Alexander Rind
Researcher at USTP – University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten
St. Pölten, Lower Austria
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Top SchoolAlexander Rind is a visualization and visual analytics researcher with 14+ years of experience, currently leading time-oriented data research at FH St. Pölten and pursuing a PhD at TU Wien. He bridges theory and practice by supervising student projects, teaching information visualization across Austrian universities, and applying InfoVis methods to healthcare and business data. His work on the FWF-funded KAVA-Time and prior projects like HypoVis and VisuExplore emphasizes interaction design and knowledge-assisted analysis for temporal datasets. An experienced open-source contributor, he has maintained and improved the well-known Prefuse visualization library with focused bug fixes and usability repairs. Colleagues value him for translating complex visualization concepts into tools and curricula that support real-world decision-making.
15 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, Informatik, Erasmus, Informatik at Lund University
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Github Skills (13)
data-visualizations10
javas10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
java10
graph6
e-mail6
xml6
visualization6
user-interface6
graphml6
jsp6
prefuse6
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.
animationdata-modelingdata-structuredata-structuresdata-visualization
audio-visual-analytics/audio-visual-analytics.github.io
May 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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