Change what we can see. See what we can change.
Change what we can see. See what we can change.
Jason is Professor of Visualization and National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2005). He co-founded giCentre, one of the UK’s prominent visualization research groups, which he directed for a decade.
He likes to design and develop innovative interactive maps and graphics that represent complexity with clarity. His research focuses on the technology, algorithms, experiments and methodologies that help us understand the roles of, and possibilities for, these new visual artifacts that support knowledge construction and decision-making.
This work is necessarily multi and transdisciplinary, exploring and developing the opportunities that visualization offers for observing, analysing, and modeling processes in diverse domains, including home energy usage, transport networks, voting behaviour, historical migration, football tactics and epidemiological models.
The research, is described in more than 20 papers published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics in the last couple of decades that present design concepts, theoretical frameworks, algorithms, and human response experiments.
A former papers chair (InfoVis) and Steering Committee member of IEEE VIS, Jason has received funding from the EU, the EPSRC, the ESRC and the AHRC. He led efforts to report on the volunteering undertaken by the UK’s visualization research community during the COVID pandemic with a paper on Visualization for Epidemiological Modelling.
He is surprised, embarrassed and proud to feature in the Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization along with some of the most famous names in science.