Papers

This section contains articles about scientific papers written by me, Robert Kosara. You can find all of my papers over on my personal portfolio/vanity website, kosara.net.

  • Paper: Skipping the Replication Crisis in Visualization

    Paper: Skipping the Replication Crisis in Visualization

    Visualization doesn’t have the replication issues that some other fields are struggling with right now, but is that because our science is so strong or because nobody actually bothers with replications? And what can we do to get ahead of potential problems before we run into a full-on crisis? In a paper to be presented […]


  • Paper: An Argument Structure for Data Stories

    Paper: An Argument Structure for Data Stories

    There is talk about stories having a beginning, middle, and end, but what does that mean for data stories? How do you create the overall structure for those? In a paper to be presented at EuroVis next week, I discuss a simple but very useful structure that I have found “in the wild,” and that I […]


  • Paper: Readability and Precision in Pictorial Bar Charts

    Paper: Readability and Precision in Pictorial Bar Charts

    Embellished charts are common in information graphics. But are embellished bar charts actually harder to read than plain ones? In a short paper to be presented at EuroVis next week, Drew Skau and I present a study that looked into this question.