This presentation will cover the basic techniques, and some of the available tools, for visualization, and will explain how to avoid miscommunicating information from visualizations.

David Ebert is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and directs the Purdue University Regional Visualization and Analytics Center. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1991. Dr. Ebert performs research in visual analytics, volume rendering, information visualization, perceptually-based visualization, illustrative visualization, and procedural abstraction of complex, massive data. Ebert has been very active in the visualization community, teaching courses, presenting papers, co-chairing many conference program committees, serving on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee, serving as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and serving on the National Visualization and Analytics Center's National Research Agenda Panel.

NCN@Purdue Student Leadership Team
Network for Computational Nanotechnology
The Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• David Ebert (2007), "Is Seeing Believing? How to Think Visually and Analyze with Both Your Eyes and Brain," https://nanohub.org/resources/2512.

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1. algorithms
2. biomolecular electronics
3. cyberinfrastructure
4. nanowires
5. NCN Group - Simulation and Computational Science
6. programming techniques
7. software development
8. tutorial
9. visualization