Thread by @tamaramunzner

Félicitations to Jean-Daniel Fekete on the #ieeevis #vgtc technical achievement award! I always love award talks showcasing career highlights and great collaborators, this one is no exception.

Félicitations to Catherine Plaisant on the #ieeevis #vgtc career award! Another lovely retrospective talk.

So very delighted that the Polaris paper from Chris Stolte, Pat Hanrahan, and Diane Tang -- which led directly to @tableau -- won the #ieeevis #infovis 20 year Test of Time award. Seeing it grow over the weeks and months was a great part of my Stanford years.

The #ieeevis #infovis 10 year Test of Time award to Edward Segal and @jeffrey_heer, on Narrative Visualization, another great one!

The #ieeevis #scivis 25 year Test of Time to Allen Martin and Matt Ward for High Dimensional Brushing for Interactive Exploration of Multivariate Data, davis.wpi.edu/~xmdv/docs/vis…

So many of us missing Matt, his memory remains a blessing and his work remains an inspiration.

The #ieeevis #scivis 15 year Test of Time award to Jarke van Wijk for The Value of Vis, yet again another fantastic paper that holds up so well.
Linking to the followup journal paper that adds even more, Views on Visualization
win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/vov_t…

Much #ieeevis discord discussion of his acceptance talk point of how liberating it was that he assumed it would be rejected
- less self-censoring,
- think freely and deeply. paper acceptance is secondary
- PC: let's not reject deeply thought through opinion papers

Speaking of discord, that's where a huge amount of #ieeevis back and forth is this year, leading to much more sparse twitter this year. Mixed feelings - far richer and more realtime since much larger fraction of community is participating, less of a footprint for those not there.

Whew. So much happened last week, with the #ieeevis firehose of livestreams and discord and post-live catchup for parallel stuff.

Linear time is passé - giving up on per-day summaries, but continuing with my (only partial) view of cool stuff

Finale Doshi-Velez keynote of #ieeevis visualdatascience.org

Interpretability and Human Validation of Machine Learning


- Feature-based explanations not the way to go, people just assume correct
- Don't just say X is important, have to say by how much

Then from @amcrisan at #ieevis #vds:

Passing the Data Baton: A Retrospective Analysis on Data Science Work and Workers

Talk
Paper doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2…

Looks super useful, must read for me

@amcrisan Nugget from @amcrisan #ieevis Data Baton paper

9 data scientist roles:
- prep: steward, shaper
- analysis: generalist, research scientist, technical analyst, moonlighter
- deployment: data engineer, ML/AI engineer
- communication: evangelist.

So many gems in @VisInPractice #ieeevis session, see visinpractice.github.io

Alan Wilson on
More than a Style Guide: Data Visualization for Design Systems


deep and thoughtful dive into bridging from research into practice (as the name suggests)

@VisInPractice #ieeevis #vip
@alangwilson covered questions I've also grappled with: explicit / prescriptive guidance vs foundational concepts. Design guides go more for the former, my own textbook goes more for the latter. He usefully frames it as a continuum.

@VisInPractice Utterly fantastic #ieeevis #vip talk from @juliasilge on
Data visualization for machine learning practitioners


She unpacks a subject I cover poorly in a dorky 90 seconds of intro in my own talks into 15 minutes of richness and depth.

@VisInPractice @juliasilge Her #ieeevis talk expands on when and how vis is used in ML, distinguishing exploratory data analysis and model evaluation as two key and different points.

And was my intro to fabulous "ML is like a deep fryer" metaphor. See idlewords.com/talks/deep_fri…

#ieeevis #vip another great talk from Jes Ford on

Machine Learning for Medicine: visualizations that accelerate drug discovery


Ooh, datasets for studying batch effects - phenomenon that makes my blood run cold. And lots more:

Then #ieeevis #vip talk on freelancing from Jane Zhang & panel with her and @KristinHenry & @currankelleher.

Curran ends w/ plea to researchers: need more very rapid prototyping tools! Still uses Voyager as intro playground on every project

Still to backfill from #ieeevis Monday: Visualization Psychology, sites.google.com/view/vispsych/

I'm only partway thru Barbara Tversky's truly spectacular keynote on How Graphics Communicate


Can't just watch in background since I keep stopping to take notes!

Back to #ieeevis Tue!
InfoVis best paper
Visual Reasoning Strategies for Effect Size Judgments and Decisions
arxiv.org/abs/2007.14516
from @AlexKale17 @mjskay @JessicaHullman
Tour de force, including this linkage of text and visuals - manually created (oof)!

#ieeevis
SciVis best paper vcg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/o…
Objective Observer-Relative Flow Visualization in
Curved Spaces for Unsteady 2D Geophysical Flows

is truly beautiful transfer of ideas from differential geometry, to create derived attribute/feature that viewers need

#ieeevis discord lit up when fantastic video played:


Better than what's possible in person! High production values not just glitz (although pretty damn cool to sneak behind arrows etc), really helped make material more comprehensible

#ieeevis keynote from Mario Capecchi was far outside vis but interesting story of medicine/bio Nobel work + meta-commentary on process of science. And gut-wrenching story of childhood lived on street after mother sent to Dachau (& amazingly later reunited)

#ieeevis session on systems/libraries paper on
Kyrix-S: Authoring Scalable Scatterplot Visualizations of Big Data from @leibatt et al pointed me to Kyrix project, dsail.csail.mit.edu/index.php/kyri…

Very happy to see zoomable interfaces revived for the modern era!

