BCIT – VIVA Collaboration Announcement

The Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics (VIVA) is pleased to announce that the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has become its latest institutional partner, joining Simon Fraser University (SFU) and The University of British Columbia (UBC).

To celebrate this collaboration, BCIT and VIVA invite Vancouver businesses and analysts to a special event to mark this important Canadian visual analytics initiative.

Organizations everywhere are embracing analytics to take advantage of their increasing data capital. Effective analytics requires an ability to explore this Big Data. This is why interactive visual analytics has become the underpinning of many recent business intelligence tools. To use these tools, however, there is a growing demand for trained people who are able to employ them appropriately.

With Visual Analytics Research and Instruction (VARI) laboratories at SFU and UBC, and soon at BCIT, and various academic, professional and continuing education programs, VIVA and its partners will offer the best visual analytics education and professional training in Canada.

We invite you to join us to celebrate our new collaboration.

Featured Speaker: Dr. Leland Wilkinson

Dr. Leland Wilkinson is a statistician and computer scientist at Tableau Software and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago (http://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/ ). Previously, he was VP of Analytic Visualization at Skytree Inc., an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Northwestern University and President of SYSTAT Inc., a statistical software company he founded in 1984.

Dr. Wilkinson is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. In addition to journal articles and the original SYSTAT computer program and manuals, Dr. Wilkinson is the author of The Grammar of Graphics, the foundation for a number of commercial and open-source visual analytic systems (e.g., IBM-RAVE, Tableau, R-ggplot2 and Python-Bokeh).