130 | Highlights from IEEE VIS 2018

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It was a great week in Berlin! Info+ and IEEE VIS took place at the same time and both Enrico and Moritz were there to document the conferences. We also organized a super fun Data Stories listeners meetup — more on that to come!

This week, our friends Jessica Hullman and Robert Kosara join Enrico to comment on their greatest highlights from IEEE VIS.

We discuss a handful of IEEE VIS events and then spotlight a few projects and papers that we especially liked. As usual, this is just a very thin slice of the conference offerings. There is much more to discover from the program!

Find links below to all the projects that we discuss on the show.

Enjoy!

Links:

• Vis in Practice
• VisComm Workshop
• Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco
• Design Exposition with Literate Visualization
• Seq2Seq-Vis: A Visual Debugging Tool for Sequence to Sequence Models
• RuleMatrix: Visualizing and Understanding Classifiers with Rules
• Charticulator: Interactive Construction of Bespoke Chart Layouts
• What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards?
• Face to Face: Evaluating Visual Comparison
• FiberClay: Sculpting Three Dimensional Trajectories to Reveal Structural Insights
• Information Olfactation: Harnessing Scent to Convey Data

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Chapters

1. Welcome to Data Stories! (00:00:19)

2. Support us on Patreon! (00:00:51)

https://www.patreon.com/datastories

3. Today's topic: a recap of the IEEE Vis '18 conference (00:01:13)

http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/welcome

4. Our guests: Jessica Hullman from Northwestern University (00:02:06)

http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~jhullman/

5. and Robert Kosara from Tableau (00:02:29)

https://eagereyes.org/

6. What is IEEE Vis Conference? (00:03:12)

7. Robert on the "BELIV Workshop" (00:04:58)

8. Robert on "Vis in Practice" (00:07:48)

http://www.visinpractice.rwth-aachen.de/

9. Robert on "Meet the founders" (00:09:50)

10. Robert on "VisComm Workshop" (00:11:48)

https://viscomm.io/

11. Jessica on "Draco" (00:13:05)

https://uwdata.github.io/draco/

12. Jessica on "LitVis" (00:15:47)

https://github.com/gicentre/litvis

13. Jessica on "Seq-to-Seq Vis" (00:18:05)

http://seq2seq-vis.io/

14. Enrico on "Black Boxes and Rule Matrix" (00:20:38)

http://myaooo.com/projects/rule-matrix/

15. Robert on "Charticulator" (00:22:18)

https://github.com/Microsoft/charticulator

16. Robert on "Dashboard conspiracy" (00:24:01)

https://alper.datav.is/assets/publications/dashboards/dashboards-preprint.pdf

17. Robert on "Face to Face: Evaluating Visual Comparison" (00:27:49)

http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~elm/projects/face2face/face2face.pdf

18. Jessica on "Uncertainty and Error" (00:29:17)

19. Enrico on "FiberClay" (00:31:36)

https://recherche.enac.fr/~hurter/FiberClay/FiberClay2018.pdf

20. Enrico on "Information Olfactation" (00:33:22)

http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~elm/projects/info-olfac/info-olfac.pdf

21. Robert on "Graphical Recorder" (00:34:56)

22. Get in touch with us and support us on Patreon (00:36:45)

https://www.patreon.com/datastories