I’m Zezhong Wang (王 泽中), currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at ixLab, Simon Fraser University with Prof Sheelagh Carpendale. Before that, I received my Ph.D. in 2022 from the University of Edinburgh with an interdisciplinary team Visual+Interactive Data Lab (VisHub), supervised by Dr. Benjamin Bach and Dr. Dave Murray-Rust. My Ph.D. investigates Data Comics, PhD thesis entitled Creating Data Comics for Data-Driven Storytelling.

Data Comics - 数据漫画

Telling compelling data stories with comics Continue reading Data Comics - 数据漫画

Interactive Data Comics

Bring interactions to static data comics (VIS 2021) Continue reading Interactive Data Comics

Cheat Sheets for Data Visualization Techniques

A set of concise graphical explanations to support understanding data visualization techniques (CHI 2020) Continue reading Cheat Sheets for Data Visualization Techniques

Data Comics for Reporting Controlled User Studies in Human-Computer Interaction

Making data comics for illustrating reports of controlled studies (VIS 2020) Continue reading Data Comics for Reporting Controlled User Studies in Human-Computer Interaction

News

• IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC) Visualization Dissertation Award Honorable Mention 2023.

• I started a project Data Comics for Climate Change in the summer of 2023, with Prof Sheelagh Carpendale, Prof Michelle Levy, and Prof Stephan Gruber, supported by the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF).

• I joined ixLab and working with Prof Sheelagh Carpendale in June 2022.