Time-based Impact Mosaics
TreeeX
An Interactive Chart of Biography
Predominance Tag Maps
Profiling of Musicians
TagPies
iteal
TRAViz
TagSpheres
GeoTemCo

ABOUT ME

Professor of Data Science
Head of the Centre for Visual Data Science
Head of the Centre for Digital Humanities

I received my PhD degree in computer science in 2016 from Leipzig University, and I was appointed to full professor by the University of Southern Denmark in 2023. In my research, I gained broad experience in developing information visualization and visual analytics techniques in various interdisciplinary projects addressing current research questions in (digital) humanities, linguistics, social sciences, biology and sports. My interest in data science is founded in the aim to bridge the gap between computer science and application areas by developing sophisticated visual interfaces in a participatory visual design approach, aiming to generate gold standard data sets and develop new data science methodologies. A further target of my research is developing science communication tools for a general public audience. My currently funded projects both aim to support experts as well as general public users for gaining domain insights.

E-Mail
stjaenicke@imada.sdu.dk

Address
Office Ø13-508a-2
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA)
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark

PUBLICATIONS

2023

G. Walsh, N. S. Andersen, N. Stoianov and S. Jänicke.
A Survey of Geospatial-Temporal Visualizations for Military Operations
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2023.
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C. McCarthy, P. Tampakis, M. Chiarandini, M. B. Randers, S. Jänicke and A. Zimek.
Analyzing Passing Sequences for the Prediction of Goal-Scoring Opportunities
Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics: 9th International Workshop, MLSA 2022. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 27-40). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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2022

C. Meinecke, C. Hall and S. Jänicke.
Towards Enhancing Virtual Museums by Contextualizing Art through Interactive Visualizations
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 15(4), 1-26.
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E. Mayr, F. Windhager, J. Liem, S. Beck, S. Koch, J. Kusnick and S. Jänicke.
The Multiple Faces of Cultural Heritage: Towards an Integrated Visualization Platform for Tangible and Intangible Cultural Assets
IEEE 7th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH) (pp. 13-18).
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E. Andersen, M. Chiarandini, M. Hassani, S. Jänicke, P. Tampakis and A. Zimek.
Evaluation of Probability Distribution Distance Metrics in Traffic Flow Outlier Detection
23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) (pp. 64-69).
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R. Khulusi, S. Billib and S. Jänicke.
Exploring Life in Concentration Camps through a Visual Analysis of Prisoners’ Diaries
Information, 13(2), 54.
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T. Hyrup, P. Matthews, D. N. Nguyen, J. Kusnick and S. Jänicke.
Danish Companies Dashboard: An Interactive, Geospatial Visualisation of Industries and Profit in Denmark
LEVIA 2022: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications.
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J. M. Vega, N. Uri-Carreño, J. Kusnick, and S. Jänicke.
Sustainable Urban Wastewater Treatment Visualizations
EuroVis Posters, 2022.
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N. Hansen, S. Lorentzen, S. Widell, J. Kusnick and S. Jänicke.
Tornado Visualizer: Analyzing the Destructive Impact of Tornadoes in the United States
Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis) 2022.
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T. Yousef and S. Jänicke.
Visual Evaluation of Translation Alignment Data
EuroVis Short Papers, 2022.
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R. Khulusi, J. Focht and S. Jänicke.
Visual analysis of linked musicological data with the musixplora
Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications: 15th International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2020 Valletta, Malta, February 27–29, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 183-204). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
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S. Jänicke.
A Research-Teaching Guide for Visual Data Analysis in Digital Humanities
Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications: 15th International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2020 Valletta, Malta, February 27–29, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 205-222). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
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2021

C. Meinecke, A. D. Hakimi and S. Jänicke.
Explorative Visual Analysis of Rap Music
Information, 13(1), 10.
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N. S. Andersen, M. Chiarandini, S. Jänicke, P. Tampakis and A. Zimek.
Detecting Wandering Behavior of People with Dementia
2021 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW) (pp. 727-733). IEEE.
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M. Reckziegel, D. J. Wrisley, T. W. Hixson and S. Jänicke.
Visual exploration of historical maps
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(Supplement_2), ii251-ii272.
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C. Meinecke, D. J. Wrisley and S. Jänicke.
Explaining Semi-Supervised Text Alignment Through Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(12), 4797-4809.
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S. Syed, T. Yousef, K. Al-Khatib, S. Jänicke and M. Potthast.
Summary Explorer: Visualizing the State of the Art in Text Summarization
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 185–194. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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M. B. Jensen and S. Jänicke.
‘Potency is important for a real man’: Affective Readings of Shame and Performance Anxiety in Spam Selling Viagra and other Sexuopharmaceuticals
Somatechnics, 11(1), 68-91.
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R. Khulusi, J. Focht and S. Jänicke.
MusiXplora: Accessing Digitized Musicological Linked Knowledge Through Visualization
Conference Abstracts, EADH, 2021.
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J. Kusnick, J. Focht and S. Jänicke.
Visualizing the Aura of Musical Instruments
Conference Abstracts, EADH, 2021.
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C. Meinecke and S. Jänicke.
Detecting Text Reuse and Similarities between Artists in Rap Music through Visualization
LEVIA 2020: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications.
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2020

