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Andrew McNutt
@mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
640 followers 280 following 130 posts
Professing at University of Utah
vis/hci/programming interfaces
(He/his)
http://mcnutt.in/
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anamarasovic.bsky.social
𝙒𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙮 𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨!

KSoC: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190... (AI broadly)

Education + AI:
- utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/189...
- utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190...

Computer Vision:
- utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/183...
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
This work is so cool
gicentre.bsky.social gicentre.bsky.social @gicentre.bsky.social · 5d
Responsive Visualization Design
@sarahschoettler.com , Jason Dykes, @jwolondon.bsky.social Uta Hinrichs, and Benjamin Bach - View Landscapes as a means of visualizing responsive visualization rules and implications in Constraint-Based Breakpoints at #IEEEVIS bit.ly/47Ly6Qk @ieeevis.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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jwolondon.bsky.social
Such a disappointing start to #ieeevis 2025 for us remote attendees. No live streaming so best we get is a vicarious experience of a discord channel discussing details we cannot see.

This is a major step backward in an era where travel options are constrained both environmentally and politically.
November 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Reposted by Andrew McNutt
paleojim.bsky.social
As someone who has worked hard to bring economic benefit to the state of Utah as it preserves one of the most complete fossil bearing rock sequences especially in the world through bringing conference to Utah and developing tourism & educational opportunities; this is really depressing news!
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Andrew McNutt
uusci.bsky.social
SCI faculty, staff, & students are heading to the #ieeevis conference in Vienna this weekend, & they’re bringing scarily good research 👻. They'll be celebrating 3 awards—best paper, honorable mention, & Test of Time—and contributing in lots of other ways: sci.utah.edu/vis-2025/

@ieeevis.bsky.social
SCI’s Expansive Presence at IEEE VIS 2025 Includes Best Paper and Test of Time Awards - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Students, faculty and staff from the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah have long played a vital role in shaping IEEE VIS, the top conference for visualization ...
sci.utah.edu
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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dilshadurrahman.bsky.social
(1/4) 📢 [New #IEEEVIS2025 paper]: #AnnoGram : An Annotative Grammar of Graphics Extension

We'll present #AnnoGram at #IEEEVIS2025 in Vienna🇦🇹
🗓 Date: Thu Nov 6
⏰ Time: 9:30–10:45 AM CET
🧩 Session: Workflows & Infrastructure

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04236
October 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
wait i take it back, some how the osf ui update has now de-graded so that is both slower and worse designed, ooofta
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 28d
osf ui refresh makes browsing faster and less annoying! hell yea
cos.io Center for Open Science @cos.io · Oct 11
🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design.

We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.
October 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
Apparently red delicious really was delicious at one point, but has since become awful due to market effects

www.hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyper...
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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jonathanzong.com
Charts and diagrams use visual structure to convey meaning. For example, spacing and alignment groups data, spatial proximity links labels to elements. But this visual structure is typically invisible to screen readers.

Introducing Benthic, new research at #ASSETS2025

vis.mit.edu/pubs/benthic/
Benthic: Perceptually Congruent Structures for Accessible Charts and Diagrams | MIT Visualization Group
Graphical representations—such as charts and diagrams—have a visual structure that communicates the relationship between visual elements. For instance, we might consider two elements to be connected w...
vis.mit.edu
October 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Reposted by Andrew McNutt
amykzhang.bsky.social
🌟Sharing our upcoming paper at #ieeevis! @lauragarrison.bsky.social @jodiejenkinson.bsky.social & I apply deconstruction theory to our interviews with visual data journalists to trace implicit+historic beliefs of objectivity/subjectivity & humanism/mechanism in #datavis 📊

arxiv.org/abs/2507.12377
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
University of Utah/SCI is hiring in (data) vis this year! It's an open rank position! Come do cool vis work in the land of mountains and canyons

utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/188...

#ieeevis
Assistant/Associate/Professor in The Kahlert School of Computing
utah.peopleadmin.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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dynamicaspects.org
Reposting — looks like organisers uploaded a new video with better audio and different timings. Authoring Tools for Transparent Climate Reporting, presented at
@propl.dev 2025: youtu.be/IIRJeleXeuU?...
@iccscambridge.bsky.social
[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Peony NE - PROPL (Oct 13th)
YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Reposted by Andrew McNutt
alark.bsky.social
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)
Home | ReVISit
reVISit: Reproducible and Powerful Visualization User Studies
revisit.dev
October 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
osf ui refresh makes browsing faster and less annoying! hell yea
cos.io Center for Open Science @cos.io · Oct 11
🟢 OSF is back online with a refreshed design.

