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Acceptance rates are one of the key ways of measuring the quality of conferences. I think it's time we collect that data for conferences relevant to visualization. I have put together a page for this, and have found some of that data. But I need your help to fill in the gaps and suggest other conferences that would be of interest.

This list collects acceptance rates for conferences that are the most relevant for people in visualization, in particular information visualization. The goal is to provide more transparency about the conferences in our field, and more material when arguing for the quality of our work.

Have you recently gotten your Ph.D. from a U.S. institution (or are about to) and want to do interesting work in visualization? Computing Innovation (CI) Fellows are a great way to get funding for a year or two of post-doctoral work, and I am looking to host one.

Getting started with your own blog is so easy today that many people never get to actually doing it. One of the goals of the Putting Visualization on the Web workshop was to get more visualization blogs and websites going. So here are some pointers and a few tips on how to avoid some pitfalls that are especially dangerous for technical people. The goal is not to point to millions of resources, but to narrow down the choices so you can get started writing.

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p>I just deactivated anonymous comments completely. If you want to leave a comment, you will have to create a user. I hope that I can turn them on again in a few days, but for the moment, this is the only way I can stop the relentless spamming.

There is a problem with the Atom feed for the site. While I'm trying to figure out how to fix it, consider using the RSS feed instead. There is no difference in content.

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p>Update: The feed is fixed now, so if you still see broken items, try to do a reload in your feed reader. I will remove this entry from the feed in a day or so.