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2026 article

Abstractive Summarization of Large Document Collections Using GPT

Liu, S., & Healey, C. G. (2026, January 1). IEEE Transactions on Big Data.

By: S. Liu n & C. Healey n

topics (OpenAlex): Data Quality and Management; Algorithms and Data Compression; Machine Learning and Algorithms
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 4, 2026

2025 article

Insights from social media into public perspectives on investigative genetic genealogy

Huston, S., Madden, D., Villanes, A., Reed, N., Brooks, W. B., Healey, C., & Guerrini, C. (2025, January 6). Frontiers in Genetics.

By: S. Huston *, D. Madden *, A. Villanes n, N. Reed *, W. Brooks *, C. Healey n, C. Guerrini *

author keywords: public understanding of science; social media; kinship analysis; DNA testing; forensic DNA; investigative genetic genealogy
topics (OpenAlex): Computational and Text Analysis Methods; Misinformation and Its Impacts; Climate Change Communication and Perception
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16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: January 27, 2025

2024 article

Assessing predictability of environmental time series with statistical and machine learning models

Bonas, M., Datta, A., Wikle, C. K., Boone, E. L., Alamri, F. S., Hari, B. V., … Castruccio, S. (2024, July 5). Environmetrics.

By: M. Bonas *, A. Datta *, C. Wikle *, E. Boone *, F. Alamri *, B. Hari*, I. Kavila *, S. Simmons n ...

co-author countries: Australia 🇦🇺 Canada 🇨🇦 India 🇮🇳 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
author keywords: environmental modeling; forecasting; time series; uncertainty
topics (OpenAlex): Time Series Analysis and Forecasting; Forecasting Techniques and Applications; Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
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2. Zero Hunger (Web of Science)
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: July 17, 2024

2024 article

Catalysing virtual collaboration: The experience of the remote TIES working groups

Meis, M., Pirani, M., Euan, C., Castruccio, S., Simmons, S., Stroud, J. R., … Gel, Y. (2024, May 23). Environmetrics.

By: M. Meis *, M. Pirani *, C. Euan *, S. Castruccio *, S. Simmons n, J. Stroud*, M. Blangiardo *, C. Wikle * ...

co-author countries: Argentina 🇦🇷 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
author keywords: remote; scientific environmental research; working groups
topics (OpenAlex): Species Distribution and Climate Change; Scientific Computing and Data Management; Data Visualization and Analytics
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5. Gender Equality (Web of Science)
10. Reduced Inequalities (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: June 3, 2024

2022 article

An illustration of model agnostic explainability methods applied to environmental data

Wikle, C. K., Datta, A., Hari, B. V., Boone, E. L., Sahoo, I., Kavila, I., … Chang, W. (2022, October 25). Environmetrics.

By: C. Wikle *, A. Datta *, B. Hari*, E. Boone *, I. Sahoo *, I. Kavila *, S. Castruccio *, S. Simmons n, W. Burr *, W. Chang *

co-author countries: Canada 🇨🇦 India 🇮🇳
author keywords: explainable AI; feature shuffling; LIME; machine learning; Shapley values
topics (OpenAlex): Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI); Hydrological Forecasting Using AI; Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
TL;DR: Three general methods for explainability that are model agnostic and thus applicable across a breadth of models without internal explainability are focused on: “feature shuffling”, “interpretable local surrogates’, and “occlusion analysis”. (via Semantic Scholar)
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5. Gender Equality (Web of Science)
10. Reduced Inequalities (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: November 7, 2022

2022 article

Domain-specific text dictionaries for text analytics

Villanes, A., & Healey, C. G. (2022, July 11). International Journal of Data Science and Analytics.

By: A. Villanes n & C. Healey n

author keywords: Dengue fever; Text analytics; Sentiment
topics (OpenAlex): Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining; Advanced Text Analysis Techniques; Misinformation and Its Impacts
TL;DR: A semiautomatic method for extending a general sentiment dictionary for a specific target domain in a way that minimizes manual effort and is integrated into an epidemiology surveillance system that includes sentiment visualization. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: July 26, 2022

2022 article

Visual Analytics for the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic

Healey, C. G., Simmons, S. J., Manivannan, C., & Ro, Y. (2022, January 20). Big Data.

By: C. Healey n, S. Simmons n, C. Manivannan n & Y. Ro n

author keywords: coronavirus; COVID-19; data analytics; visualization
MeSH headings : COVID-19 / epidemiology; China / epidemiology; Forecasting; Humans; Pandemics / prevention & control; SARS-CoV-2
topics (OpenAlex): Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications; Data-Driven Disease Surveillance; Data Visualization and Analytics; Data Analysis with R; COVID-19 epidemiological studies
TL;DR: The high-level goal is to provide visualizations of predictive analytics that offer policymakers and the general public insight into the current pandemic state and how it may progress into the future. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: February 7, 2022

2021 article

Ballerinas as analysts: Former ballet dancers’ transfer of 21st century skills to careers as data analysts

Warren, S. E. (2021, April 20). Industry and Higher Education.

