cognitive science

Cognitive biases in decision-making under uncertainty with interactive data visualizations

In this thesis, we hypothesize that data visualization users are subject to systematic errors, or cognitive biases, in decision-making under uncertainty. Based on research from psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive science, we design five …

Uncertainty visualizations for improving data science decision-making: How I learned to stop worrying and love uncertainty (by visualizing it)

From a once-in-a-century pandemic to volatile swings in stock markets to turbulent political elections, uncertainty is all around us. Yet why do so many data analysts, data scientists and data journalists tend to ignore uncertainty? Or worse, can bad …

Explainable AI: Opening up the black box

Recent advances in machine learning and deep learning have provided substantial gains in many predictive tasks like image recognition, text classification, and speech recognition. However, implementing such models in practice, especially for …