In support of research at Northwestern, NUIT provides advanced visualization resources and consulting services for University researchers, across all disciplines, in the production of highly informative visual representations of their real, simulated, or conceptual research data.

Benefits to Researchers

Visualization services offer University researchers the opportunity to analyze, interpret, and gain a greater understanding of their research data through visual representation.

• Communicate science to broader public and peer communities
• Develop outreach media for promoting research
• Visually analyze complex data

Services

Production Animation

Animations are visualization video content resultant from research analysis for the purpose of education and public outreach. These videos offer a visual explanation to viewers the purpose(s) of a research result as well as insight gleaned by researchers from those visualizations in the analysis of their research.

Interactive

In research, this type of visualization gives scientists the ability to walk around their data, pull it apart, and alter the drawing methodologies used to create the visual representation of their data with the goal of gaining insight not possible by looking at the raw data formats.

Illustration

Illustrations often supplement technical text as a means of communicating complex ideas that words alone cannot.  These illustrations - including sketches, paintings, photographs, technical drawings, and info graphics - play a critical explanatory role in academic textbooks, scientific journals, and web-based research publications.

Facilities

The Northwestern visualization services group is co-located within the Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging in Silverman Hall on the Evanston campus. Visualization equipment includes a high performance workstation with specialized graphics capabilities as well as a large format 3D tiled-wall display for immersing university researchers and their students in their data.

Consultation

NUIT visualization specialists meet one-to-one with faculty to determine the appropriate visualization methods that will enhance their research. To request a consultation please contact Matt McCrory, Lead Visualization Engineer, NUIT Academic & Research Technologies.

Additional Information

Support Contacts

Consultation requests:

Matt McCrory
Lead Visualization Engineer
NUIT Academic & Research Technologies

Joseph Paris
Associate Director for Research Computing
NUIT Academic & Research Technologies

All other technology-related questions: