Doctoral Candidate Sam Walkow successfully defended her dissertation, “USING DATA STORIES TO UNDERSTAND SPACIAL MENTAL MODELS OF DATA IN NATURAL SCIENCE DOMAINS: CHARACTERIZING TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE” on December 12th and will graduate May 2024.
Program Area: Design, Technology and Society & Data Analytics and Information Visualization
Research:
I am a PhD student, and part of the Data Exploration Lab. I am interested in how software is used, understood, and re-purposed in the research environment. In particular, I want to understand how different science domains utilize software to visualize and analyze their data.