Hereby starting my now-traditional enormous #ieeevis thread, for 2022. First live conference since the before times - somewhat surreal to be in Oklahoma City hotel. Crucial info: substantial hot & cold breakfast available today and all other mornings right outside meeting rooms!
Really thoughtful #ieeevis VDA keynote from @jdfaviz on Scalability with Progressive Data Science.
Call to action: don’t ignore or we’ll be irrelevant!
Good defn of progressive: latency controlled, quality monitored, compute time decided by user according to quality.
Wow, haven’t seen MDSteer in a while, nice to have it in the #ieeevis VDA history discussion :-)
How do people respond to progressive data exploration? 2017 work from Zgraggen says: just fine. More good news on this front from #ieeevis @jdfaviz paper later this week.
Calls to action: need to interoperate! Need new paradigm to address latency and attention managing for exploring data at scale! And need many domains beyond #ieeevis working together to pull that off.
I particularly liked VDS paper on Motif-Based Visual Analysis of Dynamic Network #ieeevis
virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/pape…
arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11932…
Remco Chang in second @VisualDataSci keynote at #ieeevis:
Towards a Unifying Theory of Data, Task, and Visualization with a Grammar of Hypothesis
Argues we're too nice to each other and keep expanding scope of "task" in each paper until it's so broad that we can't operationalize
@VisualDataSci Proposes hypothesis grammar as a way to enumerate all possible statements: that spans hypothesis space.
#ieeevis
I do like this idea of thinking abstractly about high level spaces
#ieeevis
I'm now curious to read the paper, with co-authors @NotAshleySuh Yilan Jiang, Ab Mosca, @sirrice
arxiv.org/abs/2204.14267
Great Q: where does insight fit in - spikes shooting out??
#ieeevis
Aaannd, after long afternoon of #ieeevis tutorial-ing, I emerge once again. Slides at cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/talks.htm…
and videos at virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/even…
Monday morning at #ieeevis with nicely nuanced @cfiesler keynote at BELIV workshop
Data Is People: Research Ethics Beyond Human Subjects
One big message:
Legal != Ethical
Twitter as fruitfly - it's easy for researchers to study!
But "participants" who tweet express shock and concern on how their data is being used
- @cfiesler at #ieeevis @belivworkshop
Publicness is not the only context that matters
Data isn't just data (and not all data is the same)
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
Many examples of studies without ethics approval since not considered human subjects work, but huge impact on and pushback from people in fact affected
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
The difference between posted rules and ethical decisions on collecting data
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
Context matters. Treating these two tweets as the same would be ridiculous, even though they're both about what to eat.
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
Are you thinking about the unintended consequences of your work? Unethical work affects both individuals and society as a whole.
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
New-to-me useful idea:
Ethical debt, analagous to technical debt
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
Hard to imagine harms until they happen to you - part of why positionality matters
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
Operationalizing with guidance: ways to thoughtfully discuss
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
Three questions to keep at top of mind:
- What are potential harms or negative impacts of this research?
- What can I do to mitigate those potential harms?
- Is there benefit to this research, and who does it benefit?
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
Fantastic closing framing:
Critique the things you love
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
Great quote in q&a - CS folks partial to utilitarianism because it's the closest they can get to reducing ethics to math...
- @cfiesler #ieeevis @belivworkshop
In #ieeevis VisComm workshop viscomm.io, The Future of Visualization panel full of luminaries with @alvittao moderating live on the left and @duncangeere, Sheelagh Capendale, @mbostock, @JessicaHullman by zoom
Enjoyable Sheelagh Capendale keynote -- thoughtful (as usual!) -- for #ieeevis @VisGuides on Best Practices Considered Harmful (some of the time)
Guidelines vs Best Practices, nice visual definition
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- Getting the design right, vs getting the right design
- Don't assume goal is generalizability, that implies goal of everybody doing same thing in lockstep
#ieeevis
Powerful representations -- like language and mathematics -- are high cost but high benefit
#ieeevis
Hah - great quote from Sheelagh Capendale:
it is foolish not to learn all existing heuristics, guidelines, best practices,
however,
it is even more foolish to apply them
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Sheelagh favors identifying lessons learnt over prescribing best practices, better able to respect individual variation that way
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Ooh ooh ooh super interesting #ieeevis methodology paper that I gotta read closely:
Supporting Domain Characterization in Visualization Design Studies With the Critical Decision Method
by
Lena Cibulski, @anthi_dimara, Setia Hermawati, Jörn Kohlhammer
hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03775272v1
This brief video was the most intellectually engaging five minutes of my #ieeevis day so far since I'm a total methods geek :-)
virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/pape…
Another interesting #ieeevis @VisGuides paper on questions rather than answers from @acolt & @AlyssaAGoodman, more at 10qviz.org and @10qviz
Yet another #ieeevis @VisGuides paper I absolutely gotta read, Reflections and Considerations on Running Creative Visualization Learning Activities.
