Using Visualization to Solve Hard Problems

Co-Founder, Lucify (FI)

Juho Ojala is a systems thinker fascinated by the challenge of communicating complex issues and dangerous ideas. His passion lies in designing and building software that makes data useful. In 2015, Juho and two friends founded Lucify, a Helsinki-based data visualization firm. Lucify’s interactive visualizations — for clients like the United Nations, Finnish Ministry of the Interior, and Aalto University — often tackle statistically complex issues, such as immigration application data and net European immigration.

At Visualizing Knowledge, Juho will speak about the promise of using dynamic visualization as a tool for thought to augment human thinking. The best way to explore what this means in practice is to try solving difficult problems in different domains. Juho will share useful advice on how visualization practitioners may structure their workflow and thinking, utilizing examples from two recent projects. He’ll examine how visualization greatly improves understanding when working with natural language processing, and share his process for creating a visual tool to gradually understand a complex topic, in this case, Einstein’s theory of relativity.