here's a preprint of the unhinged paper i wrote with @lane we stop just short of saying that the unthinking use of frequentist statistics puts your very soul at hazard https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08213

The reVISit team will be hosting an open hackathon at TU Graz in Austria, immediately after IEEE VIS from Monday November 10 to Wednesday November 13. Anyone interested in contributing to reVISit is invited to participate!

spent a chunk of today making biblically accurate error bars

Super love seeing regional datavis events making a comeback (and happy to be in town!) ->

Going to #CHI2025 in Japan? Interested in running user studies? Sign up for our virtual CHI 2025 course that teaches you how to use reVISit, a new, open-source user study tool reducing the tedium of study design. Come learn through some practical examples. cvent.me/g5mx2w revisit.dev

Tactile charts are an important tool for conveying data to blind and low vision people via embossed paper. However, tactile charts require high levels of time and expertise to design. Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen news.mit.edu/2025/making-...

behold the CONNECTED SPLATTERPIE kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair

The future of #datavis

1) Cool VIS study, 2) Help our replication effort! ->

Country Noises. (Saul Steinberg, 1979) saulsteinbergfoundation.org

"…there’s one nut we have not been able to crack: anchoring bespoke data visualization as a full fledged profession in corporate settings." Re-reading this article from 2017 (medium.com/visualizing-...), I wonder — where are we at 8 years on?

Slightly annoying when a paper describing an experiment doesn't include a screenshot of the actual task participants performed. (I wrote the paper in question 🫠...)

Cool possibilities for interaction studies ->

This ggplot chart was generated without any theming support, *at all*.

Any freelance Svelte/data visualization developers among my followers? Looking for someone with some availability, starting in a couple of months

ReVISit 2.0 (revisit.dev) reached several exciting milestones recently: 📁 You can now define an entire experiment in a single file— from trial data, stimuli (visualizations and interactions, thanks to Vega-Altair), study blocks/sequences and randomization, questionnaires, etc.

Crowdsourced Think-aloud Studies w/ full interaction provenance+rehydration, auto voice transcription, and correlation between timelines. That plus a pile of new features and capabilities in the reVISit 2.0 release. Check it out & let us know what you think!

More LLM reflections I think a useful model is "everything that in-house counsel is not" In-house counsel doesn't know how to say yes to you; they're entirely made of blood-soaked wisdom. LLMs are excitable improv comedy partners with more memory than wisdom; they don't know how to say no to you.

Still buzzing about the progress the team has made on reVISit over this workshop. Looking forward to sharing new features for creating & instrumenting vis experiments in our upcoming 2.0 release 👀

does anybody have pointers for good papers/blog posts (other than @tamara process&pitfalls + dsm papers, which we [gratefully!] use already) on "how to teach people to write academic hci/vis research papers that don't suck"?

Send us your vis experiment dreams! 💭

#genuary7 „Use software that is not intended to create art or images.“ Did you know that there's tons of one-color videos like "4 Hours of Red" on YouTube? And that you can control browser windows using AppleScript? And that none of these things are intended to create art? #genuary2025 #genuary

End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁  https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?

I drew these for the #datafam holiday card exchange, but figured I'd share them for others to use too! Put them on your cards, gift tags, or anywhere that needs a little more #dataviz 📊

Us #ieeevis 2025 OPCs worked hard on this: the new call for papers is now live! ieeevis.org/year/2025/ye... Submit your best work! Brief account of changes for 2025: * Extra week for supplemental material * Student reviewer program * Opt-in publication of reviews for accepted papers

How can we visualize what a book ISN'T talking about? With an anti-tag cloud! See the most common English words that are never mentioned in a text. www.bewitched.com/demo/anti/

Another #dataviz from the ceiling height paper's data with an interesting pattern: density dot plot of the final course grades for two years of students, using hex grid jitter. 50 must be an important result at these Australian universities.

Because tis the season for grad-school applications: re-surfacing my blog-post on how to prepare for CS grad school while you're still in college: vdl.sci.utah.edu/blog/2020/11... In brief: get engaged with faculty, as a TA or as a research assistant as soon as possible.

This is interesting: researchers at MIT used generative AI plus elevation and a physics model to create plausible images of potential flooding: climate-viz.github.io More info: news.mit.edu/2024/new-ai-... 🛰️

This is a great point, and was one reason @abhsarma.bsky.social (with me + @jessicahullman.bsky.social) built a multiverse analysis tool that tries to help experts understand and evaluate the validity of subsets of a multiverse, rather than just shrugging: "enh, results vary" doi.org/10.1145/3613...

We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data. Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API. ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...

my take on bringing HCI to PL blog.sigplan.org/2024/11/21/e...

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

I made a data visualization academics starter pack! go.bsky.app/wzjzNi Let me know who I should add. #datavis

I like this way of presenting ordinal data! I think people are sometimes too quick to use stacked bar charts for ordinal data when histograms can be simpler and easier to read #datavis #rstats

I'm struck by how much more visualization effort is applied in elections to contextualize people by their race & ethnicity, age, education, geography, rural vs. urban, etc. It's impressive the nuance + attention we are able to summon when we want people to vote like us.

Hi new website! I'm Alper and I work on the Power BI Core Visuals team as an software engineer at Microsoft. I try to bridge the gap between research and practice in driving effective visualization authoring and consumption experiences for people of varying data and visual fluency.

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'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!

↔️ How are #datavis designed in RTL languages like Arabic? 📜 Muna Alebri @curiouslemur.bsky.social @laneh.bsky.social analysed charts from Arabic journals & discuss the design patterns wrt directionalities 📍Follow our talk on Thu, Oct. 17-1015 EDT #BayshoreIV 🔗https://shorturl.at/AsfLK #ieeevis

Run better user studies with reVISIT! reVISit lets you quickly design, publish, and disseminate your customized visualization studies. Your study will be fully reproducible too. Join our #IEEEVIS tutorial at 12pm EDT on Sunday, 10/13 to get started with reVISit. ieeevis.org/year/2024/pr...

I love seeing NASA Earth Observatory images showing up in places like NPR! Satellite images show Helene’s devastation is visible from space www.npr.org/2024/10/04/n...

Sign of the times? I guess they couldn't not create 3D graphs in 1979, the whole Atlas of Earth Resources I just bought is full of them 😍😅. Often unnecessary and a bit over the top but the work it must have took is admirable 👏 #dataviz #graphs ( @infowetrust.com @datavisfriendly.bsky.social)

Dear VIS Community, we have great news! After a busy weekend, we completed an emergency site visit at a new conference venue in the Tampa area. We are moving ahead with the new venue and will provide specifics once the contract is finalized, around the end of the week!

"Singular value decomposition" (SVD) is the most useful linear algebra technique I know. But it's often not taught in classes! Here's a visual demo for the 2D case, which gives you all the intuition you need for higher dimensions: www.bewitched.com/demo/svd/

Excited to launch a new project today! 🌊 Waves of Interest 🔍 We investigate how the search interest in political topics shifts across US election cycles, using Google Trends Data. waves-of-interest.truth-and-beauty.net

Want to visualize plays? With about 15 minutes of dialog, got the new ChatGPT to build a self-contained HTML page where I can paste any Shakespeare play, and see small-multiples views of the social network of each scene. From a "chatathon" with @viegas.bsky.social. Piece of a screenshot below.

🦉 Quick VisPubs Update 🦉 - Added EuroVis 2024 Publications - Added CHI 2024 Publications Check it out → vispubs.com

every time I teach quantitative methods, my plots get a little bit better

Thanks @evanmpeck.bsky.social for the shout out! I always tell my students people should be able to understand your paper by just skimming the figures - which means annotation, annotation, annotation! cc @laneh.bsky.social @fumeng.bsky.social @kalealex.bsky.social @jonfroehlich.bsky.social