Presented by @jcrbrts with total of 14 authors, arising from recent Dagstuhl workshop:
arxiv.org/abs/2209.09807
Also relevant to me!
Analysis Without Data: Teaching Students to Tackle the Vast Challenge
Edward He, Daniel Tolessa, @NotAshleySuh, Remco Chang
drive.google.com/file/d/1BkgkRR…
Considering the Role of Guidelines in Visualization Design Practice.
@drpaulparsons, Prakash Shukla
#ieeevis @VisGuides takedown of positivist "technical rationality" assumptions/fallacies.
Learn from practitioners and researchers!
virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/pape…
osf.io/mw376
Caught only part of #ieeevis @VisInPractice panel on Integrating Research and Products, many fantastic examples where @rkbrath points out places the research conventional wisdom falls short in practice
#ieeevis @VisInPractice panel, @rkbrath on pushing the envelope for scale of event annotation by an order of magnitude
#ieeevis @VisInPractice panel, @rkbrath on when 3D was preferred to 2D
#ieeevis @VisInPractice panel, @rkbrath on getting from rejected to accepted design with subtle tweak - from sunburst to hierarchal pie
#ieeevis @VisInPractice panel, @vsetlur thoughts on industry research
- manage research portfolio with point of view
- prototype to demonstrate idea
- value and time-box productive collabs
- mentors matter
- listen to both body & written language, & write to organize thoughts
#ieeevis @VisInPractice panel, @vsetlur wraps up with pointer to very relevant blog post:
Being an industry research scientist
engineering.tableau.com/being-an-indus…
Tue morning bright and early #ieeevis 2022 plenary welcome session
Good to see a land acknowledgement for the first time at VIS
1322 attendees: 622 live, 478 online, 222 diversity
Fantastic news on Plan S compliance breakthrough!
Cool new #ieeevis thing is AMA sessions, with @EndertAlex @vsetlur @dr_pi
Heroic efforts from tech chairs given many thanks
And also many thanks to the SVs who do so much in a complicated hybrid year
Still new-ish is our code of conduct, an important thing to have in writing
A moment of silence at #ieeevis to celebrate the life and mourn the passing of Lee Wilkinson.
Lee, I miss your encyclopedic knowledge of the literature, your sharp and deep thinking, and most of all your warmth and friendship. Wish you were still with us...
And now, always my very favorite part of #ieeevis - the awards talks
Significant New Researcher Awards to @dalbersszafir and @arvindsatya1, yay!! Two people whose work I greatly admire.
@arvindsatya1 advice to anyone feeling discouraged - take heart, for the road can be long. His #ieeevis road started with a whole lot of paper rejects
#ieeevis dissertation award to Ghulam Jilani Quadri, congrats @jiquad! And to the three honorable mentions, to @flekschas, @thecindyxiong, & @bon_adriel
#ieeevis technical achievement awards to @PascucciValerio and @ShixiaLiu, congratulations!
#ieeevis lifetime achievement award to @ColinWare, I've learned so much from his work!
Citation: For shaping the significance of human perception and cognition in modern visualization through groundbreaking research results and highly influential textbooks
#ieeevis service award to Gautam Chaudhary, who has done so very very much for so many years for our community!
