Visual Data Science Lab

LegalAnalytics: bridging visual explanations and workload streamline in Brazilian Supreme Court appeals

Lucas Resck, Felipe A. Moreno, Tobias Veiga, Gerardo Paucar, Ezequiel Fajreldines, Guilherme Klafke, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Jorge Poco

Artificial Intelligence and Law

, 2025

Assessing Urban Environments with Vision-Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of AI-Generated Ratings and Human Volunteer Evaluations

Felipe A. Moreno, Jorge Poco

IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

, 2025

Explainable NLLP: Advancements in Explainable AI for Natural Legal Language Processing

Lucas Resck, Felipe A. Moreno, Tobias Veiga, Gerardo Paucar, Ezequiel Fajreldines, Guilherme Klafke, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Jorge Poco

Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Text

, 2025

ZigzagNetVis: Suggesting Temporal Resolutions for Graph Visualization using Zigzag Persistence

Raphael Tinarrage, Jean Ponciano, Claudio Linhares, Agma Traina, Jorge Poco

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2025

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Assessing Timber Trade Networks and Supply Chains in Brazil

Luis Gustavo Nonato, Victor Russo, Bernardo Costa, Felipe A. Moreno, Guilherme Toledo, Osni Brito de Jesus, Robson Vieira, Marco Lentini, Jorge Poco

Nature Sustainability

, 2025

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2024

Empirical analysis of Binding Precedent efficiency in the Brazilian Supreme Court via Similar Case Retrieval (in-press)

Raphael Tinarrage, Henrique Ennes, Lucas Resck, Lucas Gomes, Jean Ponciano, Jorge Poco

arXiv

, 2024

What Makes a Place Feel Safe? Analyzing Street View Images to Identify Relevant Visual Elements

Felipe A. Moreno, Bruno Brandoli, Jorge Poco

International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT)

, 2024

FishBiasLens: Integrating Large Language Models and Visual Analytics for Bias Detection

Mauro Diaz, Felipe A. Moreno, Juanpablo Heredia, Fabricio Dalvi Venturim, Jorge Poco

IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology (VAST) Challenge

, 2024

Tracking Overfishing: Visual Analytics of Suspicious Behaviors in Commercial Fishing Vessels

Juanpablo Heredia, Fabricio Dalvi Venturim, Mauro Diaz, Felipe A. Moreno, Jorge Poco

IEEE Visual Analytics Science & Technology (VAST) Challenge

, 2024

Exploring the Trade-off Between Model Performance and Explanation Plausibility of Text Classifiers Using Human Rationales

Lucas Resck, Marcos Medeiros Raimundo, Jorge Poco

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL

, 2024

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Granularity at Scale: Estimating Neighborhood Socioeconomic Indicators from High-Resolution Orthographic Imagery and Hybrid Learning

Ethan Brewer, Giovani Valdrighi, Parikshit Solunke, Joao Rulff, Yurii Piadyk, Zhonghui Lv, Jorge Poco, Claudio Silva

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

, 2024

Mining Pareto-Optimal Counterfactual Antecedents with a Branch-And-Bound Model-Agnostic Algorithm

Marcos Medeiros Raimundo, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Jorge Poco

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

, 2024

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2023

MoReVis: A Visual Summary for Spatiotemporal Moving Regions

Giovani Valdrighi, Nivan Ferreira, Jorge Poco

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2023

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Distill n’ Explain: Explaining Graph Neural Networks Using Simple Surrogates

Tamara Pereira, Erik Nascimento, Lucas Resck, Diego Mesquita, Amauri Souza

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

, 2023

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WSAM: Visual Explanations from Style Augmentation as Adversarial Attacker and their Influence in Image Classification

Felipe A. Moreno, Edgar Medina, Jorge Poco

International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications

, 2023

Enforcing Fairness using Ensemble of Diverse Pareto-Optimal Models

Vitória Guardieiro, Marcos Medeiros Raimundo, Jorge Poco

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

, 2023

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LargeNetVis: Visual Exploration of Large Temporal Networks Based on Community Taxonomies

Claudio Linhares, Jean Ponciano, Diogenes Pedro, Luis Rocha, Agma Traina, Jorge Poco

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2023

PDF | Video | Appendix | Demo | Video Presentation

LegalVis: Exploring and Inferring Precedent Citations in Legal Documents

Lucas Resck, Jean Ponciano, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Jorge Poco