S. Jänicke.
Visualisering af Danmarks kulturarv
Aktuel Naturvidenskab, Nr.5, 2020, pages 18-22.
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English Version: Visualizing Denmark's Cultural Heritage
PDF | DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/bt4yj

T. Yousef and S. Jänicke.
A Survey of Text Alignment Visualization
IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2020.
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S. Jänicke.
Teaching on the Intersection of Digital Humanities and Visualization
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2020.
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S. Jänicke, P. Kaur, P. Kuzmicki, and J. Schmidt.
Participatory Visualization Design as an Approach to Minimize the Gap between Research and Application
VisGap Workshop 2020. The Eurographics Association.
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L. F. Smith and S. Jänicke.
The Impact of EuroVis Publications
EuroVis Posters, 2020.
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M. Reckziegel, L. Pfeiffer, C. Heine, and S. Jänicke.
Modeling How Humans Judge Dot-Label Relations in Point Cloud Visualizations
IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2020.
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R. Khulusi, J. Kusnick, C. Meinecke, C. Gillmann, J. Focht and S. Jänicke.
A Survey on Visualizations for Musical Data
Computer Graphics Forum, 2020.
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S. Jänicke.
Teaching on the Intersection of Visualization and Digital Humanities
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2020.
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R. Khulusi, J. Kusnick, J. Focht and S. Jänicke.
musiXplora: Visual Analysis of a Musicological Encyclopedia
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2020.
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J. Kusnick, R. Khulusi, J. Focht and S. Jänicke.
A Timeline Metaphor for Analyzing the Relationships between Musical Instruments and Musical Pieces
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2020.
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2019

S. Jänicke, E. Beech and M. Rivers.
Exploring the diversity and conservation status of tree species with TreeeX
In: Environmental Earth Sciences. 78, 21, 627.
PDF (pre-print) | DOI: 10.1007/s12665-019-8628-y

C. Meinecke, D. J. Wrisley and S. Jänicke.
Automated Alignment of Medieval Text Versions based on Word Embeddings
LEVIA 2019: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications.
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S. Jänicke.
A Visualization Course for Journalism Students
IEEE VIS 2019 Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm).
PDF (pre-print) | DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/vg9x7

M. Reckziegel and S. Jänicke.
Time Varying Predominance Tag Maps
IEEE VIS 2019 Short Papers.
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R. Khulusi, J. Kusnick, J. Focht and S. Jänicke.
An Interactive Chart of Biography
IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2019 (PacificVis).
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S. Jänicke, M. John and A. Geßner.
The Value of Tag Cloud Visualizations for Textual Analysis
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2019.
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M. Reckziegel, D. J. Wrisley, T. W. Hixson and S. Jänicke.
Using Visualization to Understand the Complex Spatiality of Mappae Mundi
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2019.
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S. Jänicke.
Visual Exploration of the European Red List
Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis) 2019, The Eurographics Association.
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2018

S. Jänicke.
Time-based Impact Mosaics
IEEE VIS 2018 Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm).
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C. Meinecke and S. Jänicke.
Visual Analysis of Engineers’ Biographies and Engineering Branches
LEVIA 2018: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications.
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S. Jänicke.
Timages: Enhancing Time Graphs with Iconographic Information
LEVIA 2018: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications.
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S. Jänicke and D. J. Wrisley.
On Alignment of Medieval Poetry
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2018.
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S. Jänicke.
TreeeX: Exploring the Diversity of Tree Species
Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis), The Eurographics Association.
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M. Reckziegel, M. F. Cheema, G. Scheuermann and S. Jänicke.
Predominance Tag Maps
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
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S. Jänicke, J. Blumenstein, M. Rücker, D. Zeckzer and G. Scheuermann.
TagPies: Comparative Visualization of Textual Data
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2018.
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2017

S. Jänicke and D. J. Wrisley.
Interactive Visual Alignment of Medieval Text Versions
IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, IEEE VAST 2017.
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S. Jänicke and D. J. Wrisley.
Visualizing Mouvance: Toward a visual analysis of variant medieval text traditions
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH).
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S. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
On the Visualization of Hierarchical Relations and Tree Structures with TagSpheres
In: Braz J. et al. (eds) Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. VISIGRAPP 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 693. Springer, Cham.
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S. Jänicke and J. Focht.
Untangling the Social Network of Musicians
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2017.
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S. Jänicke.
On the Impact of the Merseburg Incantations
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2017.
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2016

