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Workshop: Putting Visualization on the Web

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Vis on the Web Teaser

Looking around the web, there are lots of pretty pictures, but very little visualization. Why is that? What is holding us back? And what can we do about it?

The workshop Putting Visualization on the Web will be held at VisWeek 2009 (Atlantic City, NJ, October 11-16). It will allow you to discuss these (and other) questions, offer some directions, and hopefully provide answers that will lead to a more lively and interesting online visualization landscape.

Participation

We solicited position papers earlier, and these will be presented during the workshop. Based on these presentations, we will discuss topics of interest to the audience.

Whether you submitted a position paper, just a registration, or did not register at all: you are welcome to attend. There will be room for enough people, and everybody is welcome!

Program

The final program will be posted shortly, but the structure will be similar to this:

  • Welcome, introductions
  • Short position paper presentations
  • Selection of topics of interest by the audience
  • Discussion in small groups
  • Presentation of group discussion results
  • Plenary discussion, further steps, etc.

Topics

Topics for discussions include, but are certainly not limited to, the following: 

  • Do you have a website or blog?
  • What do you post there? How often?
  • If not, why not? What is holding you back?
  • Do you feel that InfoVis is represented well? What about SciVis? Or Visual Analytics?
  • Is the focus of visualization websites the right one? What else should be covered?
  • Who should blog? Would you like to see more senior visualization people online?
  • What about other media than blogs, like forums, Twitter, YouTube, etc? 

The workshop is meant to be highly dynamic and flexible, responding to the interests of the audience. 

Time and Place

The workshop will be held on Sunday, October 11, from 2pm to 5:30pm.

We don't know the exact room, but it should be easy to find once you have located the VisWeek registration desk.

Organizers

 

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