Invited Keynote, Invited Lecture at a Speaker Series

A Decade of Lessons in Teaching Data Visualization — What, How and Why
Statistical Society of Canada, June 2021.

Don’t look. See! Are we blinded by Data (Visualization)?
Women in Data Science, Stanford University, Mar. 2020 — Best of WiDS Speakers

Biases and data
TEDxUoft : Spectrum, Toronto, Apr. 2018

Cultivating critical thinking through visualization
Closing Keynote Address at the Human Factors Engineering Inter-University Workshop, Toronto, Nov. 2018.

Seeing Beyond the Charts : How to cultivate critical thinking through visualization
Speaker Series, Graphics Interfaces conference, Toronto, May 2018

Left Brain, Right Brain: : Designing Interaction for Visual Analytics and Creativity
Segal Seminar Series, Northwestern University, October 2017.

Diffamation: Using Text Animated Transitions to Support Navigation in Document Histories
plenary session of the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, Belgium, May 2010.

Invited Panelist

DataViz, Intelligence pour la décision?
Datarama #5, July 2020.

On direct manipulation (discussing Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle)
Festival of ideas, Toronto, ON, November 2012.

Centre on Innovation for Information Visualization and Data Driven Design - Information Visualization for Text Analysis
IBM Centers for Advanced Studies: CASCON 2010, Markham, ON, November 2010.

Invited Seminar

Interaction Humain-Machine — Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Sensibilisation aux Études Universitaires et à la Recherche, Université de Montréal, July 2020.

Left Brain, Right Brain: Designing Interaction for Visual Analytics and Creativity
Stanford University, Mar. 2020.

An interaction paradigm for visual analytics and creativity
University of Edinburg, Edinburgh, Scotland, May. 2019

Increasing the Transparency of Research Papers with Explorable Multiverse Analyses
DoSS Faculty Reseach Day 2018, Fields Institute, Toronto, Nov. 2018

Seeing Beyond the Charts : How to cultivate critical thinking through visualization
TORCHI: World Usability Day, Toronto, Nov. 2018.

Increasing the Transparency of Research Papers with Explorable Multiverse Analyses
Workshop on Statistical Inference, Learning and Models in Data Science; Fields Institute, Toronto, 24 Sept. 2018

Design principles for visualization and creativity
Uncharted, Toronto, July 2018.

Make our society think again: Cultivating critical thinking through visualization education
Toronto User Experience (TuX) members presentation, Toronto, February 2018

Voir grand petit à petit: Designing interaction for visualization
Trinity College, Toronto, February 2018

Designing Interaction for Visual Analytics and Creativity
City University London, London, July 2017

Direct space-time sketching and editing of visual media
University College London, London, June 2017

Left Brain, Right Brain: Desigining Interaction for Visual Analytics and Creativity
University of Toronto, Feb. 2017

Toward Algorithm Transparency
Rencontres Inria-Industries, Imaginarium Lille, November 2016

Direct space-time sketching and editing of visual media
Microsoft Research, Redmond, June 2016

Data Visualization
Journée Big Data at Euratech, Lille, November 2015

La visualisation interactive au service du savoir-faire de l’analyste
Euratech Lille, July 2015

Animations in Visualization
Information+Visualization seminars, Potsdam Univ. of Applied Sciences, Germany, Sep. 2014

30 minutes de Sciences - Les animations dans les interfaces
Inria Lille Nord-Europe, September 2014

Animations at the interface
University of Waterloo, Canada, June 2014

Principles for more accessible data exploration tools
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, June 2013

Principles for more accessible data exploration tools
Adobe Research, San Francisco, April 2013

Visual Analytics for the Masses
SIAT, Symon Fraser University, Vancouver, March 2013

Visual Analytics for the Masses
University of Calgary, Calgary, February 2013

Designing Interactive Visual Interfaces
Design Department, Universidade de Brasília, Brasil, Dec. 2012

The use of smooth animated transitions and simple interactions in Infovis
Autodesk Research, Toronto, Canada, March 2011

Animated transitions and simple interactions to support rich visual exploration
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada, November 2010

Diffamation: Using Text Animated Transitions to Support Navigation in Document Histories
University of Toronto, Canada, March 2010

Recognition of Quasi-Similar Patterns in Graphs: Heuristics and Applications
Université Paris-Sud, Saclay, December 2007