The idea behind all this food is to make sure that your audience is happy and a little bit sleepy, so they don't act too mean toward you.

At the end of her presentation, Jill takes some questions from her audience, the backdrop being one of the large dataset visualizations of the smoke plumes in California from October of 2003.

Two hours later (well, and three years of work, but who's counting), Jill and her committee celebrate the new doctor in the house with a couple of bottles of French champagne!