We’ve rolled out the updated OSF design, making it faster, easier to navigate, and ready for future improvements. Log in, explore the new experience, and see what’s changed: osf.io.
October 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
The accepted papers list for alt.vis is now out! IMO it's one of the best (if not the best) year of alt.vis yet. We got it all: games, religion, alchemy, critiques, and more!!

ugh! such an exciting set of papers

altvis.github.io
alt.VIS
A half-day workshop at IEEE VIS 2025
altvis.github.io
October 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
this looks sick
mariov.ch Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · Oct 8
Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW!

pocketboss.ch 📊 💬

A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.​io.
October 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reposted by Andrew McNutt
adwojcik.bsky.social
I’m looking for an easy-to-use survey platform to replace Qualtrics. The prices have recently skyrocketed, and it seems we can no longer justify the cost.
October 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reposted by Andrew McNutt
dynamicaspects.org
Language-Based Dependency-Tracking for Explorables, presented at LIVE 2025. Joint work with Joe Bond, Cristina David, @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social and Alfonso Piscitelli. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gds8...
LIVE 2025 - Language-Based Dependency-Tracking for Explorables
YouTube video by The LIVE Workshop
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Reposted by Andrew McNutt
matthew.wiki
Unreasonably excited to present THEORY IS SHAPES at alt.vis this November! Read on to find out what the "BLT Sandwich Theory of Visualization Consumption" (and other shape-based shenanigans) can teach us about theorycrafting in research 🥪🧲🧊♾️
mjskay.com Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · Oct 9
to appear at #alt.vis 2025: THEORY IS SHAPES

sure "theory figures" are great, but @matthew.wiki, @maryamhed.bsky.social, me, and Carolina Nobre wonder: why always a 2D plane or a flowchart? why not icebergs, horseshoes, Möbius strips, or BLT sandwiches?
arxiv.org/abs/2510.01382

#ieeevis #hci
Abstract and teaser figure of the paper "Theory is Shapes" by Matthew Varona, Maryam Hedayati, Matthew Kay, and Carolina Nobre. The teaser figure is an "iceberg" theory figure, showing four levels: the tip of the iceberg, containing a nested set diagram and a Cartesian plane. The next level down (just under the water) has a complicated flow charts and a combination flow chart and matrix. The next level down has the iceberg figure itself and a horseshoe. The final level contains a Möbius strip and a BLT sandwich. The abstract reads: "Theory figures" are a staple of theoretical visualization research. Common shapes such as Cartesian planes and flowcharts can be used not only to explain conceptual contributions, but to think through and refine the contribution itself. Yet, theory figures tend to be limited to a set of standard shapes, limiting the creative and expressive potential of visualization theory. In this work, we explore how the shapes used in theory figures afford different understandings and explanations of their underlying phenomena. We speculate on the value of visualizing theories using more expressive configurations, such as icebergs, horseshoes, Möbius strips, and BLT sandwiches. By reflecting on figure-making's generative role in the practice of theorizing, we conclude that theory is, in fact, shapes.
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
They massacred my boy
dragom.bsky.social marnix! @dragom.bsky.social · Oct 3
WHY DID THEY GENTRIFY THE AUDACITY LOGO
the regular audacity logo on the left (a waveform between two headphones) and the REAL NEW audacity logo on the right (flat style red headphones, where one of the headphones is a half-circle to fit with the rest of musehub's design Thing. It simultaneously looks extremely generic and like a sperm cell is flying out of a semicircle)
October 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM
mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
Funny to see one of my favorite of this years alt vis papers summarized by (what appears to be) a slop machine
getnews-me.bsky.social GetNews.me @getnews-me.bsky.social · Oct 2
A preprint proposes treating visualizations as infrastructure, noting NASA Mission Control dashboards as continuous, background tools. It was accepted to the alt.vis track of IEEE VIS 2025. Read more: https://getnews.me/visualization-research-shifts-focus-to-background-roles/ #visualization #ieeevis
Visualization Research Shifts Focus to Background Roles
October 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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justinfalcone.com
A periodic table of "nothing" values in computers
January 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reposted by Andrew McNutt
tomasp.net
I'm at #uist2025 presenting our new work with @jonathoda.bsky.social!

𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗸 is a computational substrate for end-user programming that makes it easy to implement programming experiences like programming by demonstration, collaborative editing and more!

tomasp.net/academic/pap...
September 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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room40.bsky.social
A beautiful text on Steve Roden and the nature of archive.
ON MIND: Steve Roden, An Archive, An Unreliable Narrator
The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, showing innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines. Our programs range from dance, music, performance, and th...
thekitchen.org
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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galaxykate.bsky.social
2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!

Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)
!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students.   We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…...
!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students.   We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept ...
www.linkedin.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM