Jessica Hullman Explained

Jessica Hullman is a computer scientist and the Ginni Rometty professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University. She is known for her research in Information visualization and Uncertainty quantification.

Education

Hullman graduated magna cum laude from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Studies. She obtained a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Writings and Poetics from Naropa University. Hullman received her Master of Science in Information and Ph.D in Information Science from the University of Michigan - School of Information, where she was advised by Eytan Adar. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley Computer Science Department with Maneesh Agrawala.[1]

Hullman started her career as faculty at the University of Washington Information School, where she was also adjunct assistant professor in Computer Science, and affiliated with the Interactive Data Lab and DUB (Design Use Build) group.

Work

Jessica Hullman has published peer-reviewed journal articles on topics including uncertainty visualization, Bayesian cognition, human-AI interaction, decision-making under uncertainty, and evaluation of visualizations. Her work has contributed new visualization types to help readers develop an intuitive sense of uncertainty, such as hypothetical outcome plots. Notable works include

Hullman has given many invited lectures and keynote presentations, including "Strategic Communication of Uncertainty" to the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, "How to Visually Communicate Uncertain Data" to the Conference on Global Risk, Uncertainty, & Volatility, "Beyond Visualization: Theories of Inference to Improve Data Analysis & Communication" [7] and "The Visual Uncertainty Experience" at OpenVisConf. Hullman is co-director of the Midwest Uncertainty (MU) Collective at Northwestern University.

In addition to her scholarly work, Hullman has written articles for the popular press related to visualizing uncertainty, including for Wired ("Is Your Chart a Detective Story? Or a Police Report?", with Andrew Gelman),[8] Scientific American, The Hill and National Review ("We Need Better Risk Communication to Combat the Coronavirus", with Allison Schrager).[9] She is a contributor to Andrew Gelman's blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.

Awards

References

  1. Web site: Hullman, Jessica Faculty Northwestern Engineering. 2021-05-18. www.mccormick.northwestern.edu.
  2. Kale. Alex. Kay. Matthew. Hullman. Jessica. 2021-02-01. Visual Reasoning Strategies for Effect Size Judgments and Decisions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 27. 2. 272–282. 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3030335. 33048681. 1077-2626. 2007.14516. 221662355.
  3. Hullman. Jessica. Qiao. Xiaoli. Correll. Michael. Kale. Alex. Kay. Matthew. 2019-01-01. In Pursuit of Error: A Survey of Uncertainty Visualization Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 25. 1. 903–913. 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2864889. 30207956. 51920450. 1077-2626.
  4. Hullman. J.. Diakopoulos. N.. 2011-12-01. Visualization Rhetoric: Framing Effects in Narrative Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 17. 12. 2231–2240. 10.1109/TVCG.2011.255. 22034342. 10436985. 1077-2626.
  5. Hullman. Jessica. 2019-12-01. Why Authors Don't Visualize Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 26. 1. 130–139. 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934287. 31425093. 1908.01697 . 19410506. 1077-2626.
  6. Hullman. Jessica. Resnick. Paul. Adar. Eytan. 2015-11-16. Hypothetical Outcome Plots Outperform Error Bars and Violin Plots for Inferences about Reliability of Variable Ordering. PLOS ONE. en. 10. 11. e0142444. 10.1371/journal.pone.0142444. 1932-6203. 4646698. 26571487. 2015PLoSO..1042444H. free.
  7. Web site: Seminar: Jessica Hullman Human-Computer Interaction Institute. 2021-04-13. hcii.cmu.edu.
  8. Is Your Chart a Detective Story? Or a Police Report?. en-US. Wired. 2021-05-18. 1059-1028.
  9. Web site: 2020-08-19. We Need Better Risk Communication to Combat the Coronavirus. 2021-05-18. National Review. en-US.
  10. Web site: Birenbaum. Gabby. 2019-05-08. Journalism Prof. Jessica Hullman receives Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship. 2021-04-06. The Daily Northwestern.
  11. Web site: iSchool Directory Information School University of Washington. 2021-04-06. ischool.uw.edu. en.
  12. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award # 1749266 - CAREER: Enhancing Critical Reflection on Data by Integrating Users' Expectations in Visualization Interaction. 2021-05-18. www.nsf.gov. en.

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