By: S. Warren n

author keywords: 21st century skills; ballet; data analysts; learning transfer; professional science Master's; qualitative research
topics (OpenAlex): Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation; Sport Psychology and Performance; Competency Development and Evaluation
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4. Quality Education (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: May 17, 2021

2021 article

Crossing cultural borders: results of an intervention on community college biology students’ understanding and acceptance of evolution

Green, K., & Delgado, C. (2021, February 14). International Journal of Science Education.

By: K. Green n & C. Delgado n 

author keywords: Biology education; evolution; science-religion relation; interface
topics (OpenAlex): Evolution and Science Education; Animal and Plant Science Education; Science Education and Pedagogy
TL;DR: This research study used the theoretical framework of cultural border crossing and its underlying cognitive explanation, collateral learning, to design an intervention for community college students in an introductory biology class for non-science majors. (via Semantic Scholar)
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4. Quality Education (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 8, 2021

2018 article

Impressionism-inspired data visualizations are both functional and liked.

Kozik, P., Tateosian, L. G., Healey, C. G., & Enns, J. T. (2018, May 14). Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, Vol. 13, pp. 266–276.

By: P. Kozik, L. Tateosian* , C. Healey* & J. Enns

author keywords: aesthetics; impressionism; information visualization
topics (OpenAlex): Data Visualization and Analytics
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 19, 2019

2018 article

A system for generating storyline visualizations using hierarchical task network planning

Padia, K., Bandara, K. H., & Healey, C. G. (2018, November 17). Computers & Graphics.

By: K. Padia n , K. Bandara n & C. Healey n

author keywords: HTN planning; Narratives; Storyline visualization
topics (OpenAlex): Data Visualization and Analytics; Multimedia Communication and Technology; Video Analysis and Summarization
TL;DR: Yarn is extended, a system for automatic construction and visualization of narratives with multiple timelines, and constructs both linear as well as non-linear narratives, and enables pairwise comparison within a group of multiple narrative timelines. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: March 4, 2019

2018 journal article

A general framework for gathering data to quantify annual visitation

Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 36(1), 1–21.

By: A. Snider, J. Hill, S. Simmons & J. Herstine

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2018 article

Visualizing Deep Neural Networks for Text Analytics

Nie, S., Healey, C., Padia, K., Leeman-Munk, S., Benson, J., Caira, D., … Devarajan, R. (2018, April 1).

By: S. Nie  n, C. Healey n, K. Padia n , S. Leeman-Munk*, J. Benson*, D. Caira*, S. Sethi*, R. Devarajan*

author keywords: Visualization; machine learning
topics (OpenAlex): Data Visualization and Analytics; Video Analysis and Summarization; Computational Physics and Python Applications
TL;DR: TNNVis is presented, a visualization system that supports un-derstanding of deep neural networks specifically designed to analyze text, and multiple use cases where visualization facilitates an understanding of the models. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2017 chapter

Computer-Aided Human Centric Cyber Situation Awareness

In Theory and Models for Cyber Situation Awareness (pp. 3–25).

By: M. Albanese *, N. Cooke *, G. Coty*, D. Hall *, C. Healey n, S. Jajodia *, P. Liu *, M. McNeese* ...

topics (OpenAlex): Human-Automation Interaction and Safety; Risk and Safety Analysis; Information and Cyber Security
TL;DR: This chapter provides an overview of Cyber Situational Awareness, an emerging research area in the broad field of cyber security, and discusses, at least at a high level, how to gain Cyber Situation Awareness. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Crossref
Added: February 24, 2020

2017 chapter

Lessons Learned: Visualizing Cyber Situation Awareness in a Network Security Domain

In Theory and Models for Cyber Situation Awareness (pp. 47–65).

By: C. Healey n, L. Hao n & S. Hutchinson*

topics (OpenAlex): Data Visualization and Analytics; Complex Network Analysis Techniques; Multimedia Communication and Technology
TL;DR: This chapter discusses lesson learned working with cyber situation awareness and network security domain experts to integrate visualizations into their current workflows, finding a critical set of requirements that a visualization must meet to be considered for use by these domain experts. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: February 24, 2020

2017 article

Dengue Fever Surveillance in India Using Text Mining in Public Media

Villanes, A., Griffiths, E., Rappa, M., & Healey, C. G. (2017, October 24). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

By: A. Villanes n, E. Griffiths*, M. Rappa n & C. Healey n

co-author countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
MeSH headings : Data Mining; Dengue / epidemiology; Humans; India / epidemiology; Mass Media / statistics & numerical data; Newspapers as Topic / statistics & numerical data; Population Surveillance / methods
topics (OpenAlex): Mosquito-borne diseases and control; Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences; Complex Network Analysis Techniques
TL;DR: This article analyzes dengue news articles in Asian countries, with a focus in India, for each month in 2014 and concludes that the proposed method facilitates the effective discovery of evolutionary d Dengue themes and patterns. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 chapter

Large Image Collection Visualization Using Perception-Based Similarity with Color Features

In Advances in Visual Computing (pp. 379–390).