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2023

PDF | Video | Appendix | Video Presentation

2022

Analyzing the Equity of the Brazilian National High School Exam by Validating the Item Response Theory's Invariance

Vitória Guardieiro, Marcos Medeiros Raimundo, Jorge Poco

International Conference on Educational Data Mining

, 2022

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SDA-Vis: A Visualization System for Student Dropout Analysis Based on Counterfactual Exploration

Germain García-Zanabria, Daniel A. Gutierrez Pachas, Guillermo Cámara-Chávez, Jorge Poco, Erick Gomez Nieto

Applied Sciences

, 2022

ClinicalPath: A Visualization Tool to Improve the Evaluation of Electronic Health Records in Clinical Decision-Making

Claudio Linhares, Daniel Lima, Jean Ponciano, Mauro Olivatto, Marco Gutierrez, Jorge Poco, Caetano Traina Jr., Agma Traina

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2022

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Combining Clutter Reduction Methods for Temporal Network Visualization

Jean Ponciano, Claudio Linhares, Luis Rocha, Elaine Faria, Bruno Travençolo

ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing

, 2022

How Do Curricular Design Changes Impact Computer Science Programs?: A Case Study at San Pablo Catholic University in Peru

Daniel A. Gutierrez Pachas, Germain García-Zanabria, Alex J. Cuadros-Vargas, Guillermo Cámara-Chávez, Jorge Poco, Erick Gomez Nieto

Education Sciences

, 2022

Exploring Scientific Literature by Textual and Image Content using DRIFT

Ximena Pocco, Tiago Silva, Jorge Poco, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Erick Gomez Nieto

Computers & Graphics

, 2022

17K-Graffiti: Spatial and Crime Data Assessments in São Paulo City

Bahram Lavi, Eric Tokuda, Felipe A. Moreno, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Claudio Silva, Jorge Poco

International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications

, 2022

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JamVis: Exploration and Visualization of Traffic Jams

Elio Rodriguez, Nivan Ferreira, Jorge Poco

The European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ ST)

, 2022

ChartText Linking Text with Charts in Documents

Joao Pinheiro, Jorge Poco

arXiv

, 2022

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2021

Quantifying Urban Safety Perception on Street View Images

Felipe A. Moreno, Bahram Lavi, Jorge Poco

International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT)

, 2021

Trajectory Anomaly Detection based on Similarity Analysis

GF Quispe-Torres, Harley Vera-Olivera, Lauro Enciso-Rojas, Germain García-Zanabria

Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática

, 2021

DRIFT: A Visual Analytic Tool for Scientific Literature Exploration Based on Textual and Image Content

Ximena Pocco, Jorge Poco, Matheus Viana, Rogerio de Paula, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Erick Gomez Nieto

Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI)

, 2021

PDF | Honorable Mention in Visualization | Video 1 | Video 2

Urban Perception: Can we Understand Why a Street is Safe?

Felipe A. Moreno, Bahram Lavi, Jorge Poco

Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI)

, 2021

CriPAV: Street-Level Crime Patterns Analysis and Visualization

Germain García-Zanabria, Marcos Medeiros Raimundo, Jorge Poco, Marcelo Nery, Claudio Silva, Sergio Adorno, Luis Gustavo Nonato

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2021

A Comparative Study of WHO and WHEN Prediction Approaches for Early Identification of University Students at Dropout Risk

Daniel A. Gutierrez Pachas, Germain García-Zanabria, Alex J. Cuadros-Vargas, Guillermo Cámara-Chávez, Jorge Poco, Erick Gomez Nieto

Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática

, 2021

An Online and Nonuniform Timeslicing Method for Network Visualisation

Jean Ponciano, Claudio Linhares, Elaine Faria, Bruno Travençolo

Computers & Graphics

, 2021

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CrimAnalyzer: Understanding Crime Patterns in São Paulo

Germain García-Zanabria, Jaqueline Silveira, Jorge Poco, Afonso Paiva, Marcelo Nery, Claudio Silva, Sergio Adorno, Luis Gustavo Nonato

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2021

Mirante: A Visualization Tool for Analyzing Urban Crimes

2020

Germain García-Zanabria, Erick Gomez Nieto, Jaqueline Silveira, Jorge Poco, Marcelo Nery, Sergio Adorno, Luis Gustavo Nonato

Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI)

, 2020

PDF | Video | Best Paper Award in Visualization

The Effect of Color Scales on Climate Scientists' Objective and Subjective Performance in Spatial Data Analysis Tasks

Aritra Dasgupta, Jorge Poco, Bernice Rogowitz, Kyungsik Han, Enrico Bertini, Claudio Silva

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2020

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2018

Extracting and Retargeting Color Mappings from Bitmap Images of Visualizations

Jorge Poco, Angela Mayhua, Jeffrey Heer

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2018

Extracting Visual Encodings from Map Chart Images with Color-encoded Scalar Values

Angela Mayhua, Erick Gomez Nieto, Jeffrey Heer, Jorge Poco

Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI)

, 2018

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2017

Reverse-Engineering Visualizations: Recovering Visual Encodings from Chart Images

Jorge Poco, Jeffrey Heer

Computer Graphics Forum

, 2017

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2016

iStar (i*): An Interactive Star Coordinates Approach for High-Dimensional Data Exploration

Germain García-Zanabria, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Erick Gomez Nieto

Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI)

, 2016

Reducing the Analytical Bottleneck for Domain Scientists: Lessons from a Climate Data Visualization Case Study

Aritra Dasgupta, Jorge Poco, Enrico Bertini, Claudio Silva

Computing in Science & Engineering

, 2016

Using Maximum Topology Matching to Explore Differences in Species Distribution Models

2015

Jorge Poco, Harish Doraiswamy, Marian Talbert, Jeffrey Morisette, Claudio Silva

IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference

, 2015

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Bridging Theory with Practice: An Exploratory Study of Visualization Use and Design for Climate Model Comparison

Aritra Dasgupta, Jorge Poco, Yaxing Wei, Robert Cook, Enrico Bertini, Claudio Silva

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2015

PDF | Website

Exploring Traffic Dynamics in Urban Environments Using Vector-Valued Functions

Jorge Poco, Harish Doraiswamy, Huy T. Vo, João L. D. Comba, Juliana Freire, Claudio Silva

Computer Graphics Forum

, 2015

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2014

Riding from Urban Data to Insight Using New York City Taxis

Juliana Freire, Claudio Silva, Huy T. Vo, Harish Doraiswamy, Nivan Ferreira, Jorge Poco

IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin

, 2014

Visual Reconciliation of Alternative Similarity Spaces in Climate Modeling

Jorge Poco, Aritra Dasgupta, Yaxing Wei, William Hargrove, Christopher Schwalm, Deborah N. Huntzinger, Robert Cook, Enrico Bertini, Claudio Silva

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2014

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SimilarityExplorer: A Visual Inter-Comparison Tool for Multifaceted Climate Data

Jorge Poco, Aritra Dasgupta, Yaxing Wei, William Hargrove, Christopher Schwalm, Robert Cook, Enrico Bertini, Claudio Silva

Computer Graphics Forum

, 2014

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2013

Visual Exploration of Big Spatio-Temporal Urban Data: A Study of New York City Cab Trips

Nivan Ferreira, Jorge Poco, Huy T. Vo, Juliana Freire, Claudio Silva

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

, 2013

PDF | Website | Presentation | Video 1 | Video 2

UV-CDAT: Analyzing climate datasets from a user’s perspective

Emanuele Santos, Jorge Poco, Yaxing Wei, Shishi Liu, Bob Cook, D. N. Williams, Claudio Silva

Computing in Science & Engineering

, 2013

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2012

Employing 2D projections for fast visual exploration of large fiber tracking data

Jorge Poco, Danilo M. Eler, Fernando V. Paulovich, Rosane Minghim

Computer Graphics Forum

, 2012

Piecewise Laplacian-based Projection for Interactive Large Data Exploration and Organization

2011

Fernando V. Paulovich, Danilo M. Eler, Jorge Poco, C.P. Botha, Rosane Minghim, Luis Gustavo Nonato

Computer Graphics Forum

, 2011

A Framework for Exploring Multidimensional Data with 3D Projections

Jorge Poco, R. Etemadpour, Fernando V. Paulovich, T.V. Long, P. Rosenthal, M.C.F. Oliveira, L. Linsen

Computer Graphics Forum

, 2011