Available for teaching, workshops & select consulting

Cambridge, MA · Newport, RI · Saint-Tropez, FR · Remote / Onsite
Gerry Benoît Professor · Author · Builder
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Information · meaning · people

Turn information
into understanding.

Gerry Benoît, Ph.D.—a professor, author, systems analyst, and web designer working across data, visualization, retrieval, and digital storytelling.

Discuss a role or project Explore the work

Teaching the theory. Building the tools. Asking what the data means.


Drop me a note by email via Harvard 📧, Berkeley 📧 or Bix 📧.

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What brings you here?

01

I’m looking for a professor

Temporary appointments, visiting roles, workshops, and talks.

Teaching & availability → 02

I need a collaborator

Research, information systems, visualization, and analysis.

Ways to work together → 03

I’m a student

Lecture notes, exercises, slides, and learning resources.

Open the learning shelf ↗ 04

I’m here to explore

Travel, rare books, languages, the sea, and useful experiments.

Enter the curious wing →

Selected work

A practice built around meaning.

Scholarship, software, and stories belong on the same shelf.

Gerald Benoît

Introduction to
Information
Visualization

Transforming data into meaningful information

AUTHORSHIP · TEACHING · DESIGN

Book + open companion

Information Visualization

A book and living resource about the art, science, ethics, and practice of communicating data—complete with lectures, exercises, slides, and demonstrations.

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02 / SYSTEMS

Teaching Resources + Code Projects

DocHub

A home for student resources & tools that convert, organize, search, and display documents—designed to make collections genuinely usable.

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Teaching & learning

Technical depth, translated into human terms.

Good teaching bridges theory and practice without pretending either is simple. My classrooms connect computing, ethics, aesthetics, and the real situations in which people use information.

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01 Teaching & curricula

Data science, information visualization, programming, relational databases, statistics, research methods, and philosophy of information—from undergraduate to doctoral study.

02 Research & writing

Information retrieval, linguistic register, communicative action, data ethics, visualization, and the design of systems that respect their users.

03 Workshops & talks

Focused sessions for universities, libraries, museums, archives, and organizations that want to understand—or rethink—their data and digital practice.

04 Web Design

Front-end design, back-end sophistication - for standalone applications, business data integration, increasing your web presence for individuals, businesses, non-profits.

05 Programming Projects

For proofs-of-concept, fitting in that missing piece.
[Posting soon.]

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Work together

Bring in an outside pair of eyes.

I help institutions examine their information, workflows, and digital presence—then connect the conceptual problem to something people can actually use.

  • Visiting or temporary teaching appointments
  • Systems and information analysis
  • Data visualization and digital storytelling
  • Libraries, museums, archives, and education
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Field notes

A life beyond the CV.

Travel and foreign languages. Rare books and writing systems. Baroque music, boxing, calligraphy, graphic arts—and nearly anything nautical. These aren’t detours from the work; they’re where much of the noticing begins.

“Curiosity is not a lack of focus. It’s the thread that holds the work together.”
https://bix.digital/travel/france2023/index.html Read the 2024 Côte d’Azur field notes    2025 [The Var] field notes 2026 Italy adventures

About Gerry

Thirty-plus years between ideas and implementation.

My work has crossed universities, cultural institutions, consulting, programming, graphic design, and data science. The common question is always the same: how can information become more meaningful to the people who need it?

Academic CV [Coming soon] Flipbook archive Email Gerry