S. Jänicke.
Close and Distant Reading Visualizations for the Comparative Analysis of Digital Humanities Data
Dissertation.
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S. Jänicke.
Valuable Research for Visualization and Digital Humanities: A Balancing Act
Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, VisWeek, 2016.
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M. F. Cheema, S. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
AnnotateVis: Combining Traditional Close Reading with Visual Text Analysis
Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, VisWeek, 2016.
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S. Jänicke, J. Focht, G. Scheuermann.
Interactive Visual Profiling of Musicians
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 22(1):200–209, Jan 2016.
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S. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
TagSpheres: Visualizing Hierarchical Relations in Tag Clouds
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2016.
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M. F. Cheema, S. Jänicke, J. Blumenstein and G. Scheuermann.
A Directed Concept Search Environment to Visually Explore Texts Related to User-defined Concept Models
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2016.
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S. Jänicke, G. Franzini, M. F. Cheema and G. Scheuermann.
Visual Text Analysis in Digital Humanities.
Computer Graphics Forum, 2016.
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S. Jänicke, T. Efer, J. Blumenstein, E. Wöckener-Gade, C. Schubert and G. Scheuermann.
Über die Nutzung von TagPies zur vergleichenden Analyse von Textdaten
Konferenzabstracts der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum 2016.
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S. Jänicke and D. J. Wrisley.
Visualizing Mouvance: Towards an Alignment of Medieval Vernacular Text Traditions
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2016.
DH Abstract

R. Khulusi and S. Jänicke.
On the Distant Reading of Musicians' Biographies
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2016.
DH Abstract

M.F. Cheema, S. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
Enhancing Close Reading
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2016.
DH Abstract

M. Reckziegel, S. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
CTRaCE: Canonical Text Reader and Citation Exporter
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2016.
DH Abstract

2015

S. Jänicke, T. Efer, M. Büchler and G. Scheuermann.
Designing Close and Distant Reading Visualizations for Text Re-use
Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics - Theory and Applications volume 550 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages 153-171. Springer International Publishing, 2015.
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S. Jänicke, A. Geßner, G. Franzini, M. Terras, S. Mahony and G. Scheuermann.
TRAViz: A Visualization for Variant Graphs
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH).
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S. Jänicke, G. Franzini, M. F. Cheema and G. Scheuermann.
On Close and Distant Reading in Digital Humanities: A Survey and Future Challenges
EuroVis STAR, 2015.
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S. Jänicke, A. Geßner and G. Scheuermann.
A Distant Reading Visualization for Variant Graphs
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2015.
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2014

S. Jänicke, A. Geßner, M. Büchler and G. Scheuermann.
Visualizations for Text Re-use
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2014.
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T. Liebmann, P. Oesterling, S. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
A Geological Metaphor for Geospatial-temporal Data Analysis
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2014.

S. Jänicke, M. Büchler and G. Scheuermann.
Improving the Layout for Text Variant Graphs
Proceedings of the Workshop VisLR: Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources, 2014.
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S. Jänicke and G. Scheuermann.
Utilizing GeoTemCo for Visualizing Environmental Data
Workshop on Visualisation in Environmental Sciences (EnvirVis) (2014), The Eurographics Association.
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S. Jänicke, A. Geßner, M. Büchler and G. Scheuermann.
5 Design Rules for Visualizing Text Variant Graphs
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2014.
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2013

S. Jänicke, C. Heine and G. Scheuermann.
GeoTemCo: Comparative Visualization of Geospatial-Temporal Data with Clutter Removal Based on Dynamic Delaunay Triangulations
Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Application Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 359, 2013, pp 160-175.
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S. Jänicke and D. J. Wrisley.
Visualizing Uncertainty: How to Use the Fuzzy Data of 550 Medieval Texts?
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities 2013.
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2012

S. Jänicke, C. Heine, R. Stockmann and G. Scheuermann.
Comparative Visualization Of Geospatial-Temporal Data
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2012, pages 613−625, Rome, Italy.
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S. Jänicke, R. Stockmann, M. Büchler and G. Scheuermann.
Europeana4D − Visualizing And Exploring Geospatial-Temporal Data
Poster at The Connected Past, Southampton, United Kingdom, 24-25 March 2012.
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2010

S. Jänicke, C. Heine, M. Hellmuth, P. F. Stadler, G. Scheuermann.
Visualization of Graph Products
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE Information Visualization Conference), 16(6), pages 1082-1089. 2010.
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