Another #ieeevis standout paper for me was

SplitStreams: A Visual Metaphor for Evolving Hierarchies from
Fabian Bolte
@MahsanNourani
Eric Ragan
@SBrucknerVis



I like both the analysis and the exposition in the video.

@MahsanNourani @SBrucknerVis #ieeevis
I am always grabbed by papers that synthesize some higher-level way of thinking about things that elegantly unify previously separate ideas. SplitStreams is one of them.
It's like the treemap/streamgraph version of microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Splendid #ieeevis discovery!

@jamesscottbrown made a more easily searchable list of the old VIS videos from 2013-2019! Open source so easy to build on and modify.
jamesscottbrown.github.io/vis-videos/ind…

A modern overlay could make this content for more useful than vimeo.com/channels/721847

Great #ieeevis session on guidelines and design spaces.

LineSmooth work from Rosen & Quadri: within-paper integration of scivis-style mathematical sophistication with infovis-style task analysis. arxiv.org/abs/2007.13882

Between papers saw nice breadth in session. #reVISe FTW!

Truly wonderful #ieeevis video talk from @accidental_PhD on Guidelines For Pursuing and Revealing Data Abstractions
that felt like PBS science show!



Very strong work - I loved framing of 'latent data abstractions', and abstractions as interventions

Also appreciated able session chairing from @codydunne, helping evolve #ieeevis norms in discord to keep stream readable instead of flooded with individual claps. I stole many ideas from him when I chaired later in the week.

A Simple Pipeline for Coherent Grid Maps by Meulemans, Sondag, & Speckmann.


A fave genre: expert intuitions crisped up into explicit criteria & embodied in carefully designed algorithm w/ deep knowledge of prior work both in & out of #ieeevis

Great #ieeevis panel on The Role of Vis and Data Researchers During a Public Health Crisis


wranglers: @scheidegger & @arvindsatya1
participants: @amcrian @ngehlenborg
@JessicaHullman @Birdbassador

So much good stuff that I can't summarize, just watch it!

Cool spectrum of methods in #ieeevis session on Theory that I chaired: from qual research for humanities & argumentation to methodology advice from vision science to VR for visceralization to systematic review of DB lit to next-level design studies

virtual.ieeevis.org/session_f-pape…

Why Visualize? Untangling a Large Network of Arguments
z.dbvis.de/whyvis/

led to vibrant discussion on precision and faithfulness vs ambiguity and vagueness on #ieeevis discord, with @jsndyks pointing us to Fisher's geos.ed.ac.uk/~gisteac/gis_b…

Layers of Meaning from @HLMQA et al on humanistic response to viz:
"Ugly tools are untrustworthy; Commercial tools are inadequate"

How to be just scruffy enough - like artfully touseled hair that seems windblown, but actually took a half hour to get just right?
#ieeevis

Data Visceralization: Enabling Deeper Understanding of Data Using VR
#ieeevis BP hon mention from Lee,
@bongshin @TofHurter, Drucker @immersivecola

discussion:
Presence = you being there with the data; Visceralisation = you being in the data; Embodiment = you being the data;

So so many levels of meta & methods in #ieeevis paper/talk

Insights From Experiments with Rigor in an EvoBio Design Study
Rogers, Patton, Harmon, @miriah_meyer @alexander_lex

Audit trails for research artifacts
vdl.sci.utah.edu/trrrace/

& DS itself at vdl.sci.utah.edu/Trevo/

@miriah_meyer @alexander_lex There's a paper-within-paper structure in the writing, with design study embedded within methods paper. But wait, there's more! A talk-within-talk moment that made me & the technician & every #ieeevis watcher jump out of their skin. You gotta watch video:

A Design Space of Vision Science Methods for Visualization Research
@MadisonAElliott, Nothelfer, @thecindyxiong, @dalbersszafir
arxiv.org/abs/2009.06855
is a rich trove of methods advice for #ieeevis authors. And can't wait for book!

https://twitter.com/visxvision/status/1323326905362403329

A Structured Review of Data Management Technology for Interactive Visualization and Analysis

Super useful synthesis and pointers bridging #ieeevis to the DB world
from @leibatt & @scheidegger

w/ live repo at github.com/hdc-arizona/db…

Thoughtful and great capstone from Sheelagh Carpendale, true trailblazer of qualitative methodology at #ieeevis:

Data Vis for Empowerment and Inclusion

Taking a minute to toot our own #ieeevis horn:

VizCommender: Computing Text-Based Similarity in Visualization Repositories for Content-Based Recommendations
cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/…

from @oppermann_m & Robert Kincaid of @tableau

Preview:

Another #ieeevis paper from us:

Table Scraps: An Actionable Framework for Multi-Table DataWrangling From An Artifact Study of Computational Journalism.
from @stevekasica & @cberret & me
cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/…

Preview:

Finally, let me re-up and link up my thread about the CRC Press virtual book table to this one, so that most of my #ieeevis stuff is findable in one spot

https://twitter.com/tamaramunzner/status/1320744746210316288?s=20