#ieeevis congrats as well to newest members of the Visualization Academy: Natalia Adrienko, Gennady Adrienko, Helwig Hauser, @nathriche, & @PascucciValerio
#ieeevis VAST test of time award to a great paper that I've cited many a time: Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study
by @seankandel @apaepcke @joe_hellerstein & @jeffrey_heer
#ieeevis InfoVis 20 Year Test of Time award to SpaceTree, a paper I've also cited and shown so many times, from Catherine Plaisant, Ben Bederson, and @jessegrosjean
More at cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/…
#ieeevis InfoVis 10 Year Test of Time is for a paper I cite a lot too - and wrote, w/ Michael Sedlmair & @miriah_meyer on Design Study Methodology
We're honored. Thanks most of all to the vis community for doing so much vibrant work with these methods!
cs.ubc.ca/labs/imager/tr…
#ieeevis SciVis 25 Year Test of Time to ROAMing terrain: Real-Time Optimally Adapting Messages by Mark Duchaineau et al
#ieeevis SciVis 15 Year Test of Time to Efficient Computation and Visualization of Coherent Structures in Fluid Flow Application
by
Christoph Garth, Florian Gerhardt, Xavier Tricoche, Hans Hagen
#ieeevis SciVis 14 Year Test of Time
Remarkably funny yet informative talk on
A practical approach to Morse-Smale complex computation: Scalability and generality
from
Attila Gyulassy, on his work with Peer-Timo Bremer, Bernd Hamann, and @PascucciValerio
Declaring tweet bankruptcy for the #ieeevis best papers section, was session chair juggling live humans and discord and slido so no time for Twitter.
Hope to backfill that later on in thread; for now, onwards to keynote!
#ieeevis main keynote from Marti Hearst: Show It or Tell It?
Main takeaway:
Language should need considered co-equal with viz
Informative, thorough, & clear
Hearst #ieeevis keynote
How much text should a chart have?
Where should text go?
What should it say?
Some answers from Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics on different ways to use pictures and words
Hearst #ieeevis keynote: adjusting the dial from no text to minimal text to substantial annotation to all text
Hearst #ieeevis keynote: combining text and visualizations, comparisons as interesting case study
Hearst #ieeevis keynote:
Literacy & reading
"We were never born to read"
- Proust and the Squid
A quote that catapults this book into my to-read list thanks to Marti, ironically enough!
And legibility, w/ snarky slide showing what *not* to do
Hearst #ieeevis keynote:
Another interesting book to hunt down from Mayer
Hearst #ieeevis keynote:
Large language models taking the world by storm - sometimes…
Hearst #ieeevis keynote:
How transformers transform the world right now - and where it can go wrong
Hearst #ieeevis keynote, summary:
- language as the UI for viz
- natural language may be preferred over coding / GUI
- NL methods are improving very rapidly
- drawing the VIS community’s attention to this
Starting #ieeevis Wed morning with a walk through the virtual book table! All books in the AK Peters series from CRC/Routledge, that I co-edit with @AlbertoCairo, are discounted at our virtual bookstore.
#ieeevis
Hot off the presses: Question in Dataviz from @theneilrichards, book-ification of questionsindataviz.com including cover by @AlliTorban
Questions and nuanced answers on when to bend or break the "rules", to go far beyond standard chart types
@theneilrichards @AlliTorban #ieeevis
Countdown: in just a few days will emerge Making with Data, an amazing, beautiful, and thoughtful journey through the world of data physicalization, from dream team of editors @cybunk, @tillnm, Oehlberg & Willet & many authors of all stripes
#ieeevis
Another new book about to emerge is Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data from the inimitable @nigelblue, who thinks seriously about how to avoid being too serious!
#ieeevis
Can't wait for final new book that will ship this calendar year: Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations
arising from the deep expertise of the fabulous @ChristiansenJen
@ChristiansenJen #ieeevis
Our table of course has all books already published in the series, including the recent Mobile Data Visualization from all-star pack of editors @bongshin, @RaimundDachselt, @dr_pi, & @slowalpaca and many more researchers as authors
#ieeevis The jawdropping Data Sketches book-ification from @NadiehBremer and @sxywu continues to bring me inspiration and exhilaration every time I open it!
