#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 📅Jun 8 1637 On this day, the printing of René Descartes' "Discours de la Méthode" was completed, including its important appendix on Geometry in which he introduced the Cartesian coordinate system.

🎈We are hiring PhD student 🤩 With Nathalie Bressa and @drpi.bsky.social we are looking for a new PhD student 🚀 "Artifact ecologies & Participatory Design of Physical Data Representations for Deliberation.” More infos : www.pepr-ensemble.fr/proposition-...

We have a new PhD position open in data physicalization: www.pepr-ensemble.fr/campagne_the... Psephos: Artifact ecologies & Participatory Design of Physical Data Representations for Deliberation Application deadline: May 15th.

Now at para.chi Paris: what is our preferred future for a more sustainable CHI? Stay tuned for the winner...

Today we are at para.chi Paris where we see (mostly local) papers to be presented at ACM CHI in Japan. It's really nice to connect locally before the big conference (especially because I'm not going).

Interested in a Visualization/HCI PhD in France? Come join us. We have 2 positions and will accept dual-career couples as well: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

A new version of Vispubdata (www.vispubdata.org) is out. It now includes the IEEE VIS 2024 papers and their metadata as well as the TVCG and @ieeecga.bsky.social papers presented at VIS. If you are working on an #ieeevis submission using this dataset, update.

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Meine Bundestagswahlunterlagen sind gestern in Frankreich angekommen. Laut Ordnungsamt am 6.2.2025 mit der deutschen Post aus meiner kleinen schwäbischen Gemeinde verschickt - am 13.3. angekommen. Poststempel aus Salzburg (ohne Datum). Wie bitte kommt mein Brief nach Österreich?

I spent 2h on my last Friday evening with these great people. And nobody on social media has found the easter egg yet.

This would have been such a cool class project

If you are into BioVis consider attending VIZBI. I have been there before and it is a very nice community:

Excellent observation of CDU politics in @zeit.de “The secret basic law of CDU politics: the reasonableness of political ideas and concepts is not derived from what they contain, but from who represents them. Only when we represent them and by representing them do they become reasonable.“

A trip down memory lane at the Dagstuhl library. I learned Java programming with the transparencies that eventually turned into this book.

My first time on the omnidirectional treadmill at the University of Stuttgart. Pretty impressive and massive and a little scary all at once.

Mal ein bisschen Känguru zur Aufheiterung zur deutschen Wahl: youtu.be/ekxkveEnE2k

The IEEE CG&A special issue on Next-Generation Mixed-Reality User Experiences is now available online. It includes 3 theme articles, 6 department contributions, and 4 articles from our regular submission queue. View the new issue online at: https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/cg/2024/06

I am the (volunteer) social media editor at CG&A and just set up a bluesky account for the magazine. I will highlight when new issues come out, and advertise some articles with vis/graphics/hci topics. Please help me to get this started by following @ieeecga.bsky.social .

**Call for Papers: Special Issue on Breakthroughs, Challenges, and Opportunities in Biological Data Visualization** Submissions Due: 21 February 2025 More information: www.computer.org/digital-libr... Guest editors: Elisabeta (Liz) Marai Jillian Aurisano

The new www.vispubdata.org update is out. New: VIS 2023 papers with downloads & GRSI columns, TVCG journal papers presented at VIS, and a github repository. github.com/pisenberg/vi...