Almost a year to the day since I last posted this. An admonishment by Mao's government to the China's statisticians on the need for "statistics with particular Party character." (Chinese newspaper in '61)

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

Can someone explain to me the objections to the arxiv survey paper thing? I get that it might be a biased, and maybe not grounded in data, but what's the actual/perceived benefit for posting on arxiv vs... I don't know... anywhere else? Is it citations? visibility? genuinely curious...

Coining a new phrase: "Great Pacific Paper Patch." Definition: The growing collection of rejected papers floating from conference to conference and clogging up the knowledge ocean. :)

When reacting to some kind of new (manufactured) scandal every day, the press forgets they can come back the next day and say: you didn't know about it yesterday, but you've had a day to think about this, what's your reaction?

Fun paper from a recent project with UMich alumni Tenghao Ji. Can we pick better images for Wikipedia articles? Given all the choices in the Wikipedia Commons, which image is best as an "instructional aid?" (1/5)

John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) at UMSI. Apps due Nov 1. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

We need something more technical sounding than "co-evolution" to describe this... RHLAF: reinforcing human learning through AI feedback? HAAF: human adaptation through AI feedback? :)

I'm very curious... Are cheese curlers often used in the bathtub? Was the art director like, "how do I show that our cheese curler is rust proof?"

If you depend on EMNLP/ARR for your publishing or for hiring/promotion, I feel bad for you.

I'm not sure who recommended it to me, but let me pass it on since it was a fun read: "Get the Picture" by Bianca Bosker

Who knew... Claude can be funny... ;) Real researchers don't use LLMs: claude.ai/share/91111e...

Decision-making studies appear in HCI, vis, & increasingly AI/ML, but how “good decision” is defined is often ad-hoc My #CHI2025 talk today will answer Qs like: What's a decision problem? What's the best possible performance on a decision problem? What minimum info must participants be given? 1/2

I occasionally watch this couple doing a massive rebuild on their house. It's interesting how much they use/trust ChatGPT: youtu.be/KEgQO6ynJWE?.... Guess this is the new post-search world, but I'm waiting for the episode where they figure out it gave them bad advice on something critical.

Worth the occasional repost given today's world

We need to stop talking about indirects as: oh, I need $100k for research, but we charge the government $155k so I can give $55k to my institution for whatever. 1/2

The new administration is just crazy. What other organization achieves the same policy effect no matter who gets hired? They can bring in the super strategic or super incompetent and the results (at least short term) are the same.

Well, at least I'll have finished one book in 2025. Recommended if you like board games and/or artifacts of social life. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Consider a fictional graduate student brain N, and a scientist Q who wishes to use N in their research pipeline (e.g. for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, N is not fully understood by Q. Is it acceptable to use N? To be clear, there's a difference, but not sure it's "understanding."

Google easter egg made me think I was having a vertigo episode. Very tipsy. Very funny.

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If you like Wordle, let me recommend Typeset (dvc.games/products/typ...). You can try the digital variant here: mxjasperbeatrix.itch.io/typeset but I like the physical version (easier to play with others).

FWIW, blueark.app worked well. $5 to copy my tweet history over. Not sure *my* tweets were worth that... But that's not their fault.

Happy Stress Day to all those who celebrate!

The regulation of AI debate feels like that scene out of Contact where the government panel tells Jodie Foster's character that she can't go meet the aliens because she doesn't represent humanity. But then some crazy billionaire is like, whatevs...

What happens when everyone in the conference is trying to get at the proceedings #UIST2024

Hotels that don't reset alarm clocks between guests deserve a special place in hell.

Speaking of CHI reviewing, anyone want to pay for my services in review matchmaking? I'm starting a consulting business: CHI Yenta.

I understand "after hours" access door; Or after hours "access" door; Or after hours access "door." But why "after hours access door?" Famous quote by LS&A?

Economists: Deeply offended at a paper showing the job market is sensitive to retweets. Also economists: Colluding and gossiping on the econ. job markets rumors board.

I wrote up some thoughts about the challenges of grants during the AI Summer. And some possible ways of addressing these when writing an applied AI proposal 1/n

Wrote up some thoughts... medium.com/p/62bd7414be74

Sad end to a beautiful building. Picture from last summer. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/style/copenhagen-old-stock-exchange-fire-intl/index.html

If you work with #p5js, #processing or any similar generative art programming language, please help with our research project by filling out this short survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbSwq2B_bx81Y0mA11NelQ9heTYfaPkF7JamLGYJvGxnAbhw/viewform

Academic twitter right now. (FWIW, I am sorry for all who aren't getting in where you want. I know it's hard.)

When I was at PARC, there were a bunch of extropians. I don't know why, but EA types remind me of them.

Semantic scholar usually gives me good recommendations, but sometimes it has funny suggestions. Many years ago I studied web rings (don't worry about it, most of you are too young). I can only guess that is why it recommended:...

Among various searches at UMSI, we're hiring for someone working at the intersection of AI and science & society. Consider applying! www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

sheesh... hiring... we're hiring! I should not post from my phone! There will be no hitting! https://twitter.com/eytanadar/status/1719097416295555210

Best part: the completely understated description... https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9554-Fowler-Ln-NW-Rapid-City-MI-49676/106235652_zpid/

Sara (@dubadar) was just on live Australian TV talking about her lab's new dementia and pollution study! The kids and I watched it from downstairs

Sara (@dubadar) was on NPR talking about the fires today. Stay safe everyone! https://www.michiganradio.org/show/stateside/2023-06-07/stateside-wednesday-june-7-2023

Want a way to generate stylized visualizations? We just wrapped up a project to transform existing visualizations using text prompts. viz2viz is the work of @kolvacs_wu and @john_jyc. Here's a bar chart as a bunch of peppers:

Do I get to put our contribution to Twitter's "algorithm" in my annual report? (Cc/ @ladamic ) :)

visualization versus perspective (from Poland, 1967)

Florida's new education bill https://twitter.com/eytanadar/status/1574446898206736386

Almost a month later, still can't search for mega https://twitter.com/eytanadar/status/1619000047928229889

Does "mega" mean something I don't know? Twitter doesn't let you search for it.

MusicLM is very cool ( https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/). The voice tracks all remind me of Prisencolinensinainciusol (https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8). Sounds like English, is not English.

Eccentric billionaires do as eccentric billionaires do. 1999 to 2022.