SCI faculty members Amir Arzani, Kate Isaacs (@kisaacs.bsky.social), and Bei Wang Phillips recently received a prestigious national honor: the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Congrats to these rising stars! 🌟 #PECASE @utah.edu

Speaking of Bergen, ever considered moving to Norway? We have a job opening for a Tenured Associate or full Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization 📊! I can add that as a tenured associate professor there is a clear path towards promotion to full professor. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

👇 We're building something new... 👇

Check out the full video from our #SC24 Art of HPC submission showing cancer cell transport. Did you check out the mini-art exhibit at the conference? I thought it was a fun new addition.

The 2025 SciVis Contest Data is available! If you/your team/your students are looking for an exciting visualization challenge (it's about helping scientists develop new, sustainable materials), take a look at the contest data: sciviscontest2025.github.io #Visualization #IEEEVIS #SciVis #Contest

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

The Art of HPC at #SC24 houses all kinds of art and data visualizations this year. Come see in B301! "What's going on in there?" by @cscullyallison.bsky.social , Kevin Menear, & Dmitry Duplyakin delightfully displays the kinds of science being computed on Kestrel.

NASA’s Nicky Fox is presenting an enchanting plenary for #SC24. The high-impact applications she’s highlighting from Earth’s weather to aerodynamics to #CFD to medicine to space flight to space weather and more all depend on 🧪 and #HPC!

Yesterday at ProTools, Shilpika from Argonne presented their system for finding patterns in regularly sampled data about their machines, too much to store without this kind of analysis along the way, including machine visualizations in Jupyter to examine. What more HPC vis will today bring? #SC24

Halfway to my full set of 6 platonic solids by way of the Utah booth at #SC24 thanks to the cool folks at CHPC.

I am recruiting a postdoc! The research emphasis is participatory design for decision-making interfaces. Check out the two project descriptions on my website. people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalea/prosp... The position is through UChicago’s Data Science Institute. datascience.uchicago.edu/research/pos...

Here is the ARXIV link to the paper if anyone is interested in reading it in full. arxiv.org/abs/2205.04557 Also, please reach out to me if you have any questions about the work, I’d love to chat.

UpSet won the #ieeevis InfoVis 10-year test of time award 🎉. Thanks to @ngehlenborg.bsky.social @henstr.bsky.social Romain Vuillemot, and Hanspeter Pfister for being an awesome team to work with on this. I wrote up my reflections on what made UpSet successful: vdl.sci.utah.edu/blog/2024/10...

I was super excited to present my work on vis and preference elicitation for participatory budgeting yesterday at IEEE VIS. arxiv.org/abs/2407.20103 Lots more work to do in public-facing vis applications and collective decision-making!

Too many computing problems to vis, not enough time!

 Thursday #ieeevis, fourth session, *Computer Architecture* Prof. Yifan Sun presents a domain-expert led design study!

 Three chip experts, with some help from me, designed an interactive vis to analyze simulations of new architecture ideas:

Thursday #ieeevis, first session, Sayef Azad Sakin is presenting "A Literature-based Visualization Task Taxonomy for Gantt Charts," in the "Short Papers: Perception “& Representation” session!

 We collect visualization tasks implemented by Gantt charts:

Alright, just had my last presentation at 🌴 IEEE VIS for this year (talked about #DaVE - dave-vis.com ) and while I am very happy for the discussions that are happening in the conference Discord, I cannot wait to meet everyone again in person. Let’s meet in #Vienna! #ieeevis

A nice write up of the really impressive showing from University of Utah/SCI at this years #ieeevis! Exciting to be part of this mind bendingly cool group www.sci.utah.edu/the-institut...

interested in accessibility, visualization, and data ethics? i'm recruiting phd students to join the data & design group at cu boulder! we're building a collaborative space for people to grow into interdisciplinary researchers of technology and society. #ieeevis data-and-design.org/recruiting

Wednesday #ieeevis, fourth session, Connor Scully-Allison is presenting “Design Concerns for Integrated Scripting and Interactive Visualization in Notebook Environments,” in the Scripts, Notebooks, and Provenance session! We consider whether to support tasks via scripting or visualization:

Look here! Wednesday #ieeevis, third session, Chang Han is presenting “A Deixis-Centered Approach for Documenting Remote Synchronous Communication around Data Visualizations,” in the Collaboration & Communication session! We capture cursor gestures made in online collaborative meetings around data:

Wednesday #ieeevis, first session, Chang Han is presenting "An Overview + Detail Layout for Visualizing Compound Graphs," in the "Short Papers: Graph, Hierarchy and Multidimensional" session!

 Our layout arranges structure representations of multiple levels of a hierarchical network at once:

Over the last 11 months since #ieeevis 2023, the VIS 2024 Overall Papers Chairs (OPCs)---Tamara Munzner, Holger Theisel, and I---have been carefully documenting the "Road to VIS 2024" in a series of 11 posts on the @ieeevis.bsky.social website. Find them here: ieeevis.org/year/2024/bl...

Join us at the #IEEEVIS Conference Futures panel: Community Opinions on Recent Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities for Hybrid Event Formats Oct 16 3:30pm EDT w/ Tim Dwyer, John Alexis Guerra-Gomez, @drpi.bsky.social , Takayuki Itoh, @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social, @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social

I'm excited to announce the release of our tool Color Buddy! It’s a vis color palette designer built on good color science (incl. spaces like LAB/OKLCH) AND it has modern favs like direct manip & AI fiddles. Spicier: it checks your palette (for a11y/design/etc issues) as you go!

🎉 IEEE VIS is on Bluesky! Please give us a follow for updates about the world's top venue for advances in data visualization and visual analytics.

🚀 Big update to VisPubs ( and I'm not just talking about the new logo 🦉)! You can now filter visualization publications by year, venue, awards, and resources! Also, the URL has moved to vispubs.com, and I've added a dark mode for all you night owls 🦉.

Congratulations to Dr. Kiran Gadhave for successfully defending his PhD Thesis "Towards Reproducible and Reusable Visual Analysis". Kiran is on the job market looking for industry research positions! kirangadhave.me #datavis

Some exciting datavis news! Our Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization has been awarded over £9m funding today for 60 PhD positions, offering career paths to currently under-represented groups in the data visualization sector #EPSRC_CDTs. www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We're hiring a visualization / visual analytics postdoc in our lab @ UNC! Getting close to earning a PhD? Interested in data vis and interactive data tools? Want to help address bias and equity in data-driven health research? If so, apply today! Learn more here: vaclab.unc.edu/news/2024_po...

It was only yesterday I realized "The Eyes Have It" is a pun. 😳

You can add alt texts to figures in #LaTeX with `alt={...}`. The alt texts won't necessarily appear in the generated PDF until new versions of LaTeX but let's start with this good practice now.

Useful item I learned about the VIS venue this year: it has mounted shampoo and conditioner instead of the tiny little bottles. Great for people like me with long hair but low special-product needs. Less to pack!