Blog 2010
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My Journey to the Kingdom of NIPS
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to visit the strange land of NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), a kingdom in the far corners of the West, where the Machine Learners dwell. Some of the noblemen there had invited me so that the locals could get a close-up look at one of us Visualization People at one of their workshops.
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Stories Don’t Tell Themselves
Storytelling was a big topic at VisWeek this year: there was a workshop, a panel, and at least one paper about how to tell stories with visualization. One sentence I heard over and over was, “this photo/visualization/illustration tells a great story.” But pictures don’t tell stories, people do. An image, a visualization, data, etc. can only be the material the story is made from. I think it’s going to be important for visualization to understand this fundamental difference.