of software development at Habidatum. Vadim is a co-founder of the digital design studio Mathrioshka. He has 5+ years’ experience in digital art and data visualization. Apart from his work as CTO, Vadim holds lectures and workshops on digital art and parametric architecture.

Eduard is a creative technologist, artist and architectural designer. He oversees design and implementation of Habidatum’s visual analysis tools and provides strategic advice to the company. Eduard is a co-founder of the digital design studio Mathrioshka. He also co-founded Branch Point – an educational and research project in the field of parametric design and architecture. Eduard is an associate professor at Naberezhnye Chelny Institute of Social and Educational Technology and Resources and a regular lecturer at several architectural schools.

About NUVis: The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) is a new interdisciplinary cross-university initiative to support the university’s research efforts in visualization and to connect faculty, researchers, and students across campus to foster a visualization community.  Northeastern University’s interdisciplinary focus and structure is an ideal environment for such an interdisciplinary field of study, and the goal of NUVis, funded through a collaboration between the College of Arts, Media and Design and the College of Computer and Information Science, is to continue to foster and grow this important area of research.  NUVis sponsors talks and symposia including a bi-weekly seminar, connects faculty and students through its online portal, provides resources to support visualization related research at the university through avenues including workshops and library sponsored open office hours, and hosts and organizes community building events including hackathons and student research poster exhibitions.including workshops and library sponsored open office hours, and hosts and organizes community building events including hackathons and student research poster exhibitions.