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Fernanda B. Viégas

Researcher

Fernanda B. Viégas is a research scientist and computational designer whose work focuses on the collaborative side of visualization exploring storytelling, collective sensemaking, and online identity. Viégas is known for her pioneering work on visualizing chat histories (Chat Circles), personal email archives (PostHistory and Themail) and Wikipedia activity (History Flow, with Martin Wattenberg). In 2007, Viégas and Wattenberg created Many Eyes, a web site where anyone can upload data, create interactive visualizations, and carry on conversations. Her visualization-based artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and in galleries in Los Angeles and São Paulo.

Fernanda received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the Media Lab at MIT. She is Brazilian and misses the year-round warm weather in Rio de Janeiro where she grew up.

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