The fires in LA now cover an area larger than 40,000 acres, roughly the size of D.C.

Still having a hard time visualizing it? Use my latest interactive map to compare it to a place you know much better: where you live

I'm hiring a postdoc! Come join my team at UNC-Chapel Hill and contribute to our visual analytics research. Interested? Read more about the opportunity at the link below, and please to contact me to introduce yourself!

vaclab.unc.edu/news/2025_po...

The Carolina Health Informatics Program @chip-unc.bsky.social has a new website! Check it out! chip.unc.edu

I am recruiting a postdoc! The research emphasis is participatory design for decision-making interfaces. Check out the two project descriptions on my website. people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalea/prosp...

The position is through UChicago’s Data Science Institute. datascience.uchicago.edu/research/pos...

I’m excited to share that UNC’s Carolina Health Informatics Progrom (CHIP) is now on BlueSky… @chip-unc.bsky.social Follow for updates about our program, our amazing students, our faculty’s research, and other health informatics news from UNC!

The Carolina Health Informatics Program was excited to host Rachini Moosavi, Chief Analytics Officer at UNC Health, as part of our speaker series. It was a great talk and highlighted a lot of interesting work to embed analytics across the health enterprise. A few smaller points also stuck with me:

I'm excited to see the recent uptick in bsky activity, especially within the #datavis community. It has started to feel like the "good old days" when social media was helpful for keeping up with the field. Have we reached a critical mass for the conversation to thrive? I hope so!

We're hiring a visualization / visual analytics postdoc in our lab @ UNC!

Getting close to earning a PhD? Interested in data vis and interactive data tools? Want to help address bias and equity in data-driven health research?

If so, apply today! Learn more here: vaclab.unc.edu/news/2024_po...