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

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We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities…

At LitHub today @kimkelly.bsky.social has a great piece on the Do’s and Don’t’s of Mutual Aid as well as some reading recs:

Waiting for CHI results like. . .

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....

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.

Reposting to keep track of for later

Comic titled Curve Fitting Methods and the messages they send

Good morning #episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪

Credit: @xkcd.com

I second this. I'm not sure the value of showing responses on a continuum like this. Since the granularity of the reported income on the x-axis is so coarse why not just bin the responses?

An stylized image of a young black woman reading a book in a field. She is surrounded by cute gelatinous creatures. A stream of multicolored smoke drifts up from the page and merges with her hair.

A whimsical illustration I did a few weeks back. I had a lot of fun rendering the jelly blobbies. Still trying to nail down a style I'm super happy with.

#art #digitalart #illustration #whimsical #reading #fantasy #digitalpainting

Painting of a seated black woman wearing a white top with long flowing sleeves and white pants. She is wearing a gold necklace and looking to the right side of the image.

Photograph of a seated black woman wearing a white top with long flowing sleeves and white pants. She is wearing a gold necklace and looking to the right side of the image.

Wanted to inaugurate this new acct with one of my favorite studies I did a year ago or so. It's not perfect but taught me a lot about rendering fabric especially. Done in Photoshop. #art #digitalart #painting #study #digitalpainting