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Kate Isaacs

@kisaacs.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof. Kahlert School of Computing & SCI Institute, The University of Utah. Data Visualization. HPC. She/Her. https://kisaacs.github.io

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Noeska Smit@noeskasmit.com · 2y ago

Speaking of Bergen, ever considered moving to Norway? We have a job opening for a Tenured Associate or full Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization 📊! I can add that as a tenured associate professor there is a clear path towards promotion to full professor. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Professor / Associate Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization (271566) | University of Bergen

Job title: Professor / Associate Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization (271566), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

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Jason Yalim@yalim.bsky.social · 2y ago

NASA’s Nicky Fox is presenting an enchanting plenary for #SC24. The high-impact applications she’s highlighting from Earth’s weather to aerodynamics to #CFD to medicine to space flight to space weather and more all depend on 🧪 and #HPC!

NASA’s Nicky Fox delivering an incredible plenary for #SC24. Here she is discussing monitoring the uncontrolled wildfires in Pacific states this yearScreenshot from a video of NASA’s Nicky Fox (pictured on stage, to the right) presenting gorgeous rotor flow for better understanding the aerodynamics of smaller aircraft like drones. Also pictured is the SC24 sign-language translator doing an excellent job. Visualization of a parachute inflation simulation, with SC24 plenary speaker, NASA’s Nicky Fox, pictured to the right. Her excellent sign-language interpreter is pictured to the left.SC24’s plenary speaker, NASA’s Nicky Fox, presenting a coronal mass ejection event from Sep. 29, as imaged by the GOES-19 satellite
Kate Isaacs@kisaacs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday at ProTools, Shilpika from Argonne presented their system for finding patterns in regularly sampled data about their machines, too much to store without this kind of analysis along the way, including machine visualizations in Jupyter to examine. What more HPC vis will today bring? #SC24

Photo of slide from Shilpika's talk at ProTools24. It shows a D3js visualization in a Jupyter notebook of the load on the Theta supercomputer. Day time spike (top) versus regular load in the evening, color versus baseline. A scatter chart shows temperature variations.
Connor@cscullyallison.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here is the ARXIV link to the paper if anyone is interested in reading it in full. arxiv.org/abs/2205.04557 Also, please reach out to me if you have any questions about the work, I’d love to chat.

Design Concerns for Integrated Scripting and Interactive Visualization in Notebook Environments

Interactive visualization can support fluid exploration but is often limited to predetermined tasks. Scripting can support a vast range of queries but may be more cumbersome for free-form exploration....

arxiv.org

Alexander Lex@alex-lex.bsky.social · 2y ago

UpSet won the #ieeevis InfoVis 10-year test of time award 🎉. Thanks to @ngehlenborg.bsky.social @henstr.bsky.social Romain Vuillemot, and Hanspeter Pfister for being an awesome team to work with on this. I wrote up my reflections on what made UpSet successful: vdl.sci.utah.edu/blog/2024/10...

Reflections on UpSet

This blog post was triggered by UpSet winning the 10-year Test of Time Award at IEEE VIS. In this post, I reflect on how UpSet came about, and what made it successful.

vdl.sci.utah.edu

Alex Kale@kalealex.bsky.social · 2y ago

I was super excited to present my work on vis and preference elicitation for participatory budgeting yesterday at IEEE VIS. arxiv.org/abs/2407.20103 Lots more work to do in public-facing vis applications and collective decision-making!

What Can Interactive Visualization do for Participatory Budgeting in Chicago?

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic approach to allocating municipal spending that has been adopted in many places in recent years, including in Chicago. Current PB voting resembles a ballot ...

arxiv.org

Kate Isaacs@kisaacs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Too many computing problems to vis, not enough time!

 Thursday #ieeevis, fourth session, *Computer Architecture* Prof. Yifan Sun presents a domain-expert led design study!

 Three chip experts, with some help from me, designed an interactive vis to analyze simulations of new architecture ideas:

Overivew of Vis4Mesh system. There are four linked views. One shows a node-link diagram indicating a mesh network on the chip. Links are drawn in both directions and color indicates how congested the computer component is. Another panel shows an icicle timeline indicating fine-grained behavior within a selected component. The third panel is a stacked bar chart with an aligned pez chart shows both total network traffic and the most congested link. The fourth has controls for filtering the kinds of network traffic.
Kate Isaacs@kisaacs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thursday #ieeevis, first session, Sayef Azad Sakin is presenting "A Literature-based Visualization Task Taxonomy for Gantt Charts," in the "Short Papers: Perception “& Representation” session!