#ieeevis The visual analytics textbook that finally filled a longstanding gap: Interactive Visual Data Analysis from Tominski & Schumann
#ieeevis The collection on Data-Driven Storytelling comes from another all-star cast of the major players in this ever-more-popular area, including editors @nathriche, @TofHurter, @ndiakopoulos & Carpendale and many chapter authors
#ieeevis Information Theory Tools for Visualization is a deep dive into this research topic
#ieeevis And the first book in the series is my own Visualization Analysis and Design - admittedly I'm biased, but it continues to help me think and help me teach, and many other folks have found it useful as well
#ieeevis But wait there's more! So many upcoming books, awaiting with bated breath:
#ieeevis upcoming book Data Visualization in Excel from @jschwabish - turns out with enough expertise you can make it do the right thing, instead of being shackled to its defaults. Jon will tell you exactly how!
#ieeevis How to show and tell to an audience beyond the usual age range, to kids instead of adults - upcoming book from Nancy Organ will provide some field tested answers!
#ieeevis Also upcoming from @currankelleher will be a textbook on Constructing Visualizations, will be a great teaching resource
Other books in the #ieeevis virtual bookstore are guides to color from @tmrhyne (featured in her tutorial earlier this week virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/even…) and from @stonecolor1, plus even more
We are always looking for more books for the series! We aim to capture what visualization is today in all its variety and diversity, giving voice to researchers, practitioners, designers, and enthusiasts. If you’re a potential author, let’s chat in person at #ieeevis or online
#ieeevis Wed first morning session on Transforming Tabular Data and Grammars had many great papers that I need to read Right Now - including Animated Vega-Lite…
virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/sess…
So many incisive ideas in the #ieeevis Animated Vega-Lite talk!
PSA: Note #ieeevis town hall starting in five minutes in room 4!! virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/room…
Also loved #ieeevis paper from @_mcnutt_ No One Grammar To Rule Them All: A Survey of Static Visualization DSLs
arxiv.org/pdf/2207.07998…
Also gotta read #ieeevis paper on Visualizing the Scripts of Data Wrangling with SOMNUS from Kai Xiong & @yc_wu et al, a topic near and dear to my heart
arxiv.org/pdf/2209.13981…
And absolutely gotta read #ieeevis Rigel paper too, also from @yc_wu et al
shuxinhuan.github.io/pub/rigel.pdf
Also #ieeevis paper HiTailor: Interactive Transformation and Visualization for Hierarchical Tabular Data
An extremely interesting design space and implementation for going beyond flat to hierarchical tables!
arxiv.org/pdf/2208.05821…
#ieeevis town hall, meta session on conference itself including governance, scientific decision making, and operations. First, the VSC, Visualization Steering Committee
#ieeevis VSC initiatives and updates:
Promoting volunteering, short paper policies, election procedures, open practices and plan S breakthroughs
Quick #ieeevis VEC update from Holger Theisel
Update from current TVCG editor in chief Klaus Mueller, integration between #ieeevis and TVCG is going very strong, with many authors choosing to present their papers at VIS: 70 this year in addition to the 120 accepted by VIS itself, a new record. (My own group has 2 of them!)
#ieeevis Area Curation Committee now chaired by @LaidlawDavid with prelim analysis of this year’s data, I’m looking forward to reading their annual report for more details
#ieeevis 2023 will be in Melbourne Australia! Pathways getting involved presented by @immersivecola
#ieeevis open access/science chair @lonnibesancon about great progress in open access but lots left to do for open data and materials
#ieeevis open access: long term goals, template updates so canonical place to put supplemental materials url outside of precious 9-page space (OMG YAY!!!!!!!!!), survey re supplemental materials where ideas from non-quant especially solicited
c.dunne.dev/vis-op-survey
Lovely #ieeevis work from @benjbach et al on Dashboard Design Patterns. As I’ve come to expect from him, thoughtful content beautifully and thoroughly presented. 23 patterns hierarchically grouped into content vs composition, & 7 genres. Much more at
dashboarddesignpatterns.github.io
#ieeevis short papers session - systems & networks, two of my fave things! virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/sess…
VegaFusion: Automatic Server-Side Scaling for Interactive Vega Visualizations, from @nicolaskruchten Jon Mease & @domoritz
Impressive performance in demo! vegafusion.io
Extremely useful #ieeevis short paper by @leibatt & 6 former ugrads from her Maryland group:
Streamlining Visualization Authoring in D3 Through User-Driven Templates, great talk from @hannah_bako
Must read & absorb & ponder how to improve my teaching materials accordingly!
