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The Coast to Coast Seminar Series Presents Dr. Sara Diamond OCAD University This talk underscores the importance of design methods and practices in approaching challenges in the representation of big data. The talk will first reference debates regarding the role and nature of aesthetics and the importance of these to perception and insight, providing illustrations of different aesthetic approaches, at times to the same data set. It will further the discussion of insight by considering ways to work with users and data sets that draw from different practices within design. Fundamentally, design and designers need to be part of the visual analytics equation. Tuesday, February 26 3:30 to 4:30 pm Duffy 202 About the Series: The Coast-to-Coast Seminar Series is a Canada-wide seminar series, presented every second Tuesday via Access Grid videoconferencing technology. The session theme for the spring 2013 is 鈥淔rom data to knowledge to action". Please send an email to ag-ofm@westgrid.ca if you would like more information. Daisy MacAusland Administrative Assistant Physics Department dmacausland@upei.ca