Jane Adams
(she/her/hers)
PhD Student
Research Interests
- Data visualization
- Network science
- Exploratory data analysis
- Complex systems
- Emergent media art
- Information visualization
- Machine learning
- Computational creativity
Education
- MFA in Emergent Media, Champlain College
- BFA in Graphic Design and Digital Media, Champlain College
Biography
Jane Adams is a doctoral student in the Data Visualization Lab at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Michelle Borkin. Her doctoral research, which she began in 2021 and expects to complete in 2027, focuses on data visualization.
Adams is an emergent media artist whose graduate work involved curating data-driven art exhibits, writing about the evolving relationship between art and science, and building computer-aided interactive, illuminated, and hydroponic sculptural works. This work provided a bridge into computer science, where she typically works in full-stack MERN web development, D3/JS, and Python. For her art projects, Java, C++, and generative adversarial networks come in handy.
Adams’ broad research interest is visualization for exploratory analysis of high-dimension data. In particular, she works on Glue, a NASA- and NSF-funded data visualization project wherein Adams implements visual analytics tools for spotting neurological anomalies in radiology imaging via planar graph embedding of vasculature. Before joining Khoury College, Adams worked as a research analyst at the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center, where she dealt with Twitter/Reddit natural language processing and visualization, as well as exploratory analysis for life insurance underwriting and public health analysis.
Currently, Adams is a visiting scholar at the Jackson Laboratory where she works alongside computational biologists to develop visualization tools for exploratory analysis of systems genetics data. She is affiliated with Data Visualization and the Northeastern University Visualization Consortium, and is a PhD Fellowship Recipient. She has been a featured speaker, panelist, or instructor at numerous computer-science-based and art-based conferences in Vermont, Massachusetts, and California, and was a workshop organizer at IEEE VIS 2020 and 2021.
Recent publications
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Investigating the Visual Utility of Differentially Private Scatterplots
Citation: Liudas Panavas, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Jane Lydia Adams, Jonathan R. Ullman, Ali Sarvghad, Melanie Tory, Cody Dunne. (2024). Investigating the Visual Utility of Differentially Private Scatterplots IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 30, 5370-5385. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3292391 -
Sirius: A Mutual Information Network Tool for Exploratory Visualization Of Mixed Data
Citation: “Sirius: A Mutual Information Tool for Exploratory Visualization of Mixed Data”. Jane Lydia Adams, Todd F. DeLuca, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Yuhang Zheng, Boyoon Choi, Allison Min, Konstantinos Anastasakis, and Michael M. Bessey. -
Quantifying language changes surrounding mental health on Twitter
Citation: “Quantifying language changes surrounding mental health on Twitter”. Anne Marie Stupinski, Thayer Alshaabi, Michael V Arnold, Jane Lydia Adams, Joshua R Minot, Matthew Price, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Christopher M Danforth. -
The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global misogynistic community
Citation: “The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global misogynistic community”. Kelly Gothard, David Rushing Dewhurst, Joshua R Minot, Jane Lydia Adams, Christopher M Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds. -
The growing amplification of social media: measuring temporal and social contagion dynamics for over 150 languages on Twitter for 2009–2020
Citation: "The growing amplification of social media: measuring temporal and social contagion dynamics for over 150 languages on Twitter for 2009–2020". Thayer Alshaabi, David Rushing Dewhurst, Joshua R Minot, Michael V Arnold, Jane L Adams, Christopher M Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds. EPJ Data Science. -
How the world’s collective attention is being paid to a pandemic: COVID-19 related n-gram time series for 24 languages on Twitter
Citation: "How the world’s collective attention is being paid to a pandemic: COVID-19 related n-gram time series for 24 languages on Twitter". Thayer Alshaabi, Michael V Arnold, Joshua R Minot, Jane Lydia Adams, David Rushing Dewhurst, Andrew J Reagan, Roby Muhamad, Christopher M Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds. PLoS One -
Homophily and Heterogeneity in the Cancerous Cell Line Network for Gene Therapy Improvements
Citation: “Homophily and Heterogeneity in the Cancerous Cell Line Network for Gene Therapy Improvements”. Jane Adams, Celestin Coquide, Diana Garcia and Rodrigo Migueles Ramirez. NetSci 2020 International School and Conference on Network Science. -
Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter
Citation: “Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter”. Thayer Alshaabi, Jane L. Adams, Michael V. Arnold, Joshua R. Minot, David R. Dewhurst, Andrew J. Reagan, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds. Science Advances -
Hurricanes and hashtags: Characterizing online collective attention for natural disasters
Citation: “Hurricanes and hashtags: Characterizing online collective attention for natural disasters” Michael V Arnold, David Rushing Dewhurst, Thayer Alshaabi, Joshua R Minot, Jane L Adams, Christopher M Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds. -
Allotaxonometry and rank-turbulence divergence: A universal instrument for comparing complex systems
Citation: “Allotaxonometry and rank-turbulence divergence: A universal instrument for comparing complex systems” Peter Sheridan Dodds, Joshua R Minot, Michael V Arnold, Thayer Alshaabi, Jane Lydia Adams, David Rushing Dewhurst, Tyler J Gray, Morgan R Frank, Andrew J Reagan, Christopher M Danforth. arXiv:2002.09770 -
Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of `being talked about’ for United States’ presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop
Citation: “Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of ‘being talked about’ for United States’ presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop”, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Joshua R Minot, Michael V Arnold, Thayer Alshaabi, Jane Lydia Adams, David Rushing Dewhurst, Andrew J Reagan, Christopher M Danforth.