Alexander Rind
Researcher at USTP – University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten
St. Pölten, Lower Austria
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Top SchoolAlexander Rind is a research-focused visualization scientist based in St. Pölten, Austria, currently a researcher at Fachhochschule St. Pölten. He leads basic and applied research in information visualization and visual analytics and teaches visualization and analytics at FH St. Pölten and FH OÖ in Hagenberg. He is pursuing doctoral studies on interaction in information visualization of time-oriented data at Vienna University of Technology. His interests span visualization, visual analytics, science of interaction, and time-oriented data, with applications in medical settings and business data. An active open-source contributor, he worked on Prefuse as a software developer, focusing on bug fixes, tooltip behavior, and layout issues. With around 14 years of experience and a background that includes TU Wien, Lund University, and the UKVAC Visual Analytics Summer School, he combines theoretical depth with practical research impact.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyUKVAC Visual Analytics Summer School, UKVAC Visual Analytics Summer School at Middlesex UniversityErasmus, Erasmus at Lund University
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Github Skills (15)
data-visualizations10
javas10
debug10
data-visualization10
maintenance10
data-visualisation10
java10
graph6
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xml6
visualization6
user-interface6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
prefuse/Prefuse
Dec 2011 - Jul 2019
Prefuse is a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations in the Java programming language. Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation, dynamic queries, integrated search, and database connectivity.
Role in this project:
Software Developer (focused on bug fixes and maintenance)
Software Developer (focused on bug fixes and maintenance)Contributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements within the prefuse visualization library. Their contributions include correcting typos, resolving issues with tooltip behavior, and fixing incorrect range mappings for numerical values. Additionally, the user addressed problems related to the ordinal axis layout and cascaded table column handling. They also made a minor contribution by replacing non-ASCII characters in comments.
software-toolsdatabase-connectivityvisualizationsprogramming-languagetrees
fhstp/easybiograph
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
biographical time bars for social work
Contributions:7 releases, 6 reviews, 37 PRs in 2 years 2 months
reactsocial-workbiographybarsvisualization
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