VisWeek 2009

The Visualization on the Web workshop was quite a success. Despite it being Sunday and before any "real" part of VisWeek started, there were around 100 people. The discussion went from writing about visualization, academic blogging, etc., to questions of how to do visualization on the web, providing access to public data, etc.

Some questions that came up don't only apply to the web: open sourcing of research code, for example, or interoperability between (vastly) different modules written by different people.

There were good discussions, and many of the points need to be pursued further. I will write a longer report in a week or two, summarizing the different questions and what we talked about. 

I was sick yesterday (still am a bit), which is why there haven't been many updates. Things should pick up soon, though. The slow WiFi doesn't help, I'm mostly tweeting from my iPhone right now. I will add a bit more here tonight.

This year, I will post glimpses here as well as tweet. There is a Twitter sidebar on the eagereyes frontpage now, which is tuned to the #VisWeek channel (showing everybody's tweets, not just mine). That way, you have everything in one place, and can follow what's happening on Twitter even if you are not a Twitter user.

I have also started posting the first few pictures of Atlantic City on flickr. Another photoset with pictures from the conference itself will follow once there are some. 

VisWeek has technically begun, with the Doctoral Colloquium and a VAST workshop earlier today, and the registration opening from 6-9pm. If you can't immediately find the registration: it's on the sixth floor; exit the elevator to the right and then turn right again. You can't miss the poster boards.