Hi, I'm Sarah! (she/her)
I'm a PhD candidate supervised by Benjamin Bach and Uta Hinrichs in the Visual+Interactive Data group at the University of Edinburgh, researching responsive geographic visualization—how to make maps, cartograms and other geographic visualizations work across devices and screen sizes. I have an MSc in Design Informatics (2019), also from the University of Edinburgh, and a BSc in Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences (2017) from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. I wad previously the Knowledge Director of the Data Visualization Society (2021-2022). I have also worked as a map/visualization designer and developer on several projects.
Publications
Wenchao Li, Sarah Schöttler, James Scott-Brown, Yun Wang, Siming Chen, Huamin Qu, and Benjamin Bach. NetworkNarratives: Data Tours for Visual Network Exploration and Analysis. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23).
Sarah Schöttler, Yalong Yang, Hanspeter Pfister, and Benjamin Bach. Visualizing and Interacting with Geospatial Networks: A Survey and Design Space. Computer Graphics Forum, 40: 5-33 (2021). Project website ↗ | Conference Talk (EuroVis 2021) ↗
Arran Ridley, Sarah Schöttler, Aba-Sah Dadzie, and Benjamin Bach. The VisTools Marketplace: An Activity to Understand the Landscape of Visualisation Tools. Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE VIS Workshop on Data Vis Activities to Facilitate Learning, Reflecting, Discussing, and Designing (2020).
Sarah Schöttler, Tobias Kauer, and Benjamin Bach. Geographic Network Visualization Techniques: A Work-In-Progress Taxonomy. Poster at Graph Drawing (2019). Project website ↗
Visualization Development & Other Projects
An overview of my map and visualization design and development work. I share smaller visualizations and experiments on Observable.
PaxVis: Visualizing Peace Agreements
February–May 2019I created an interactive interface for the PA-X database, which contains data on over 1500 peace agreements.
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Inequality in NHS Health and Care Experience
November–December 2018In a group project for my MSc in Design Informatics, we created a visualization of inequalities in Scottish healthcare experiences, based on survey data published by the Scottish government.
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Dot Map Generalization (BSc Project)
April–June 2017For my Bachelor project, I developed an algorithm to generalize dot maps with the goal of making web-based marker maps more readable.
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ATLAS Semester Abroad Database
February–July 2017A D3-based web application for viewing the ATLAS Semester Abroad Database, a collection of students' experiences at universities abroad. (Not publicly accessible)
Solar System Simulation
July 2016A simulation of the Earth's orbit around the sun, based on (extremely simplified) physics. Tinker with the variables and the Earth will fly into the sun (or outer space...)
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