By: Z. Chen  n & C. Healey n

topics (OpenAlex): Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques; Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques; Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
TL;DR: This paper proposes new scene descriptors that preserve the information from coherent color regions, as well as the spatial layouts of scenes, that outperform existing state-of-the-art approaches. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: February 24, 2020

2015 article

Ensemble visualization for cyber situation awareness of network security data

Hao, L., Healey, C. G., & Hutchinson, S. E. (2015, October 25).

By: L. Hao n, C. Healey n & S. Hutchinson*

topics (OpenAlex): Data Visualization and Analytics; Complex Network Analysis Techniques; Mental Health Research Topics
TL;DR: This work proposes methods to interpret network security alerts and flow traffic as ensemble members, which can then apply ensemble visualization techniques in a network analysis environment to produce a network ensemble visualization system. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 chapter

Understanding Which Graph Depictions Are Best for Viewers

In Smart Graphics (pp. 174–177).

By: J. Christensen n, J. Bae  n, B. Watson n & M. Rappa n

topics (OpenAlex): Data Visualization and Analytics; Data Management and Algorithms; Usability and User Interface Design
TL;DR: This work uses data from a study of three different graph depictions: node-link, centered matrix, and quilts to explore how pathfinding time is influenced by the graph structure, measured by the number of nodes, links, skips and layers. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: February 24, 2020

2014 article

Visualizing likelihood density functions via optimal region projection

Canary, H., Taylor, R. M., Quammen, C., Pratt, S., Gómez, F. A., Brian, O. S., & Healey, C. G. (2014, March 14). Computers & Graphics.

By: H. Canary*, R. Taylor*, C. Quammen*, S. Pratt *, F. Gómez *, O. Brian *, C. Healey n

author keywords: Uncertainty; Parameter space analysis; Visualization; Likelihood density function
topics (OpenAlex): Data Visualization and Analytics; Data Analysis with R; Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
TL;DR: A novel technique to visualize a high-dimensional likelihood density function that enables the viewer to understand the shape of the high-likelihood region, and uses a three-dimensional projection space to show features that are not salient in only two dimensions. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2012 article

Interest Driven Navigation in Visualization

Healey, C. G., & Dennis, B. M. (2012, January 17). IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

By: C. Healey n & B. Dennis*

author keywords: Bayesian network; classification; navigation; preferences; visualization
topics (OpenAlex): Geographic Information Systems Studies; Data Management and Algorithms; Data Visualization and Analytics
TL;DR: This paper applies techniques from preference elicitation to automatically identify data elements that are of potential interest to the viewer, bundled into spatially local clusters, and connected together to form a graph. (via Semantic Scholar)
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13. Climate Action (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2012 article

On the limits of resolution and visual angle in visualization

Healey, C. G., & Sawant, A. P. (2012, October 1). ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.

By: C. Healey n & A. Sawant n

author keywords: Experimentation; Human Factors; Hue; orientation; luminance; resolution; size; visual acuity; visual angle; visual perception; visualization
topics (OpenAlex): Data Visualization and Analytics; Visual perception and processing mechanisms; Remote Sensing in Agriculture
TL;DR: A perceptual level-of-detail approach for visualizing data that identifies the pixel resolution and subtended visual angle needed to distinguish different values of luminance, hue, size, and orientation and a formalization describing how many pixels and how much physical area on a viewer's retina are required for an element's visual properties to be readily seen. (via Semantic Scholar)
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13. Climate Action (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2012 article

Probing the QCD critical point with relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Bass, S., Petersen, H., Quammen, C., Canary, H., Healey, C., & Taylor, R. (2012, May 16). Open Physics.

By: S. Bass*, H. Petersen*, C. Quammen*, H. Canary*, C. Healey n & R. Taylor*

topics (OpenAlex): High-Energy Particle Collisions Research; Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies; Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions; Nuclear physics research studies
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Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2011 article

Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics

Healey, C. G., & Enns, J. T. (2011, August 3). IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

By: C. Healey n & J. Enns *

co-author countries: Canada 🇨🇦
author keywords: Attention; color; motion; nonphotorealism; texture; visual memory; visual perception; visualization
MeSH headings : Attention; Computer Graphics; Humans; Memory; Models, Theoretical; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Psychophysics; Research; Visual Perception
topics (OpenAlex): Visual Attention and Saliency Detection; Visual perception and processing mechanisms; Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2011 article

Exploring ensemble visualization

Phadke, M. N., Pinto, L., Alabi, O., Harter, J., Taylor, R. M., II, Wu, X., … Healey, C. G. (2011, December 1). Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE.

By: M. Phadke n, L. Pinto n, O. Alabi*, J. Harter*, R. Taylor*, X. Wu*, H. Petersen*, S. Bass *, C. Healey n

author keywords: Ensemble; high-energy physics; perception; heavy ion collision; visualization
topics (OpenAlex): Data Visualization and Analytics; Data Analysis with R; Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
TL;DR: This work proposes two techniques to support ensemble exploration and comparison: a pairwise sequential animation method that visualizes locally neighboring members simultaneously, and a screen door tinting method thatVisualizes subsets of members using screen space subdivision. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

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