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Mar 7

Visualization Design Research: Catastrophizing, Collaborating, and Caring

This blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at CHI 2023, “Troubling Collaboration: Matters of Care for Visualization Design Study” written by Derya Akbaba, Devin Lange, Michael Correll, Alexander Lex, and Miriah Meyer. For more details, read the paper. Researchers are occasionally asked (or evaluated on) how much they…

Visualization

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Visualization Design Research: Catastrophizing, Collaborating, and Caring
Visualization Design Research: Catastrophizing, Collaborating, and Caring
Visualization

9 min read


Feb 22

An Inconvenient Graph

Or: How to Manipulate a Time Series if You Don’t Like What it Shows — In recent decades, the world has been getting warmer. This change in climate has and will continue to disrupt how we live our lives, occasionally catastrophically. There is broad scientific consensus that this change is linked to human activity, specifically the release of greenhouse gases, dwarfing the contribution of other…

Visualization

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An Inconvenient Graph
An Inconvenient Graph
Visualization

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Dec 13, 2022

Methodological Counter-Terrorism: Making Open Science Boring

In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate…

Visualization

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Methodological Counter-Terrorism: Making Open Science Boring
Methodological Counter-Terrorism: Making Open Science Boring
Visualization

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Dec 8, 2022

Visualization in the Wild: A Trip Report from VIS 2022

I recently (for some pretty elastic definition of “recent,” but I’ve been juggling priorities and this recap got dropped on the floor) attended this year’s installment of IEEE VIS, the premiere conference on information visualization. This was the first hybrid installment after two years of pandemic-induced purely virtual events, with…

Visualization

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Visualization in the Wild: A Trip Report from VIS 2022
Visualization in the Wild: A Trip Report from VIS 2022
Visualization

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Oct 7, 2022

Folk Theories and Fallacies in Tech Ethics

You were not born knowing the theory of gravity, yet when somebody tosses a ball you know roughly where to go to try to catch it (or, at the very least, where to look to see where it’s going to land). Likewise, you do not have to totally understand the…

Ethics

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Folk Theories and Fallacies in Tech Ethics
Folk Theories and Fallacies in Tech Ethics
Ethics

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May 13, 2022

Laissez les bons temps tousser: A Trip Report from CHI 2022

In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s (you, know the Le Petit Prince guy) 1931 novella Vol de Nuit (Night Flight), Rivière, the station chief of an airmail operation in South America, intentionally sends men and machines on (at the time) extremely perilous night flights up and down the Andes and in all…

Hci

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Laissez les bons temps tousser: A Trip Report from CHI 2022
Laissez les bons temps tousser: A Trip Report from CHI 2022
Hci

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Apr 27, 2022

The Promises and Perils of “Automatic Data Visualization Recommendation”

This blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at CHI 2022, “Recommendations for Visualization Recommendations: Exploring Preferences and Priorities in Public Health” written by Calvin Bao, Siyao Li, Sarah Flores, Michael Correll, and Leilani Battle. For more details, read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01335! The pitch is pretty simple: you want…

Visualization

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The Promises and Perils of “Automatic Data Visualization Recommendation”
The Promises and Perils of “Automatic Data Visualization Recommendation”
Visualization

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Jan 5, 2022

Bad Ideas In Visualization

It’s been a while since I’ve really been able to troll to my heart’s content, so here are some things in information visualization that I suspect are either a) bad, b) useless, or, at the very least, c) not nearly as useful as people tout them to be. I will…

Visualization

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Bad Ideas In Visualization
Bad Ideas In Visualization
Visualization

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Dec 22, 2021

The Clippy-ization of Human-Computer Design

There is a concept in evolutionary biology called carcinization, where groups of totally unrelated decapods will, through the process of convergent evolution, will end up looking like crabs. My understanding of the process (and I should note that “my understanding” of evolutionary biology does not carry me very far in…

Hci

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The Clippy-ization of Human-Computer Design
The Clippy-ization of Human-Computer Design
Hci

12 min read


Nov 12, 2021

Some Criticisms of Tech Criticism

Whatever you do, you’re not going to have complete freedom — you’ll be muzzled in one way or another, but at least you can have some diversity in how you’re muzzled. —Timnit Gebru The title of this post should give you an idea of the base level of cynicism with…

Ethics

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Some Criticisms of Tech Criticism
Some Criticisms of Tech Criticism
Ethics

21 min read

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Michael Correll

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Information Visualization, Data Ethics, Graphical Perception.

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