This is a guest posting by my Tableau Research colleague Michael Correll.
I recently attended CHI 2018 in MontrĂ©al, QC. Normally conferences leave me excited for the next idea or the next direction (and also physically exhausted). This was one of the first where I was left feeling terrified: A lot of the work did an excellent job of highlighting core problems about our assumptions as visualization researchers, and poked at big intractable issues that I had mostly been ignoring for a long time. There were also exactly 666 accepted papers, which is not a good omen either. [Read more…] about Seven Visualization Talks That Terrified Me At CHI