Hell is Other ReviewersYou can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.Jan 2Jan 2
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin: A Trip Report from IEEE VIS 2024The following is my trip report from IEEE VIS 2024, the premier conference in data visualization research, held virtually, for reasons I…Nov 18, 2024Nov 18, 2024
The Problem With Bar ChartsThis post is adapted from a talk I gave as part of a Tableau Users Group meeting called “Bad, Biased, and Baffling Bars.”Jul 16, 20241Jul 16, 20241
Crossing the KiloPaper Limit: A Trip Report from CHI 2024CHI is the preeminent conference in human-computer interaction, and was held this year in Honolulu, HI. This post is my attempt to…Jun 24, 2024Jun 24, 2024
Exploratory Data Analysis is Mostly Just Vibes, ManThis blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at CHI 2024, “Odds and Insights: Decision Quality in Visual Analytics” written by…Mar 13, 20243Mar 13, 20243
The Body Politic: A Sociopolitical Look at Anatomical VisualizationThis blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at CHI 2024, “When the Body Became Data: Historical Data Cultures and Anatomical…Mar 4, 2024Mar 4, 2024
The Mythos of Visualization Literacy…writing is inferior to speech. For it is like a picture, which can give no answer to a question, and has only a deceitful likeness of a…Feb 21, 2024Feb 21, 2024
The Othering of HCIWhat gets people into the field of computer science, keeps them there once they are in, and shows up in rosy predictions and imagined…Oct 24, 20231Oct 24, 20231
Raining on Visual Statistics’ Parade?This blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at IEEE VIS 2023, “Fitting Bell Curves to Data Distributions using Visualization”…Oct 23, 2023Oct 23, 2023
Are Dashboards Rude?This blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at IEEE VIS 2023, “Heuristics for Supporting Cooperative Dashboard Design” written by…Oct 18, 2023Oct 18, 2023
