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Tanya Howden<\/h1>\n

BSc Computer Science (First-Class Honours)<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Texture Lab,
\nSchool of Mathematical and Computer Science,
\nHeriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
\nth101 at hw dot ac dot uk
\n+44 (0)131 451 4166
\nLinkedIn profile<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/a>Research Interests<\/h1>\n

My main interest concerns telling a story with data through the use of data visualisation. I came across this area in my undergraduate during an internship where I got the chance to use D3.js for the first time. I fell in love with the ability to present data in a way that allows people to gather new insights and understanding that they wouldn’t otherwise have when viewing data in tabular form.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Visualising Learning Materials<\/h2>\n

At the moment, I’m looking into how we can use highly interactive visualisations to get a better understanding of the structure and treatment of concepts in learning materials. I’m hoping that this will allow for insights into how we can better select appropriate learning materials. <\/p>\n

Below is an image of the current prototype that I’ve been working on, it shows the basic overview of a course that is taught at Heriot-Watt University with each lecture broken down into several different coloured topics. These colours relate to the hexagons on the left-hand side which have been produced using topic modelling on the lecture materials.<\/p>\n

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Tanya Howden BSc Computer Science (First-Class Honours) Texture Lab, School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS th101 at hw dot ac dot uk +44 (0)131 451 4166 LinkedIn profile Research Interests My main interest concerns telling … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/texturelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/texturelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/texturelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/texturelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/texturelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/texturelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/texturelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2119\/revisions\/2137"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/texturelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/texturelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}