Alexander Lex
  • Associate Professor, School Of Computing
801-585-0327

Publications

  • Devin Lange, Shaurya Sahai, Jeff M. Phillips, Alexander Lex Ferret: Reviewing Tabular Datasets for Manipulation Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis), 42(3): 187-198, doi:10.1111/cgf.14822, 2023. Published, 06/2023.
  • Devin Lange, Shaurya Sahai, Jeff M. Phillips, Alexander Lex Ferret: Reviewing Tabular Datasets for Manipulation Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis), 42(3): 187-198, doi:10.1111/cgf.14822, 2023. Published, 06/2023.
  • Maxim Lisnic, Cole Polychronis, Alexander Lex, Marina Kogan Misleading Beyond Visual Tricks: How People Actually Lie with Charts SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 1-21, doi:10.1145/3544548.3580910, 2023. Published, 05/2023.
  • Derya Akbaba, Devin Lange, Michael Correll, Alexander Lex, Miriah Meyer Troubling Collaboration: Matters of Care for Visualization Design Study SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 1-15, doi:10.1145/3544548.3581168, 2023. Published, 05/2023.
  • Haihan Lin, Derya Akbaba, Miriah Meyer, Alexander Lex Data Hunches: Incorporating Personal Knowledge into Visualizations IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(1): 504-514, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209451, 2022. Published, 01/2023.
  • Kiran Gadhave & Zach Cutler (2022). Reusing Interactive Analysis Workflows. Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis). Vol. 41, 133-144. Published, 08/2022.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14528
  • Rogers J & Patton AH (2022). Insights From Experiments With Rigor in an EvoBio Design Study. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. Vol. 27, 1106-1116. Published, 01/01/2022.
  • Lange D & Polanco E (2022). Loon: Using Exemplars to Visualize Large-Scale Microscopy Data. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. Vol. 28, 248-258. Published, 01/01/2022.
  • Devin Lange, Eddie Polanco, Robert Judson-Torres, Thomas Zangle & Alexander Lex (2022). Loon: Using Exemplars to Visualize Large-Scale Microscopy Data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VIS). Vol. 28, 248-258. Published, 01/2022.
  • Kiran Gadhave, Jochen Görtler, Zach Cutler, Carolina Nobre, Oliver Deussen, Miriah Meyer, Jeff Phillips & Alexander Lex (2021). Predicting Intent Behind Selections in Scatterplot Visualizations. SAGE. Vol. 20, 207-228. Published, 08/2021.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716211038604
  • Haihan Lin, Ryan A. Metcalf, Jack Wilburn & Alexander Lex (2021). Sanguine: Visual Analysis for Patient Blood Management. SAGE. Vol. 20, 123-137. Published, 08/2021.
    https://doi.org/10.1177%2F14738716211028565
  • Carolina Nobre, Dylan Wootton, Zach Cutler, Lane Harrison, Hanspeter Pfister, Alexander Lex reVISit: Looking Under the Hood of Interactive Visualization Studies SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 1-13, doi:10.1145/3411764.3445382, 2021. Published, 06/2021.
  • Waller TC, Berg JA, Lex A, Chapman BE & Rutter J (2020). Compartment and hub definitions tune metabolic networks for metabolomic interpretations. GigaScience. Vol. 9. Published, 02/01/2020.
  • Carolina Nobre, Dylan Wootton, Lane Harrison, Alexander Lex Evaluating Multivariate Network Visualization Techniques Using a Validated Design and Crowdsourcing Approach Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), to appear, 2020. Published, 02/2020.
  • Rogers J, Spina N, Neese A, Hess R, Brodke D & Lex A (2019). Composer-Visual Cohort Analysis of Patient Outcomes. Applied clinical informatics. Vol. 10, 278-285. Published, 11/01/2019.
