Lane Harrison
@laneh.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Computer Science at WPI— we study data visualization
Incredible effort behind this, more options for VIS!
IEEE VIS@ieeevis.bsky.social · 2mo ago📢 Announcing Satellite Events in France and China 🌍 Connect through live-streamed sessions, recorded content, local networking, and selected remote presentation opportunities linked to the main conference in Boston. Learn more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDqm...
I hear reVISit works pretty well for replication studies! (But folks should submit regardless— big fan of the VISxVISION community and papers 👁️ 📊)
Andrew McNutt@mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 2mo agoSomething cool: at IEEE VIS this year the VIS X Vision workshop (visxvision.com/vis-2026/) has a track for replications of prior studies Even cooler: they suggest using revisit (revisit.dev) as the platform for those replications. If yr revisit curious, this is a special opportunity to try it out
What are your favorite examples for people using #datavis to tell about aspects/parts/events of their lives?
(would watch a 30-minute news segment on this sort of analysis...)
Matthew Kay@mjskay.com · 9mo agoThe font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD Note "The" is not kerned correctly (see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Find out what happens when “A Priest, a Rabbi, and an Atheist Walk Into an Error Bar 🍸”. Join @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy & @laneh.bsky.social for their religious meditations on uncertainty visualization at alt.VIS, Sunday 9 AM - 12:30 PM! #ieeevis #uncertaintyvis arxiv.org/abs/2509.08213
Revisit by @laneh.bsky.social and team is an excellent option. It requires some configuration and setup, but it works beautifully and all your data stays on your server. (revisit.dev)
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here's a preprint of the unhinged paper i wrote with @lane we stop just short of saying that the unthinking use of frequentist statistics puts your very soul at hazard https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08213
The reVISit team will be hosting an open hackathon at TU Graz in Austria, immediately after IEEE VIS from Monday November 10 to Wednesday November 13. Anyone interested in contributing to reVISit is invited to participate!
spent a chunk of today making biblically accurate error bars
Super love seeing regional datavis events making a comeback (and happy to be in town!) ->
Katy Williams@kt-williams.bsky.social · last yr.The first-ever meeting of #VIS-SEA is underway! (VIS South EAst)
Going to #CHI2025 in Japan? Interested in running user studies? Sign up for our virtual CHI 2025 course that teaches you how to use reVISit, a new, open-source user study tool reducing the tedium of study design. Come learn through some practical examples. cvent.me/g5mx2w revisit.dev
Tactile charts are an important tool for conveying data to blind and low vision people via embossed paper. However, tactile charts require high levels of time and expertise to design. Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen news.mit.edu/2025/making-...
A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers
Designed to help blind and low-vision readers understand graphics, the “Tactile Vega-Lite” system from MIT CSAIL converts data into a standard visual graph and a tactile chart. Accessibility standards...
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behold the CONNECTED SPLATTERPIE kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair
Matthew Kay@mjskay.com · last yr.it just occurred to me the obvious next step here is a connected scatterpie
1) Cool VIS study, 2) Help our replication effort! ->
Alexander Lex@alex-lex.bsky.social · last yr.How can we use black-and-white patterns in visualization? If you have visualization design experience, we’d love your input! We’re running a short study (less than 20 minutes) where you’ll experiment with designing patterns for a chart. Please participate here revisit.dev/replication-... Thank you!
"…there’s one nut we have not been able to crack: anchoring bespoke data visualization as a full fledged profession in corporate settings." Re-reading this article from 2017 (medium.com/visualizing-...), I wonder — where are we at 8 years on?
There be dragons: dataviz in the industry
I started being serious about data visualization around 2005, when the field was still pretty niche and people like Martin Wattenberg, Ben…
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Slightly annoying when a paper describing an experiment doesn't include a screenshot of the actual task participants performed. (I wrote the paper in question 🫠...)
Cool possibilities for interaction studies ->
Alexander Lex@alex-lex.bsky.social · last yr.reVISit 2.0 Highlight: reVISit now supports Vega and Vega-Lite stimuli. You have the freedom to plug in Vega JSON configurations inline, or as a file. You can leverage interaction and reVISit's provenance tracking and interaction replay feature as well, with no extra effort. revisit.dev #datavis
This ggplot chart was generated without any theming support, *at all*.
Carlos Scheidegger@cscheid.net · last yr.I know the world is falling apart. But do you know that linear algebra _IS MAGIC_?
Any freelance Svelte/data visualization developers among my followers? Looking for someone with some availability, starting in a couple of months
ReVISit 2.0 (revisit.dev) reached several exciting milestones recently: 📁 You can now define an entire experiment in a single file— from trial data, stimuli (visualizations and interactions, thanks to Vega-Altair), study blocks/sequences and randomization, questionnaires, etc.
Crowdsourced Think-aloud Studies w/ full interaction provenance+rehydration, auto voice transcription, and correlation between timelines. That plus a pile of new features and capabilities in the reVISit 2.0 release. Check it out & let us know what you think!
Alexander Lex@alex-lex.bsky.social · 2y agoWe’re released reVISit 2.0, the latest version of our open user study platform! There are a LOT of awesome new things in this release that will not only make it easier to run your user study for #ieeevis, but give you new analysis capabilities. #datavis www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjP3...
More LLM reflections I think a useful model is "everything that in-house counsel is not" In-house counsel doesn't know how to say yes to you; they're entirely made of blood-soaked wisdom. LLMs are excitable improv comedy partners with more memory than wisdom; they don't know how to say no to you.
Still buzzing about the progress the team has made on reVISit over this workshop. Looking forward to sharing new features for creating & instrumenting vis experiments in our upcoming 2.0 release 👀
Alexander Lex@alex-lex.bsky.social · 2y agoWe introduced folks a Georgia Tech to revisit.dev yesterday in a workshop. Check out our slides to learn more about how to run a user study with revisit! #datavis sci.utah.edu/~vdl/talks/2... sci.utah.edu/~vdl/talks/2...
does anybody have pointers for good papers/blog posts (other than @tamara process&pitfalls + dsm papers, which we [gratefully!] use already) on "how to teach people to write academic hci/vis research papers that don't suck"?
#genuary7 „Use software that is not intended to create art or images.“ Did you know that there's tons of one-color videos like "4 Hours of Red" on YouTube? And that you can control browser windows using AppleScript? And that none of these things are intended to create art? #genuary2025 #genuary
End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁 https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?
