Blog 2017

  • Speaking: How to Use A Microphone

    Speaking: How to Use A Microphone

    When you’re speaking in front of an audience, you’re almost always using a microphone. The point of the microphone is to help your audience hear you. But it can’t do that if you don’t know how to use it or if you actively work against it.


  • IEEE VIS 2017: A SciVis Perspective

    IEEE VIS 2017: A SciVis Perspective

    Since my (Robert)’s conference reports are almost entirely focused on InfoVis (and a bit of VAST), I have asked Noeska Smit, medical visualization professor and my collaborator in the Vis Potpourri postings, to write about VIS from the SciVis perspective. Everything below are Noeska’s words.


  • IEEE VIS 2017: Machine Learning, Diversity, Parties

    IEEE VIS 2017: Machine Learning, Diversity, Parties

    I’ve ignored the major new topic this year so far: machine learning. Another new thing this year, though way overdue, was that we finally started to talk about diversity. And then there were the parties.