The University of Konstanz is one of the eleven universities in Germany that have earned a coveted designation in the government’s Excellence Initiative, which reflects the high calibre of the university’s teaching and research. The campus is characterised by the interconnectedness of the buildings housing the 13 departments, designed to promote interdisciplinary collaboration, together with the pleasing view across the Bodensee with the Swiss mountains in the distance.
Visual analytics across many areas – text feature engineering, document structure, event detection in document streams, sentiment and opinion analysis, geospatial, security and intelligence, high-dimensional data; quality metrics; information visualisation; visual perception and cognition; user interface design.