 We collect visualization tasks implemented by Gantt charts:

Depiction of a Gantt chart. There are two axes, "Time" in horizontal and "Track" in vertical. The legend shows that rectangles indicate events and arrows indicate dependencies. This example has three discrete rows of rectangles. Each rectangle has a different length and position in Time, but a fixed height and one of three fixed Track positions. Arrows point between boxes, crossing between different tracks.
jonathan zong@jonathanzong.com · 2y ago

interested in accessibility, visualization, and data ethics? i'm recruiting phd students to join the data & design group at cu boulder! we're building a collaborative space for people to grow into interdisciplinary researchers of technology and society. #ieeevis data-and-design.org/recruiting

Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2025

We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.

data-and-design.org

Kate Isaacs@kisaacs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wednesday #ieeevis, fourth session, Connor Scully-Allison is presenting “Design Concerns for Integrated Scripting and Interactive Visualization in Notebook Environments,” in the Scripts, Notebooks, and Provenance session! We consider whether to support tasks via scripting or visualization:

Diagram showing how to select whether a task should be supported by visualization or scripting (or both) based on the frequency of the task and the specificity (e.g., complexity, concreteness) of the task. Highly specific and infrequent tasks are better suited to scripting. Low specificity tasks done frequently are better suited to visualization. However, there's a large overlap where either could support and there are certain kinds of tasks which are suited predominantly to one or the other despite frequency or complexity. For example, we found network structure tasks strongly suited to visualization for our audience.
Kate Isaacs@kisaacs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Look here! Wednesday #ieeevis, third session, Chang Han is presenting “A Deixis-Centered Approach for Documenting Remote Synchronous Communication around Data Visualizations,” in the Collaboration & Communication session! We capture cursor gestures made in online collaborative meetings around data:

A diagram showing two people using laptops, Alice and Bob. Between them is a scatter plot. On top of the scatter plot, there is a cursor labeled "Alice" that has drawn a circle around a cluster of points. Alice also has a word bubble where she is saying "Look at this cluster here. I think it is..."
Kate Isaacs@kisaacs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wednesday #ieeevis, first session, Chang Han is presenting "An Overview + Detail Layout for Visualizing Compound Graphs," in the "Short Papers: Graph, Hierarchy and Multidimensional" session!

 Our layout arranges structure representations of multiple levels of a hierarchical network at once:

Two network layouts of a compound graph. One, labeled focus + context shows each level contained in the other. The inner levels have elements close to each other but the outer levels are stretched around them. The other, labeled overview + detail, shows each level drawn in the same style next to each other, organized as a tree with links from high level to low level showing one is the expansion of the other. The bottom of the tree shows the same layout as the inner level of the containment version. However, other nodes in the tree show connections between the compound elements with greater proximity. The image is titled "Layout with both Overview and Detail."
Andrew McNutt@mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm excited to announce the release of our tool Color Buddy! It’s a vis color palette designer built on good color science (incl. spaces like LAB/OKLCH) AND it has modern favs like direct manip & AI fiddles. Spicier: it checks your palette (for a11y/design/etc issues) as you go!

A screenshot of our application for color palette editing. On the left side is a scatter plot with dots that can be dragged and dropped, on the right hand side are a collection of evaluation rules for that palette showing if the palette passed or failed those rules.
IEEE VIS@ieeevis.org · 2y ago

🎉 IEEE VIS is on Bluesky! Please give us a follow for updates about the world's top venue for advances in data visualization and visual analytics.

Devin Lange@devlange.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀 Big update to VisPubs ( and I'm not just talking about the new logo 🦉)! You can now filter visualization publications by year, venue, awards, and resources! Also, the URL has moved to vispubs.com, and I've added a dark mode for all you night owls 🦉.

User interface of vispubs showing different filters applied. As filters are applied the paper list and counts update dynamically. Papers are filtered to 2019 and earlier; InfoVis, SciVis, and VAST; Best Paper and Honorable Mention; and with an open source Paper linked, resulting in 12 papers out of the original thousands.