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Kate Isaacs
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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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uusci.bsky.social
SCI faculty members Amir Arzani, Kate Isaacs (@kisaacs.bsky.social), and Bei Wang Phillips recently received a prestigious national honor: the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Congrats to these rising stars! 🌟 #PECASE @utah.edu
Three SCI Faculty Earn Top National Award for Early Career Scientists and Engineers
www.sci.utah.edu
January 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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noeskasmit.com
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
www.jobbnorge.no
November 29, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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peck.phd
👇 We're building something new... 👇
informationvisions.bsky.social Information Visions Lab @ CU @informationvisions.bsky.social · Nov 24
👋 We're just ramping up our lab that focuses on data equity and access. More soon, but until then...

📊❤️ Our group is growing! PhD apps due Dec. 1st: vis.community

👉 Follow PhD student @fridamudsam.bsky.social & PI @peck.phd

🏔️🦬 Follow our dept @cuboulder.info
PhD Recruitment
evanpeck.github.io
November 24, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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profamandarandles.bsky.social
Check out the full video from our #SC24 Art of HPC submission showing cancer cell transport. Did you check out the mini-art exhibit at the conference? I thought it was a fun new addition.
November 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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dertimgerrits.bsky.social
The 2025 SciVis Contest Data is available!

If you/your team/your students are looking for an exciting visualization challenge (it's about helping scientists develop new, sustainable materials), take a look at the contest data:

sciviscontest2025.github.io

#Visualization #IEEEVIS #SciVis #Contest
November 22, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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peck.phd
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
kisaacs.bsky.social
The Art of HPC at #SC24 houses all kinds of art and data visualizations this year. Come see in B301!

"What's going on in there?" by @cscullyallison.bsky.social , Kevin Menear, & Dmitry Duplyakin delightfully displays the kinds of science being computed on Kestrel.
November 20, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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yalim.bsky.social
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 year Screenshot 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
November 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
kisaacs.bsky.social
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.
November 19, 2024 at 2:24 PM
kisaacs.bsky.social
Halfway to my full set of 6 platonic solids by way of the Utah booth at #SC24 thanks to the cool folks at CHPC.
Photo of three 3D printed objects sitting on the keys of a piano. The middle is a white teapot on a red trapezoidal base. The lid of the teapot has a red capital U for Utah on it. On the left is a flat kit for a six sided die in red and white. On the right is a flat kit for a similar four sided die. In both, the 1 is replaced with a U.
November 19, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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kalealex.bsky.social
I am recruiting a postdoc! The research emphasis is participatory design for decision-making interfaces. Check out the two project descriptions on my website. people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalea/prosp...

The position is through UChicago’s Data Science Institute. datascience.uchicago.edu/research/pos...
DCL
These are active projects in the lab where we are seeking to recruit help.
people.cs.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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cscullyallison.bsky.social
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
October 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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alex-lex.bsky.social
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
October 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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kalealex.bsky.social
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
October 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
kisaacs.bsky.social
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.
October 17, 2024 at 2:35 AM
kisaacs.bsky.social
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.
October 17, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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dertimgerrits.bsky.social
Alright, just had my last presentation at 🌴 IEEE VIS for this year (talked about #DaVE - dave-vis.com ) and while I am very happy for the discussions that are happening in the conference Discord, I cannot wait to meet everyone again in person. Let’s meet in #Vienna!

#ieeevis
DaVE
dave-vis.com
October 16, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
A nice write up of the really impressive showing from University of Utah/SCI at this years #ieeevis! Exciting to be part of this mind bendingly cool group

www.sci.utah.edu/the-institut...
SCI’s Strong Showing at IEEE VIS Includes Top Awards and Organizers
www.sci.utah.edu
October 16, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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jonathanzong.com
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
October 15, 2024 at 9:28 PM
kisaacs.bsky.social
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.
October 16, 2024 at 4:20 AM
kisaacs.bsky.social
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..."
October 16, 2024 at 4:09 AM
kisaacs.bsky.social
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."
October 16, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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nelmqvist.bsky.social
Over the last 11 months since #ieeevis 2023, the VIS 2024 Overall Papers Chairs (OPCs)---Tamara Munzner, Holger Theisel, and I---have been carefully documenting the "Road to VIS 2024" in a series of 11 posts on the @ieeevis.bsky.social website. Find them here: ieeevis.org/year/2024/bl...
Blog
Website for IEEE VIS.
ieeevis.org
October 15, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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mattbrehmer.bsky.social
Join us at the #IEEEVIS Conference Futures panel: Community Opinions on Recent Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities for Hybrid Event Formats

Oct 16 3:30pm EDT

w/ Tim Dwyer, John Alexis Guerra-Gomez, @drpi.bsky.social , Takayuki Itoh, @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social, @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
Join us for the #IEEEVIS Conference Futures panel: Community Opinions on Recent Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities for Hybrid Event Formats IEEE VIS 2024 Oct 16, 2024 – 3:30pm Eastern following the VIS Town Hall Moderated by Matt Brehmer & Narges Mahyar of the VIS Executive Committee (VEC) featuring panelists Tim Dwyer, John Alexis Guerra-Gomez, Petra Isenberg @dr_pi , Takayuki Itoh, Elsie Lee-Robbins @elsieleerobbins, Andrew McNutt @mcnutt
October 14, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
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.
October 14, 2024 at 8:45 PM