In this episode, Jessica Hullman and Robert Kosara join Enrico at IEEE VIS’16 to discuss highlights from the conference, including noteworthy presentations, papers, panels, workshops, and overall major trends.

(From Robert Kosara’s talk “Empire built on sand”)

(From Best Paper recipient, Vega-Lite)

(From presentation, TextTile)

(From presentation, “Iterating between tools to create and edit visualizations”)

LINKS

• Pedagogy of Data Visualization
• C4PGV Workshop
• BELIV Workshop
• Robert Kosara’s talk “Empire built on sand”
• Enrico’s BELIV keynote [slides, video]
• Vega-Lite (Best Paper)
• HindSight: Encouraging Exploration through Direct Encoding of Personal Interaction History
• Visualization by Demonstration
• Attraction-Effect in Information Visualization
• Map LineUps (Honorable Mention)
• TextTile (text visualization tool from Enrico’s lab)
• PROACT:  Iterative Design of a Patient-Centered Visualization for Effective Prostate Cancer Health Risk Communication
• WeightLifter: Visual Weight Space Exploration for Multi-Criteria Decision Making
• Panel: On the Death of Scientific Visualization [video]
• Evaluating the Impact of Binning 2D Scalar Fields
• The Elicitation Interview Technique: Capturing People’s Experiences of Data Representations
• Colorgorical (color palette generation tool)
• Iterating between tools to create and edit visualizations
• Surprise! Bayesian Weighting for De-Biasing Thematic Maps

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• Highlights from IEEE VIS'19 with Tamara Munzner and Robert Kosara
• Highlights from IEEE VIS'22 with Tamara Munzner