A panel on empirical methods, papers on time series, and perhaps the best capstone at VIS ever rounded out the conference on Thursday and Friday. [Read more...] about VIS 2016 – Thursday, Friday: Empirical Methods, Better Presentations
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VIS 2016 – Wednesday, Thursday: Papers and the Death of SciVis
Two more postings about VIS 2016 last week! Wednesday got a lot of us talking, with the Death of SciVis panel. There were also more papers on a variety of topics. [Read more...] about VIS 2016 – Wednesday, Thursday: Papers and the Death of SciVis
VIS 2016 – Tuesday
The official opening of the main conference was today, Tuesday. The conference is now in full swing until Friday. [Read more...] about VIS 2016 – Tuesday
VIS 2016 – Sunday, Monday: BELIV and Being Contrarian
The early part of IEEE VIS 2016 is already behind us. This includes many workshops, tutorials, as well as the Doctoral Colloquium. It has been an interesting three days (considering Saturday here as well). This posting is less a report as a number of observations from a several discussions and talks. [Read more...] about VIS 2016 – Sunday, Monday: BELIV and Being Contrarian
IEEE VIS Pointers and Running
VIS is around the corner, taking place in Baltimore next week. Here are some pointers to a handful of interesting papers, as well as how to catch one of my live performances or attend the blogging and podcasting meetup – plus a reminder to bring your running shoes! [Read more...] about IEEE VIS Pointers and Running
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 On Sand: Reexamining What We Think We Know About Visualization. [Read more...] about Paper: An Empire Built On Sand
VIS Proceedings now in the January Issue of TVCG
There has been a change in the way papers presented at IEEE VIS are published in the TVCG journal. It used to be the last issue of the year, but starting in 2015, it’s now the January issue of the next year. So all VIS 2015 papers have a publication date of 2016. [Read more…] about VIS Proceedings now in the January Issue of TVCG
VIS 2015 – Friday
The final day of the conference was much shorter, only one full session and then the closing with the capstone. Here is a report on a few more papers, the capstone, a panel left over from Thursday, and a few random tidbits. [Read more…] about VIS 2015 – Friday
VIS 2015 – Thursday
Between the sessions, parties, discussions, running, and the occasional short sleep break, I fell a bit behind on the blogging about VIS 2015. After separate postings for Tuesday and Wednesday, this part covers Thursday. The posting about Friday will be short, but squeezing both days into one felt like a bit too much. [Read more…] about VIS 2015 – Thursday
VIS 2015 – Wednesday
The second full day of VIS 2015 brought lots of papers on applications and design studies, and also a panel on solved problems in visualization. As on the first day, I have some observations and thoughts. [Read more…] about VIS 2015 – Wednesday