Eduardo Vernier

I hold a joint PhD degree from the universities of Groningen and Rio Grande do Sul for my research on visualization methods for hierarchical and high-dimensional data. I focused on dynamic treemaps and dynamic projection techniques, creating comprehensive evaluations, developing state-of-the-art methods, and applying these in the context of hyperkinetic movement disorders. I was advised by Prof. Alexandru Telea and Prof. João Comba.

Since 2021, I have been working as a data scientist at MLPrograms (part of OpenGI) in Amsterdam, creating ML models and analytics tools for the auto insurance market.

Curriculum vitae

PhD Thesis

Visualization of Dynamic Multidimensional and Hierarchical Datasets

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Peer-reviewed articles

8. Guided Stable Dynamic Projections

E.F. Vernier, J.L.D. Comba, A.C. Telea Proc. EuroVis, Zurich, Switzerland (Online) Computer Graphics Forum - 2021 paper appendix resources video bibtex

7. Quantitative Evaluation of Time-Dependent Multidimensional Projection Techniques

E.F. Vernier, R. Garcia, I.P. da Silva, J.L.D. Comba, A.C. Telea Proc. EuroVis, Norrköping, Sweden (Online) Computer Graphics Forum - 2020 paper resources video bibtex

6. Quantitative Comparison of Time-Dependent Treemaps

E.F. Vernier, M. Sondag, J.L.D. Comba, B. Speckmann, A.C. Telea, K. Verbeek Proc. EuroVis, Norrköping, Sweden (Online) Computer Graphics Forum - 2020 paper resources video bibtex

5. Selecting and Sharing Multidimensional Projection Algorithms: A Practical View

M. Espadoto, E.F. Vernier, A.C. Telea Proc. VisGap, Norrköping, Sweden (Online) - Eurographics - 2020 paper video bibtex

4. A Stable Greedy Insertion Treemap Algorithm for Software Evolution Visualization

E.F. Vernier, J.L.D. Comba, A.C. Telea Proc. SIBGRAPI, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil - 2018 paper resources slides bibtex

3. Quantitative Comparison of Dynamic Treemaps for Software Evolution Visualization

E.F. Vernier, J.L.D. Comba, A.C. Telea Proc. VISSOFT, Madrid, Spain - 2018 - Distinguished paper award paper resources slides bibtex

2. Quantitative Comparison of Treemap Techniques for Time-Dependent Hierarchies

E.F. Vernier, J.L.D. Comba, A.C. Telea Proc. EuroVis, Barcelona, Spain - 2017 - Best poster award paper poster video resources bibtex

1. Metric Evolution Maps: Multidimensional Attribute-driven Exploration of Software Repositories

R.R.O. da Silva, E.F. Vernier, P.R. Rauber, J.L.D Comba, R. Minghim, A.C. Telea Proc. Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV), Bayreuth, Germany - 2016 paper bibtex

0. Visualization of the Evolution of Software Quality Metrics on Open Source Projects

Advisors: J.L.D Comba, A.C. Telea - 2016 Bachelor conclusion thesis. thesis resources

Fun side projects

bike de boa (2017)

bike de boa is an open and collaborative map of places to park your bike. It lets people search for bike parking spots around the city and shows reviews and information curated by other local cyclists.

We've cataloged 3 thousand pieces of bike infrastructure in 50 Brazilian cities, accumulating over a thousand reviews. We've built this app hoping that it helps cyclists get around safely in a country where bikes are not a popular means of transport and are seen mostly as obstacles on the road.

I worked mainly on the android app which was discontinued after the whole application was reimplemented as a Progressive Web App. The website has currently over 200k visits!

Check it out at bikedeboa.com.br

training notification channels (2020)

In my student tennis club, we faced a challenge regarding notifying club members about available spots in tennis practice sessions. Typically, if a member couldn't attend their regularly scheduled practice, their spot would become available for another club member to fill in. However, the problem was that these openings were advertised on a website that wasn't frequently checked by members.

To address this issue, I took the initiative to create a set of channels and bots on Telegram that notify club members of freed positions as soon as they become available.

After the system was implemented - using Python code running on EC2 - it was adopted by over 300 club members and we saw a significant increase in the number of people taking part in training.

fitness tracker (2022)

For the last few years, I've been using google calendar and strava for tracking my sports activities. I do this to organize myself and keep motivated. Recently I wrote a program that reads these two feeds and creates a plot like the one on the left. This script runs daily and sets this image as my wallpaper (click on the image to make it bigger).

This has been a great tool for staying focused on reaching my fitness goals and tracking injuries.

efvernier [at] gmail.com