A few more choice bits of @hannah_bako #ieeevis talk on D3 templates, repo available at osf.io/k58bp/
Another gasp-inducing demo of scalability in this #ieeevis session: Plotly-Resampler: Effective Visual Analytics for Large Time Series by @kerstmanpoeper et al
Code & demo at github.com/predict-idlab
Paper at
arxiv.org/abs/2206.08703
Plotly resampler #ieeevis short paper - a few key rationale and framing slides from @kerstmanpoeper
Explaining Website Reliability by Visualizing Hyperlink Connectivity
anti-misinformation meets network vis work at #ieeevis from @SeongminLeee @PoloChau et al
MisVis demo at poloclub.github.io/MisVis/
Really enjoyed #ieeevis talk on Paths through Spatial Networks by @agodwinappears - who is looking to hire a postdoc btw
virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/pape…
Particularly liked this mini-masterclass-in-four-acts on how to present related work well from in @agodwinappears #ieeevis talk, will walk through it with my research group!
The @agodwinappears #ieeevis talk covered crisply designed solution to networks-meet-spatial problem
Having some ML for breakfast Thu morning at #ieeevis!
arxiv.org/pdf/2012.00467…
from @WangQianwenToo @ZhutianChen @jiayouwyhit & Huamin Qu
Full interactive explorer for faceted browsing of the ~100 papers surveyed at
ml4vis.github.io
Graphs and Networks #ieeevis session starts with MosaicSets from
Rottman et al
demo at www2.geoinfo.uni-bonn.de/html/mosaicSet…
Next up at #ieeevis session is Taurus, argues for one force directed approach to rule them all.
Mingliang Xue, Zhi Wang, Fahai Zhong, @jiayouwyhit , Mingliang Xu, @OliverDeussen, @viswang
#ieeevis moment in the sun for our TVCG paper
Visualizing Graph Neural Networks with CorGIE: Corresponding a Graph to Its Embedding
from Zipeng Liu, Yang Wang, @bernard_juergen & me
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2106.12839
Code: github.com/zipengliu/corg…
Demo: corgie.site
@bernard_juergen #ieeevis CorGIE lets you the question of "are we there yet?" when training graph neural networks. Does embedding really reflect k-hop neighborhoods in the input graph??
Key idea: correspondences between 3 abstract data subspaces: topology, latent, & feature space
@bernard_juergen #ieeevis CorGIE features carefully linked views to show the correspondences between latent, feature, & topology spaces.
First author Zipeng Liu is now asst prof at Beihang, even more at zipengliu.github.io
Up next: #ieeevis presentation of our TVCG paper on data recon for genomics domain!
GEViTRec: Data Reconnaissance Through Recommendation Using a Domain-Specific Visualization Prevalence Design Space
from @amcrisan, Shannah Fisher, @jennifergardy and me
cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/…
@amcrisan @jennifergardy #ieeevis
The GEViTRec algorithm automatically produces visually coherent chart combinations, following up on our call for data reconnaissance
amcrisan.github.io/assets/files/p…
@amcrisan @jennifergardy #ieeevis
The GEVitRec paper introduces recommendation with a domain prevalence design space - guidance based on a systematic review in a particular area. Our specific example is built atop our previous deep dive into genomic epidemiology, GEViT
doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…
Another #ieeevis paper from the UBC InfoVis group was presented at the Monday @VisWkshp by Mara Solen
Scoping the Future of Visualization Literacy: A Review
PDF at osf.io/eypgm/
I saw their definition quoted this very same week in somebody else's slides, quick impact!
Continuing the thread by backfilling all kinds of stuff, I fell far behind on the livetweeting.
So lurching on with undead- tweeting, #ieeevis isn't over yet :-)
A few of the things that caught my eye at the Wed #ieeeevis posters, from @PoloChau @agodwinappears
More intriguing #ieeevis posters
@_Laura_Garrison @lynbartram @jdfaviz
Very nice talk on GenoRec by
@aaditeya on work w/ @sehi_lyi @WangQianwenToo @michelle_borkin & @ngehlenborg
Topic near to my heart! Want to read soon to fully grok where it converges vs diverges from GEViTRec. PDF at
osf.io/rscb4/
Molecumentary - scalable/automatic documentaries about molecules - very cool #ieeevis paper from @dr_floh et al!
hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03451509/
Polyphony - genomics vis meets ML - yet another interesting #ieeevis paper from Nils et al! From Furui Cheung, @keller__mark, Huamin Qu,
@ngehlenborg @WangQianwenToo
This #ieeevis @VIS_VISUS paper definitely of interest, finally a followup to classic Ghoniem @jdfaviz paper!
