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08/08/2023
Heuristics for Supporting Cooperative Dashboard Design
Dashboards are no longer mere static displays of metrics; through functi...
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06/28/2023
Toward a Scalable Census of Dashboard Designs in the Wild: A Case Study with Tableau Public
Dashboards remain ubiquitous artifacts for presenting or reasoning with ...
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03/30/2023
Teru Teru Bōzu: Defensive Raincloud Plots
Univariate visualizations like histograms, rug plots, or box plots provi...
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01/11/2023
Fitting Bell Curves to Data Distributions using Visualization
Idealized probability distributions, such as normal or other curves, lie...
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08/25/2022
Are We Making Progress In Visualization Research?
In this work, I use a survey of senior visualization researchers and thi...
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07/15/2022
OSCAR: A Semantic-based Data Binning Approach
Binning is applied to categorize data values or to see distributions of ...
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02/02/2022
Recommendations for Visualization Recommendations: Exploring Preferences and Priorities in Public Health
The promise of visualization recommendation systems is that analysts wil...
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09/23/2021
Towards a Theory of Bullshit Visualization
In this unhinged rant, I lay out my suspicion that a lot of visualizatio...
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09/03/2021
Illegible Semantics: Exploring the Design Space of Metal Logos
The logos of metal bands can be by turns gaudy, uncouth, or nearly illeg...
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06/28/2021
Untidy Data: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tables
Working with data in table form is usually considered a preparatory and ...
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01/12/2021
Vis Ex Machina: An Analysis of Trust in Human versus Algorithmically Generated Visualization Recommendations
More visualization systems are simplifying the data analysis process by ...
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01/06/2021
User Ex Machina : Simulation as a Design Probe in Human-in-the-Loop Text Analytics
Topic models are widely used analysis techniques for clustering document...
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08/25/2020
Why Shouldn't All Charts Be Scatter Plots? Beyond Precision-Driven Visualizations
A central tenet of information visualization research and practice is th...
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08/25/2020
What Do We Actually Learn from Evaluations in the "Heroic Era" of Visualization?
We often point to the relative increase in the amount and sophistication...
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01/08/2020
Surfacing Visualization Mirages
Dirty data and deceptive design practices can undermine, invert, or inva...
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07/03/2019
Truncating the Y-Axis: Threat or Menace?
Bar charts with y-axes that don't begin at zero can visually exaggerate ...
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11/18/2018