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.
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Paper: Finding a Clear Path: Structuring Strategies for Visualization Sequences
How should you sequence information in a data story so it makes the most sense? Are some sequences better than others? Does time have to move forward or does it not matter? In a paper to be published at EuroVis next week, with Jessica Hullman at UW and my Tableau Research colleague Heidi Lam, we […]
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Paper: An Empire Built On Sand
It’s not a secret that I think that we need to ask some harder questions about the foundations that we’re building visualization on. In a paper to be presented at the BELIV workshop at VIS next week, I’m making the case for that more extensively than I have so far. The full title of the paper is An Empire Built […]
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A Pair of Pie Chart Papers
How do we read pie charts? Do they differ from the even more reviled donut charts? What about common pie chart designs like exploded pies? In two papers to be presented at EuroVis next week, Drew Skau and I show that the common wisdom about how we read these charts (by angle) is almost certainly wrong, and that […]