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. Prior to this, I completed an MSc in Design Informatics (2019) at the University of Edinburgh, and a BSc in Technology and Liberal Arts & Sciences (2017) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Next to my research, I teach workshops and short courses on programming, visualization, and other digital skills as a CDCS Training Fellow. I also occasionally design and develop interactive maps and visualizations.
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). Demo Website
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
An overview of my map and visualization design and development work.