Comparative Evaluation of Bipartite, Node-Link, and Matrix-Based Network Representations
Full site w/ paper, supp mat, study materials & code
abdelamz.com/BPLandingWebpa…
#ieeevis excited to read:
Understanding Barriers to Network Exploration with Visualization: A Report from the Trenches
From @mabushyQ @jdfaviz @benjbach @uta_ente & more
Data sources include year of logs from vistorian.net & 6-week course!
hal.inria.fr/hal-03738500/d…
At #ieeevis OU open house, saw cool digital humanities project copticscriptorium.org from @ctschroeder.
Lots of work from Chris Weaver’s group: comic techniques for motion vis, and happy to see Improvise ideas revived in D3 omkarchekuri.github.io/research/C4D3/…
Highlight of #ieeevis OU open house was the once-in-a-lifetime walkthrough of selected books from the History of Science Collection archives, taken out of climate controlled vaults for one night, just for us, by curator and capstone speaker @kvmagruder !
More gems from the archives at the #ieeevis OU open house, in some cases only a handful of these books still exist anywhere in the world. Seeing these physical artifacts in person was a privilege and pleasure.
Fri morning #ieeevis panel on meta-issue of reviewing was great!
Is This (Panel) Good Enough for IEEE VIS?
Cody, Alex, Torsten, Alvitta, Melanie, Petra, Tobias, & Bob
@codydunne @alexander_lex @VisTorsten @alvittao @vizstudylady @dr_pi @dr_floh
sites.google.com/view/goodenoug…
Bob Laramee kicks off Fri #ieeevis panel noting collected resources at sites.google.com/view/visres
#ieeevis Reviewing panel: @codydunne on Incentivizing open science. These very slides are archived for posterity at
osf.io/mfk5z/
Motivating context: walkthrough of his previous paper (network motifs) years later showed how much crucial info lost!
@codydunne: #ieeevis can & should do better with open science. We’re better with preprints, but so much more to do with the rest. Do it when you submit, not “later”!
@codydunne: #ieeevis could use both carrots (badges) vs sticks (requirements). Start with baby steps - encourage & support.
Me: Whew. I’m all for carrots but be very very careful about sticks. Done wrong could be harmful gatekeeping!
#ieeevis panel continues with @alexander_lex. Calls for introducing structured mechanisms of critique that support factual criticism without personal attacks. i agree there’s an unmet need for these!
@alexander_lex argues for open publishing #ieeevis reviews, but leaving them anonymous. Me: yup, I could imagine that change being beneficial to the field.
I think signed open reviews would be a step too far for our current culture.
But I disagree with @alexander_lex on #ieeevis reviewing: we should not move to mandatory double blind reviewing. The current policy of letting authors choose single or double blind is better. Agree pre-prints must be allowed but authors should not be muzzled in discussing them!
The more a tool really is adopted by a user community the harder it would be to anonymize. #ieeevis needs more real-world deployment and open-source code, not less. If we raise further hurdles by requiring even more effort, the incentives would be completely backwards!
Back to agreeing with @alexander_lex : leave #ieeevis deadline as is. TVCG journal option is great & heavily used; anything further world likely hurt other vibrant events.
Agree w/ @VisTorsten that reviewing is hard. I note #ieeevis community does remarkably thorough and thoughtful reviewing compared to others that I've experienced. I want to preserve that intellectual culture, I ponder how to add opportunities for training next generation.
But disagree w/ @VisTorsten on what conclusions #ieeevis should draw from 2021 NeurIPS14 Revisited paper. The outcome of those deeply thoughtful reviews is papers are typically reworked and substantially improved before resubmitting. This analysis implicitly ignores that key fact
I'm not convinced #ieeevis should increase shepherding, think better to leave that for direct-to-journal TVCG submissions, time frame works better. Would love flexibility to bump up AR but that would require TVCG buy-in which I deem highly unlikely. Disagree w/ @VisTorsten here
I don't like idea of global collapsing of venues, seems too lockstep - think there's value in diverse ecosystem where #ieeevis is one of several players.
