86 | Highlights from IEEE VIS'16 with Jessica Hullman and Robert Kosara

Data Stories

In this episode, Jessica Hullman and Robert Kosara join Enrico at IEEE VIS’16 to discuss highlights from the conference, including noteworthy presentations, papers, panels, workshops, and overall major trends.

(From Robert Kosara’s talk “Empire built on sand”)

(From Best Paper recipient, Vega-Lite)

(From presentation, TextTile)

(From presentation, “Iterating between tools to create and edit visualizations”)

LINKS

• Pedagogy of Data Visualization
• C4PGV Workshop
• BELIV Workshop
• Robert Kosara’s talk “Empire built on sand”
• Enrico’s BELIV keynote [slides, video]
• Vega-Lite (Best Paper)
• HindSight: Encouraging Exploration through Direct Encoding of Personal Interaction History
• Visualization by Demonstration
• Attraction-Effect in Information Visualization
• Map LineUps (Honorable Mention)
• TextTile (text visualization tool from Enrico’s lab)
• PROACT: Iterative Design of a Patient-Centered Visualization for Effective Prostate Cancer Health Risk Communication
• WeightLifter: Visual Weight Space Exploration for Multi-Criteria Decision Making
• Panel: On the Death of Scientific Visualization [video]
• Evaluating the Impact of Binning 2D Scalar Fields
• The Elicitation Interview Technique: Capturing People’s Experiences of Data Representations
• Colorgorical (color palette generation tool)
• Iterating between tools to create and edit visualizations
• Surprise! Bayesian Weighting for De-Biasing Thematic Maps

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:19)

2. Introducing Robert Kosara (00:00:39)

3. Introducing Jessica Hullman (00:00:50)

4. Workshop: Innovations in the Pedagogy of Data Vis (00:01:50)

5. Workshop: C4PGV (00:04:09)

6. Enrico's keynote, BELIV (00:06:03)

7. Jessica Hullman's talk (00:08:55)

8. Robert Kosara's talk (00:09:40)

9. Panel on "On the Future of Evaluation and BELIV" (00:13:49)

10. Ricardo Hausmann's keynote (00:16:16)

11. Best Paper Award: Vega-Lite (00:19:02)

12. Presentation on HindSight (00:23:10)

13. Presentation on Visualization by Demonstration (00:25:12)

14. Presentation on The Attraction Effect in Info Vis (00:26:21)

15. Honorable Mention: Map LineUps (00:29:10)

16. Presentation on TextTile (00:31:22)

17. Presentation on PROACT (00:34:12)

18. Presentation on WeightLifter (00:36:15)

19. Panel: On the Death of Scientific Visualization (00:38:31)

20. Presentation on Evaluating the Impact of Binning 2D Scalar Fields (00:47:16)

21. Presentation on the Elicitation Interview Technique (00:51:08)

22. Presentation on InfoVis and Storytelling (00:53:00)

23. Presentation on Iteration Between Tools (00:53:56)

24. Presentation on Data-Driven Guides (00:55:12)

25. Presentation on Colorgorical (00:57:22)

26. Time Series: Surprise! Bayesian Weighting for De-Biasing Thematic Maps (00:59:13)

27. Major trends (01:02:54)

28. VIS 16 Parties (01:08:15)

29. Rate us and get in touch! (01:10:12)