  • Katarina Furmanova, Samuel Gratzl, Holger Stitz, Thomas Zichner, Miroslava Jaresova, Alexander Lex, Marc Streit Taggle: Scalable Visualization of Tabular Data through Aggregation Information Visualization, 2019. Published, 11/2019.
  • Alex Bigelow, Carolina Nobre, Miriah Meyer, Alexander Lex Origraph: Interactive Network Wrangling IEEE VAST, 2019. Published, 10/2019.
  • Carolina Nobre, Marc Streit, Miriah Meyer, Alexander Lex The State of the Art in Visualizing Multivariate Networks Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis '19), 2019. Published, 07/2019.
  • Nobre C, Gehlenborg N, Coon H & Lex A (2019). Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. Vol. 25, 1543-1558. Published, 03/01/2019.
  • Yan Zheng, Yi Ou, Alexander Lex, Jeff M. Phillips Visualization of Big Spatial Data using Coresets for Kernel Density Estimates IEEE Transactions on Big Data, early access, 2019. Published, 02/2019.
  • Kerzner E, Lex A, Sigulinsky CL, Umess T, Jones BW, Marc RE & Meyer M (2018). Graffinity: Visualizing Connectivity in Large Graphs. Computer graphics forum : journal of the European Association for Computer Graphics. Vol. 36, 251-260. Published, 11/01/2018.
  • Jen Rogers & Nicholas Spina, Ashley Neese, Rachel Hess, Darrel Brodke, Alexander Lex (2018). Composer: Visual Cohort Analysis of Patient Outcomes. Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare at AMIA (VAHC 2018). Published, 10/2018.
  • Yan Zheng, Yi Ou, Alexander Lex & Jeff Phillips (2017). Visualization of Big Spatial Data using Coresets for Kernel Density Estimates. IEEE Symposium on Visualization in Data Science. Published, 11/2017.
  • Sean McKenna, Alexander Lex & Miriah Meyer (2017). Worksheets for Guiding Novices through the Visualization Design Process. IEEE Workshop on Pedagogy of Data Visualization (PDV '17). Published, 10/2017.
  • Jake R. Conway, Alexander Lex & Nils Gehlenborg (2017). UpSetR: An R Package For The Visualization Of Intersecting Sets And Their Properties . Bioinformatics. Vol. 33(18), 2938-2940. Published, 09/2017.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx364
  • Michael Kern, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg & Chris R. Johnson (2017). Interactive Visual Exploration And Refinement Of Cluster Assignments. BMC Bioinformatics. Vol. 18(1), 406. Published, 08/2017.
    https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articl...
  • Thomas Geymayer, Manuela Waldner, Alexander Lex & Dieter Schmalstieg (2017). How Sensemaking Tools Influence Display Space Usage. Eurovis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA). Published, 06/2017.
    https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/eurova2017111...
  • Graffinity: Visualizing Connectivity in Large Graphs. Ethan Kerzner, Alexander Lex, Crystal Lynn Sigulinsky, Robert E. Marc, Bryan William Jones, Timothy Urness, Miriah Meyer, Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis '17), 2017. Published, 02/2017.
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cgf.131...
  • Hendrik Strobelt, Bilal Alsallakh, Joseph Botros, Brant Peterson, Mark Borowsky, Hanspeter Pfister, and Alexander Lex Vials: Visualizing Alternative Splicing of Genes IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’15), vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 399-408, 2016. Published, 08/12/2015.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467911
  • Carolina Nobre and Alexander Lex OceanPaths: Visualizing Multivariate Oceanography Data Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis ’15) - Short Papers. Published, 06/2015.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/eurovisshort.20151124
  • Lex A & Gehlenborg N (2015). Response to "Plotting intersections" by Lentini. (pp. 281). Vol. 12. Nature methods. Published, 04/01/2015.

