We’re excited to announce VisXVision’s first invited speaker at VSS 2024! Dr. Jessica Witt is the PI of the Witt Data Visualization Lab and is a Professor in Psychology at Colorado State University (CSU). Dr. Witt earned her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2007, and has been at CSU since 2012. She won the American Psychological Association’s (APAs’) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (2017), the Janet Taylor Spence Award for transformative early career contributions from APS (2015) and the Steve Yantis Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society (2014). Her new line of research focuses on basic graph design and understanding uncertainty. The work on uncertainty is currently being applied to medical decisions and health disparities, as well as climate and weather predictions.
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