Dr. André Skupin
202 Geography Annex
Department of Geography
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-4493
USA
Phone: (619) 594-6946
Fax: (619) 594-4938
Web: http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Pages/skupin/
Email: skupin@mail.sdsu.edu

Background:

• Full Professor, San Diego State University
  
• 2005-2012 - Asst. & Assoc. Professor - SDSU
• 1998-2005 - Asst. & Assoc. Professor - University of New Orleans
• 1998 Ph.D. Geography - University at Buffalo
• 1992 Dipl.-Ing. Cartography - TU Dresden, Germany
• GIS industry experience with ESRI (USA), NCGIA (USA), GTZ/ISPA (Germany), SRS (Germany), GIMS (South Africa) & others

Areas of Interest:

• Visual Data Mining
• Geographic Data Engineering and Cyberinfrastructures
• Spatio-Temporal Data Transformations
• Information Visualization and Geographic Visualization

CV as pdf (June 2013)

• Map Investigation - GEOG 380
  • next offered: Spring 2014
• Geographic Information Systems - GEOG 484
• next offered: Fall 2013
• GIS Applications
  • next offered: Spring 2014
• Cartographic Design / Animated and Interactive Cartography - GEOG 581
  • next offered: Fall 2013
• Seminar in Knowledge Visualization

• Visualization of high-dimensional data
• Knowledge visualization
• Self-Organizing Map (SOM) workflows
• Travels in attribute space aka 'Computing Déjà Vu'
• Analysis of multivariate, multi-temporal data
• Foundational work on GIS&T Body of Knowledge
  • NSF Project site: gistbok.org
  • Interactive visualization of the GIS&T BoK: BoKVis (Java required)

Recent Publications

Burns, R. and Skupin, A. (accepted - in press) Towards Qualitative Geovisual Analytics: A Case Study Involving Places, People, and Mediated Experience. Cartographica.

Ahearn, S.C., Icke, I., Datta, R., DeMers, M.N., Plewe, B., and Skupin, A. (in press) Re-Engineering the GIS&T Body of Knowledge. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

Wang, N., Biggs, T., and Skupin, A. (2013) Visualizing Gridded Time Series Data with Self-Organizing Maps: An Application to Multi-Year Snow Dynamics in the Northern Hemisphere. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.(link)

Skupin, A., Biberstine, J., and Börner, K. (2013) Visualizing the Topical Structure of the Medical Sciences: A Self-Organizing Map Approach. PLoS ONE. (link)

Boyack, K.W., Newman, D., Duhon, R.D., Klavans, R., Patek, M., Biberstine, J.R., Schijvenaars, B., Skupin, A., Ma, N. and Börner, K. (2011) Clustering More Than Two Million Biomedical Publications: Comparing the Accuracies of Nine Text-Based Similarity Approaches. PLoS ONE. (link)

Skupin, A. and Esperbé, A. (2011) An Alternative Map of the United States Based on an n-Dimensional Model of Geographic Space. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. (link)

Skupin, A. (2011) Mapping Text. Glimpse | the art + science of seeing. 3 (7, Winter): 69-77. (link)

Kolovos, A., Skupin, A. Christakos, G., and Jerrett, M. (2010) Multi-Perspective Analysis and Spatiotemporal Mapping of Air Pollution Monitoring Data. Environmental Science & Technology. (link)

Skupin, A. (2009) Conceptualizing Science: Implications for Knowledge Domain Visualization. Journal of Informetrics. (link)

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Copyright André Skupin last updated: June 2, 2013