Presentations

  • Provenance as a Bridge Between Data Analysis Modalities (Keynote) Workshop on Visualization and Provenance Across Domains, IEEE VIS, Melbourne, Australia, 2023-10-24. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2023.
  • Visualization in Data Science: Challenges and Opportunities Celebrating 30 Years of ICG, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, 2023-06-12. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2023.
  • Visualization in Oncological Data Science Now and in the Future: From Cancer Cell Microscopy to Reproducible Visual Analysis. Oncological Data Science Symposium, ODSi, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Utah, 2023-02-28. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/2023.
  • Empirical Evaluation of Complex Interactive Visualization Techniques. SCI VIS Seminar, University of Utah, USA, 2022-08-31. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/2022.
  • Literate Visualization: Making Visual Analysis Sessions Reproducible and Reusable. Visualization Summer School of Zhejiang University, China (virtual), 2022-07-07. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/2022.
  • Empirical Evaluation of Complex Interactive Visualization Techniques. Institute for Computer Graphics, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2022-06-03. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2022.
  • Spatial Omics Visualizations: Lessons Learned from Networks and Maps Worcester Polytechnic Institute, BCB Seminar Series, 2021-12-09. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/2021.
  • Literate Visualization: Making Visual Analysis Sessions Reproducible and Reusable Graz University of Technology, Austria, 2021-11-11. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/2021.
  • Spatial Omics Visualizations: Lessons Learned from Networks and Maps BioVis@VIS, IEEE VIS, New Orleans, USA (virtual), 2021-10-25. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2021.
  • Literate Visualization: Making Visual Analysis Sessions Reproducible and Reusable Visualization of Biological Data - From Analysis to Communication, Dagstuhl Seminar, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 2021-10-04. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2021.
  • Literate Visualization: Making Visual Analysis Sessions Reproducible and Reusable Séminaire LIRIS, CNRS / INSA Lyon / Université Lyon 1 & 2 / École Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France, 2021-10-18. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2021.
  • Opportunities for Understanding Semantics of User Interactions MLUI 2021: Machine Learning from User Interactions for Visualization and Analytics, IEEE VIS, New Orleans, USA (virtual), 2021-10-24. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/2021.
  • Driving Scientific Discovery with Interactive Visual Data Analysis Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2021-10-04. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2021.
  • Literate Visualization: Making Visual Analysis Sessions Reproducible and Reusable ICG Lab Talk, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, 2021-06-15. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2021.
  • Literate Visualization: Making Visual Analysis Sessions Reproducible and Reusable Departmental Seminar, Department of Computer Science, City University London, London, UK (virtual). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/2020.
  • Literate Visualization: Making Visual Analysis Sessions Reproducible and Reusable. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/2020.
  • Driving Scientific Discovery with Interactive Visual Data Analysis, Institute for Science and Technology (IST) Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/2020.
  • Literate Visualization: Making Visual Analysis Sessions Reproducible and Reusable, Utah Center for Data Science Seminar. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2020.
  • What is Data Visualization and Why Do We Care About it for Biomedical Applications? May Institute, Computation and statistics for mass spectrometry and proteomics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2019.
  • Enabling Scientific Discovery through Interactive Visual Data Analysis, Adobe. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2019.
  • Enabling Scientific Discovery through Interactive Visual Data Analysis, Lucid Software, Salt Lake City, UT . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/12/2019.
  • Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy GraphsKeynote, NIH-NCI Workshop on Accelerating Cancer Research through User-Centered Software Design, Washington, DC, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2019.
  • A Framework for Creative Visualization-Opportunities Workshops. NIH-NCI Workshop on Accelerating Cancer Research through User-Centered Software Design, Washington, DC, USA,. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2019.
  • Visualizing Biological Data: Pathway Graphs, Genealogies, and Alternative Splicing, Helmholtz Diabetes Center, Munich, Germany. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/29/2018.
  • Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs, Genome Rounds, University of Utah, SLC, UT, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/24/2018.
  • Visualizing Biological Data: Pathway Graphs, Genealogies, and Alternative Splicing, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, AZ. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/14/2018.
  • Layout Adaption Strategies for Visualizing Multivariate Networks, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/18/2018.
  • Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah, SLC, UT . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/05/2018.
  • Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs, BioIT World Conference & Expo, Boston, MA, USA . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/17/2018.
  • Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/16/2018.
  • Visualizing Biological Data: Pathway Graphs, Genealogies, and Alternative Splicing Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/2017.
  • Visualizing Biological Data: Pathway Graphs, Genealogies, and Alternative Splicing Merck Research Laboratories, Boston, MA, . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/15/2017.
  • Visualizing Biological Data: Pathway Graphs, Genealogies, and Alternative Splicing Department Of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/14/2017.
  • Enabling Scientific Discovery through Interactive Visual Data Analysis Goldman Sachs Tech Expo, Salt Lake City, UT. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/2017.
  • Enabling Scientific Discovery through Interactive Visual Data Analysis Department Of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2017.
  • Enabling Discovery through Interactive Visual Data Analysis, Walmart Headquaters, Bentonville, AK. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/2017.
  • Enabling Scientific Discovery through Interactive Visual Data Analysis, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2017.
  • Networks and Flow, Future in Review Conference, Park City, Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2016.
  • Enabling Scientific Discovery through Interactive Visual Data Analysis, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2016.
  • Pathfinder: Visual Analysis of Paths in Graphs, BioVis, Orlando, FL. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/2016.

Research Groups

  • Jake Wagoner, Technician. 11/2022 - present.
  • Maxim Lisnic, Graduate Student. 08/2021 - present.
  • Jen Rogers, Graduate Student. School of Computing / Computing. 08/01/2017 - 12/2022. http://vdl.sci.utah.edu/team/rogers/.
  • Mengjiao Han, Graduate Student. 01/02/2017 - 07/01/2017.
  • Sahar Mehrpour, Graduate Student. 01/2017 - 07/01/2017.
  • Pranav Dommata, Graduate Student. 01/2017 - 06/2018.
  • Annie Cherkaev, Graduate Student. 01/2017 - 07/01/2017.
  • Carolina Nobre, Graduate Student. 08/2016 - 03/2020.
  • Cameron Waller, Graduate Student. 08/2016 - 06/2018.
  • Asmaa Aljuhani, Graduate Student. 08/2016 - 07/01/2017.

Languages

  • French, functional.

Software Titles

  • Juniper. Multivariate Graph Visualization. Release Date: 06/2018.
  • Lineage. Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs . Release Date: 01/2018.