Some rough design guidelines* 1. Match effectiveness with importance 2. Avoid ambiguity 3. Locality is king / eyes beat memory 4. Establish viewing order 5. Layer, layer, layer 6. When in doubt, grid 7. Treat visual attributes like adjectives * These guidelines are drawn largely from my experience + personal preferences + the literature. Design is messy, these are not perfect, others will disagree with me, etc. Caveat emptor.

These are the design guidelines I teach. From halfway through this deck: www.mjskay.com/presentation...

These days (for academic vis) I'd add "ensure natural visual operations correspond to meaningful operations in data space". Need to make slides for that.

alt.VIS A half-day workshop at IEEE VIS 2023

It's happening again!! alt.VIS is returning to #IEEEVIS for another year of creativity, criticality, and alterity! Bring us your hot takes, bring us your work that falls outside of mainstream academic vis, bring us your weird stuff!!

Deadline is August 1st

altvis.github.io

1/2 Graag jullie meedenken en netwerkbereik om mij aan een nieuwe opdracht te helpen:
Ik werk als data illustrator en zet cijfers en andere gegevens in mooie beelden om, van staafdiagram tot datakunst.
email info@studioterp.nl
Repost is fijn :-)

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.

Really enjoyed the course Modern-Day oracles or Bullshit Machines - How to thrive in a ChatGPT world developed by @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social. I am considering using it in my Visual Data Science course next time I teach it :) 10/10, do recommend! thebullshitmachines.com

🎈 🎓 We are hiring a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Télécom Paris ! 🧪

Come and work with us ! 🎈
The deadline is really soon ... 🚀

More infos here : diva.telecom-paristech.fr/jobs/prof-20...

#chi2025 #HCI #visualisation #hiring #CHI #fabrication #Design #wearable #mobile #Programming

Is it even legal to rebrand #stroopwafels as maple waffles and sell them as a Canadian souvenir without credit? Awesome to have thoughtful colleagues bring back delicious treats from work trips though! Thanks @leif-oltedal.bsky.social !

We are thrilled to announce that VCBM 2025 will come back to TUDelft in the Netherlands.

We are particularly happy to share that all accepted full papers will be published in Computers and Graphics this year.

For full details on submission types and scope, please check our website at www.vcbm.org.

NY Times graphic. Conventional computer: One task starts after another completes AI computing: tasks are divided into small parts and happen at the same time.

The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.

Fantastic must read article by @moritzstefaner.bsky.social on the crisis (or not) in #dataviz Very well articulated and resonates deeply with me: truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis...

Sounds like it could lead to interesting interdisciplinary research, but no, unfortunately visualization only af this time :)

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

Looking for a change of scenery? We welcome applications to our Associate Professor or full Professor (depending on qualifications) position in Visualization/Visual Data Science at the University of Bergen, Norway, until February 28th! Come work with us :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Are you a "data fiber artist" (representing data through knitting, crocheting, embroidery, sewing, weaving, etc.)? Please help my PhD student Sydney collect information about this fascinating practice for her thesis with this survey: skpurdue.github.io/DataFiberArts/.

Please repost! Thx!

Horrifying story of LLM content being retroactively added to physicsforums, as if it had been posted by the original authors.

hallofdreams.org/posts/physic...

The 2024 to 2025 transition post Welcome to the year 2025! We are all still waiting for our flying cars, but if you don’t like the indistinguishable-from-human talking AIs you got instead, you can have this traditional yearly transit...

Instead of a pure #retrospective, I've been writing a quite personal "year transition #blog post" every year for a few years now. The latest one has just been published!

cpbotha.net/2025/01/19/t...

#running #health #diet #obsidian #emacs #mindfulness #aging

Knitting my kid a pair of felted mittens in leftover yarn only to run out of leftover yarn midway 😅 The solution is of course to shop for more yarn which will turn into leftover yarn. A vicious cycle I can't get mad about! ☺️ 🧶 #knitting #raumavams

Come work with us!

Awesome! I moved here from the Netherlands 8 years ago and never looked back either :) (well of course for family visits!). Great that she is enjoying Bergen life too!

Hahaha, the form is quite brutal! Let me know if we can rekindle your interests :D

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

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...

Sunrise sky gradient with black tree silhouettes

A view on Ulriken colored by the sunset

When it is not raining, Bergen is really something special ☺️ This was just on my way to and from work.

So I had a side project idea a while ago, but great news everyone! Other people have done it and they have done a better job than I ever could! Over on the Pudding, they have a beautiful interactive data story on the use of Lena over time. 📊

Wow! This is fantastic and they did a far better job than I ever would. Thanks a lot for sharing!

📊 vs. 🥧

I made a tiny teaching tool to help me interactively demo + share differences between 📊 and 🥧

Play: I find that tinkering with data + visuals in class reinforces understanding far more than slides or readings

Save + share: Copy the url to link the current data

👉 barvpie.netlify.app

Thanks a lot, will look into it!

Random side project idea, I would love to visualize the frequency of Lena image use in scientific publications over time, but no idea how to get the data... Does Google Scholar support image search?🤔📊

Thanks for your awesome work! I am teaching Computer Graphics in Bergen, Norway, this semester together with @lauragarrison.bsky.social and we used this in our course, watching part of it in class <3. Students loved it too!

The Continuity of Splines YouTube video by Freya Holmér

Wanted to share this amazing video if you are teaching or want to learn about splines by @freya.bsky.social ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPP...

a stained microscopy section through the human eye

Several years ago I collaborated with Prof Huib Simonsz (then at Erasmus MC Rotterdam), Ben Willekens, Gijsbert Hötte et al. to scan, register and publish many hundreds of #microscopy sections of the human #eye.

View the registered slices:
visible-orbit.org/the-collecti...
(much more info at site)

I think with Twitter lists you are following individual accounts part of that lists (like the Bluesky starterpacks). With feeds it is possible to feature only specific posts, for example, this one requires the account to be on a list and then the post to have this emoticon: 📊. As I understand them!

Discovering feeds! Just found this great data visualization one! bsky.app/profile/did:... Any other recommendations?