Sarah Schöttler

Hi, I'm Sarah!

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 am also the Knowledge Director of the Data Visualization Society.

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Publications

Sarah Schöttler, Yalong Yang, Hanspeter Pfister, 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, 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, Benjamin Bach (2019). 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.

Conflict Map: Ukraine

ongoing since March 2022
I am working with researchers at PeaceRep at the University of Edinburgh to develop an interactive map bringing together various datasets that document different aspects of the war in Ukraine.
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PaxVis: Visualizing Peace Agreements

February–May 2019
I 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 2018
In 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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BSc Project: Dot Map Generalization

April–June 2017
For 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 2017
A 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 2016
A 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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