Open reviews would be one pathway to training. But if only for accepted, junior people's perspective still skewed
Agree w/@alvittao on importance of publishing null results. Registered reports would be one cool avenue, but probably a better fit with journal like TVCG than conference like #ieeevis
Compelling arguments on intellectual & disciplinary diversity for papers at #ieeevis from @vizstudylady (now of Northeastern, having left Tableau) with greatest metaphor ever...
Perfect & perfectly cute @vizstudylady metaphor:
Considering only purebred dogs vs hybrids & mutts as pets :: #ieeevis papers must fit predetermined types vs hybrids that might be great.
Goal is best of both worlds
I'm the person who originally introduced paper types in 2003 -- but also one of those who championed the finer granularity contribution types now in the current #ieeevis CFP.
As with all guidance, what starts as path through wilderness can later become straitjacket
Advice in #ieeevis panel from @vizstudylady: avoid rigid types and rules
I really like #ieeevis panel inclusivity final words from @vizstudylady :
- embrace and celebrate unfamiliar approaches & contributions
- treat paper types & guidelines as examples in a sea of possibilities
- focus on whether a paper contributes something of value
On #ieeevis panel Discord I brought up paper about recent AAAI paper reviewing,
Matching Papers and Reviewers at Large Conferences, arxiv.org/abs/2202.12273
They introduced two phase reviewing to target reviewer workload at the grey zone in the middle instead of bottom
Their detailed analysis shows under 3% of the papers rejected in first phase would have made it through second phase.
Their scale is way bigger than #ieeevis, 10K submissions. Model immediately caught on and is now used in other ML conferences as well.
Absolutely loved #ieeevis capstone from @kvmagruder on Thinking Visually in the History of Science
He situated work within interesting ternary coordinate system:
naturalistic vs evidential vs didactic
#ieeevis capstone: @kvmagruder notes central role of artistic training in Galileo discoveries, his explicit choices of didactic book illustrations vs naturalistic log drawings - in contrast to later evidential drawings painstakingly compiled by Hevelius
Aha, #ieeevis capstone from @kvmagruder had some interesting visual representations of tree / hierarchy data going way way back.
Captivating talk that I can't begin to summarize - @kvmagruder rose to the occasion to deliver one of my top three favorite #ieeevis capstones in 30 years! An hour of your time to watch video would be well spent, it's now posted at
Many thanks to #ieeevis general chairs @hen_str @dalbersszafir & David Ebert for a great hybrid event: about half onsite and half remote for the 1350+ attendees. From my in person POV, remote folks presenting worked well and felt nicely integrated
Thanks to all zillion #ieeevis volunteers including the indefatigable tech chair Alexander Bock and the indispensable Josh Levine!
I really appreciated the care taken by all at #ieeevis for pandemic control measures: near-universal indoor masking, the outdoor terrace for safer coffee breaks, covid tests at registration desk. I heard of only two cases, in contrast to so many other superspreader conferences!
Backfilling: check out citations for #ieeevis Best Paper session, plus list of Honorable Mentions, at
ieeevis.org/year/2022/info…
So much strong work!
Also backfill from the other session I chaired: if you teach visualization, check out the papers in #ieeevis CG&A session on Visualization Teaching and Literacy virtual.ieeevis.org/year/2022/sess…
More on our GEViTRec TVCG paper presented at #ieeevis - @amcrisan now has a lovely post walking through the ideas in it on Tableau Engineering blog!
I enjoyed the #ieeevis highlights writeup from @nicolaskruchten
A quote from me plus several other #ieeevis highlights in this thread
This thread was an idiosyncratic & partial view of what happened at this year's #ieeevis - so many parallel sessions missed, so much left to read/see!
A fitting end for the journey is @altVISworkshop meditation from @jwoLondon,
Beyond the Walled Garden
altvis.github.io/#walled-garden
PS Icing on the #ieeevis cake was Fri afternoon field trip to awesome Oklahoma City Museum of Osteology w/ @Birdbassador & @laneharrison
skeletonmuseum.com
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