Education
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August 2019 - January 2022: Master of Engineering Sciences, specialty in Computer Science. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Thesis: Desarrollo y evaluación de un modelo de diseño de visualizaciones para inteligencia artificial explicable [Development and evaluation of a visualization design model for explainable artificial intelligence].
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March 2015 - July 2019: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Research Groups
- Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. IALab
- Human-centered Artificial Intelligence and Visualization. HAIvis
Research interests
Information Visualization, Applications of Data Mining, Machine Learning, Web Scraping
Teaching (spanish course)
- 2024-1 IIC2026: Information Visualization
- 2024-1 IIC2233: Advanced Computer Programming
- 2024-1 INF3842: Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
- 2023-2 IIC2026: Information Visualization
- 2023-2 IIC2233: Advanced Computer Programming
- 2023-1 INF3842: Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
- 2023-1 IIC2026: Information Visualization
- 2023-1 IIC2233: Advanced Computer Programming
- 2022-2 IIC2026: Information Visualization
- 2022-2 IIC2233: Advanced Computer Programming
Projects
Datasets
- Anime Recommendation Database 2020 (kaggle) (code).
- Anime-Planet Recommendation Database 2020 (kaggle).
- Anime-Planet Character (waifus/husbando) Database 2020 (kaggle).
Visualizations with D3.js
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Draw Your data (spanish visualization): draw the visualization and download the dataset to generate that visualization.
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MyAnimeList Visualization: explore animes releases from 1917 to 2021 with this visualization. Discover the most relevant words of the synopsis according to the anime’s genre. See how change the distribution of anime scores depending on the age-rating and its type. This visualization use the Anime Recommendation Database 2020 (kaggle).
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SDGs Visualization (spanish visualization): explore the relationship between academic publications of the UC and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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DCC Requirements (spanish visualization): check the requirements of each course from DCC UC.
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Banner UC vacancies (spanish visualization): Explore how to change UC course vacancies for each course enrollment starting in 2019.
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Force Graph visualization (spanish visualization): check how to change the force graph when some parameters are edited.
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Small Multiple with Idyll (spanish visualization): learn how use Idyll to create a scrollytelling visualization. (code).
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Barchart with Piechart (spanish visualization): example of using the pie chart as a complement to a bar chart.
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Bar Chart race compilation: visualize different datasets with an Bar chart race.
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Language-Network: show language similarity based on the Levenshtein distance, a string metric for measuring the difference between two words. Work done by other people, but not currently working. I only edited the minimum necessary to make the visualization work again.
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Museum MONA visualization (spanish visualization): artistic visualization to explore data about the Mona museum. Homework for the students of my course Visualization of information in 2022-2.
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IMDB Movies visualization (spanish visualization): artistic visualization to explore data about IMDB movies. Homework for the students of my course Visualization of information in 2023-1.
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Solar System visualization (spanish visualization): artistic visualization to explore data about Solar System. Homework for the students of my course Visualization of information in 2023-2.
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Dragon Ball visualization (spanish visualization): artistic visualization to explore data about Dragon Ball in honor of Akira Toriyama. Homework for the students of my course Visualization of information in 2024-1.
Others
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Monogatari (spanish project): create your own story with random cards.
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Tic Tac Toe Version 2: play Tic Tac Toe where the tokens can eat the smallest tokens.
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Anidle: guess the anime of the day.
Publications
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Vera, Camila & Lucchini, Francesca & Bro, Naim & Mendoza, Marcelo & Löbel, Hans & Gutiérrez, Felipe & Dimter, Jan & Cuchacovic, Gabriel & Reyes, Axel & Valdivieso, Hernán & Alvarado, Nicolás & Toro, Sergio. (2022). Learning to cluster urban areas: two competitive approaches and an empirical validation. EPJ Data Science. 11. 10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00374-2.
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Desarrollo y evaluación de un modelo de diseño de visualizaciones para inteligencia artificial explicable [Development and evaluation of a visualization design model for explainable artificial intelligence]. Master’s thesis in the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. 2022.
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Marcelo Mendoza, Hans Lobel, Naim Bro, Felipe Gutierrez, Francesca Lucchini, Hernan Valdivieso, Camila Vera. Finding neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile: a graph neural network approach to urban cluster detection. In: Urban Complex Systems, October 27, 2021.
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Camila Vera, Francesca Lucchini, Felipe Gutiérrez, Hernán Valdivieso, Hans Löbel, Naim Bro, Marcelo Mendoza. Parametric sensitivity in Graph Neural Network for Urban Cluster Detection, a case study. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, November 30 - December 2, Madrid, Spain, 2021.
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Analyzing the Design Space for Visualizing Neural Attention in Text Classification. Hernán Valdivieso, Denis Parra, Andrés Carvallo & Gabriel Rada, PUC, Chile. Katrien Verbert, KU Leuven, Belgium & Tobias Schreck, TU Graz, Austria. IEEE Vis Vancouver 2019, VisXAI Workshop.
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OpyenXES: A Complete Python Library for the eXtensible Event Stream Standard. Hernan Valdivieso, Wai Lam Jonathan Lee, Jorge Munoz-Gama, and Marcos Sepúlveda. BPM Conference 2018 Demo Papers.