These are the design guidelines I teach. From halfway through this deck: www.mjskay.com/presentation... These days (for academic vis) I'd add "ensure natural visual operations correspond to meaningful operations in data space". Need to make slides for that.

It's happening again!! alt.VIS is returning to #IEEEVIS for another year of creativity, criticality, and alterity! Bring us your hot takes, bring us your work that falls outside of mainstream academic vis, bring us your weird stuff!! Deadline is August 1st altvis.github.io

1/2 Graag jullie meedenken en netwerkbereik om mij aan een nieuwe opdracht te helpen: Ik werk als data illustrator en zet cijfers en andere gegevens in mooie beelden om, van staafdiagram tot datakunst. email [email protected] Repost is fijn :-)

Really enjoyed the course Modern-Day oracles or Bullshit Machines - How to thrive in a ChatGPT world developed by @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social. I am considering using it in my Visual Data Science course next time I teach it :) 10/10, do recommend! thebullshitmachines.com

🎈 🎓 We are hiring a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Télécom Paris ! 🧪 Come and work with us ! 🎈 The deadline is really soon ... 🚀 More infos here : diva.telecom-paristech.fr/jobs/prof-20... #chi2025 #HCI #visualisation #hiring #CHI #fabrication #Design #wearable #mobile #Programming

Is it even legal to rebrand #stroopwafels as maple waffles and sell them as a Canadian souvenir without credit? Awesome to have thoughtful colleagues bring back delicious treats from work trips though! Thanks @leif-oltedal.bsky.social !

We are thrilled to announce that VCBM 2025 will come back to TUDelft in the Netherlands. We are particularly happy to share that all accepted full papers will be published in Computers and Graphics this year. For full details on submission types and scope, please check our website at www.vcbm.org.

The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.

Fantastic must read article by @moritzstefaner.bsky.social on the crisis (or not) in #dataviz Very well articulated and resonates deeply with me: truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis...

Looking for a change of scenery? We welcome applications to our Associate Professor or full Professor (depending on qualifications) position in Visualization/Visual Data Science at the University of Bergen, Norway, until February 28th! Come work with us :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Are you a "data fiber artist" (representing data through knitting, crocheting, embroidery, sewing, weaving, etc.)? Please help my PhD student Sydney collect information about this fascinating practice for her thesis with this survey: skpurdue.github.io/DataFiberArts/. Please repost! Thx!

Horrifying story of LLM content being retroactively added to physicsforums, as if it had been posted by the original authors. hallofdreams.org/posts/physic...

Instead of a pure #retrospective, I've been writing a quite personal "year transition #blog post" every year for a few years now. The latest one has just been published! cpbotha.net/2025/01/19/t... #running #health #diet #obsidian #emacs #mindfulness #aging

Knitting my kid a pair of felted mittens in leftover yarn only to run out of leftover yarn midway 😅 The solution is of course to shop for more yarn which will turn into leftover yarn. A vicious cycle I can't get mad about! ☺️ 🧶 #knitting #raumavams

Come work with us!

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...

When it is not raining, Bergen is really something special ☺️ This was just on my way to and from work.

So I had a side project idea a while ago, but great news everyone! Other people have done it and they have done a better job than I ever could! Over on the Pudding, they have a beautiful interactive data story on the use of Lena over time. 📊

📊 vs. 🥧 I made a tiny teaching tool to help me interactively demo + share differences between 📊 and 🥧 Play: I find that tinkering with data + visuals in class reinforces understanding far more than slides or readings Save + share: Copy the url to link the current data 👉 barvpie.netlify.app

Random side project idea, I would love to visualize the frequency of Lena image use in scientific publications over time, but no idea how to get the data... Does Google Scholar support image search?🤔📊

Wanted to share this amazing video if you are teaching or want to learn about splines by @freya.bsky.social ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPP...

Several years ago I collaborated with Prof Huib Simonsz (then at Erasmus MC Rotterdam), Ben Willekens, Gijsbert Hötte et al. to scan, register and publish many hundreds of #microscopy sections of the human #eye. View the registered slices: visible-orbit.org/the-collecti... (much more info at site)

Discovering feeds! Just found this great data visualization one! bsky.app/profile/did:... Any other recommendations?

Going to deactivate my Twitter account later today and going all in on here and maybe a bit of Mastodon (though that somehow didn't really stick so far!) Bluesky really seems to have a great community! <3

On Friday, Kari Wagner-Larsen, one of the PhDs I had the pleasure to co-advise, defended her thesis on advanced MRI for developing more personalized treatment in cervical cancer. I am so proud of her and her achievements! Probably the best part of my job, getting to work with awesome people!

An interactive #dataviz of 13 million @bsky.app users in the browser! By Joel Gustafson aurora.ndimensional.xyz That's pretty amazing

My super personal Weekly Head Voices #blog rides again! This one has a bit about why I am really liking #bluesky (hint: it's the people!) and more bits about growing older. cpbotha.net/2024/11/17/w...

This is probably not news to anyone, but balancing being a parent, partner, and a good citizen in academia is so hard! I feel like I am behind on everything all at once. Hard not to lose myself in the process. Tips welcome ☺️

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

Getting some help at home to prepare a Computer Graphics lecture on splines! Husband started out doing metal band logos on paper, found the pen tool and then used just splines for a while! Curious about his more recent work? He is also new to Bluesky: @tundratoucan.bsky.social <3 #graphics

I don't know how to do a good first post, so I will just share something random. I recently finished knitting a cardigan for my toddler. It took me as long as it took to grow him, but he is not having it. He shouts 'Off!' as soon as I try to get him to wear it. #knit www.ravelry.com/projects/Noe...

Here you go. 🫡 Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊 go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy