| Time: | May 21, 2026, 4:00 p.m. (CEST) |
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| Venue: | V27.02 Pfaffenwaldring 27 |
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We are happy to welcoming you on site for the public Honorary Argyris Lecture of Miriah Meyer. Once a year, we award an Argyris Visiting Professorship to a leading personality in the field of simulation technology. With this award, we honor internationally renowned scientists from Germany and abroad, who are outstanding representatives of their disciplines in the field of simulation technology.
Data As _______: Exploring the Plurality of Data in Visualization Research
What is data? Is it just numbers, characters, or symbols, or does its meaning also belong to it? Who or what creates data, and how does it originate? What counts as data and what doesn't? There are no right or wrong answers to these questions. But asking them creates a foundation for rethinking the role of visualizations—and of data—in research and science. In this talk, I will present four different perspectives on data, reflecting the range of approaches used by visualization researchers. Clearly distinguishing these perspectives opens up new possibilities for how we create and use data and visualizations, and how we can simultaneously challenge our conventional understandings of data-driven work.
Miriah Meyer
Miriah is a professor in the Department of Science & Technology at Linköping University, supported through the WASP program. Her research focuses on the design of visualization systems for helping people make sense of data, and on the development of methods for helping visualization designers make sense of the world. She obtained her bachelors degree in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at LiU she was an associate professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah and a member of the Vis Design Lab in the Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute.
Miriah has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work including being named a University of Utah Distinguished Alumni, both a TED Fellow and a PopTech Science Fellow, a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow, and included on MIT Technology Review's TR35 list of the top young innovators. She was also awarded an AAAS Mass Media Fellowship that landed her a stint as a science writer for the Chicago Tribune.
