Jessica Hullman is a

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and the Ginni Rometty associate professor of

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. She is known for her research in

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Education

Hullman graduated ''

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'' from

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with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Studies. She obtained a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Writings and Poetics from

Naropa University Naropa University is a private university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the 11th-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. The university describes itself as B ...

. 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

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Computer Science Department with

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. Hullman started her career as faculty at the

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, 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, automated design of data visualizations, narrative visualization, 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 * Visual Reasoning Strategies for Effect Size Judgments and Decisions * In Pursuit of Error: A Survey of Uncertainty Visualization Evaluation * Visualization rhetoric: Framing effects in narrative visualization * A deeper understanding of sequence in narrative visualization * Hypothetical Outcome Plots Outperform Error Bars and Violin Plots for Inferences about Reliability of Variable Ordering Hullman has given many invited lectures and keynote presentations, including "How to Visually Communicate Uncertain Data", "Beyond Visualization: Theories of Inference to Improve Data Analysis & Communication" and "The Visual Uncertainty Experience" at OpenVisConf. Hullman is co-director of the Midwest Uncertainty (MU) Collective at

. In addition to her scholarly work, Hullman has written articles for the popular press related to visualizing uncertainty, including for

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("Is Your Chart a Detective Story? Or a Police Report?", with

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, The Hill and

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("We Need Better Risk Communication to Combat the Coronavirus", with Allison Schrager). She is a contributor to

's blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science and is the founder and editor of Multiple Views, a blog on visualization research.

Awards

* Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship -

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, 2019 *Best Paper Award - ACM VIS 2020, ACM CHI 2017 * Best Paper Award Honorable Mention - IEEE VIS 2021, ACM CHI 2020, ACM CHI 2018, IEEE VIS 2017, ACM CHI 2017, IEEE VIS 2011 * NSF CAREER Award, 2018 * NSF CRII Award - NSF, 2016 * Google Faculty Award - Google Research, 2015 * Tableau Software Postdoctoral Fellow (Inaugural) -

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, Computer Science, 2014 * Gary M. Olson Outstanding PhD Student - University of Michigan, School of Information, 2013 * Rackham Centennial Award Merit Scholar - University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, 2012 * Naropa 'Secret Attic' Faculty's Choice Best Master's Thesis Award - Naropa University, 2006

References

External links

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