Sunday

• VAST Challenge - The Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge is an annual contest with the goal of advancing the field of visual analytics through competition. VAST Challenge problems provide researchers with realistic tasks and data sets for evaluating their software, as well as an opportunity to advance the field by solving more complex problems.

• Tutorial - Visualization Analysis and Design

• Tutorial - Applying Color Theory to VIS

• Tutorial - Sketching Designs for Data Visualization using the Five Design-Sheet Methodology

• Workshop - AVID: Advancing Visualization Inclusion and Diversity

Monday

• Workshop - Vis in Practice: Visualization Solutions in the Wild - Providing an opportunity for visualization practitioners and researchers to meet and share experiences, insights, and ideas in applying the latest visualization and visual analytics research to real world problems.

• Discovery Jam - A live hackathon to scientific data discovery. You’ll leave the workshop with skills for communicating with scientists, approaches to cross-disciplinary collaboration, and new ideas to pursue further.

• Tutorial - Large-scale Web-based Visual Analytics Made Easy

Tuesday

• VIS Opening & Awards - 8:00am-10:30am, Room: 301-CD

• VIS Keynote Address - Analytics Inspired Visualization: a Holistic In-situ Scientific Workflow at Extreme Scale - 10:50am-11:50am, Room: 301-CD

• Panel - VIP - Increasing the Impact of Visualization Research - 2:00pm-3:40pm, Room 101-ABC

• Supporters Presentations - 4:15pm-5:55pm, Room: 101-ABC

• Supporters Exhibition - all day, Room: 301-AB

Wednesday

• Supporters Exhibition- all day, Room: 301-AB

• Posters + Networking + Asynchronous Job Fair - 5:15pm-7:00pm, Room: 301-AB

Thursday

• Supporters Exhibition- all day, Room: 301-AB

Friday

• Paper Session - Evaluation - 8:30am-10:10am, 105-ABC
  • Imagining Replications: Graphical Prediction & Discrete Visualizations Improve Recall & Estimation of Effect Uncertainty (** Honourable Mention for Best Paper **)
  • A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies on Data Glyphs
  • The Hologram in My Hand: How Effective is Interactive Exploration of 3D Visualizations in Immersive Tangible Augmented Reality?
  • Evaluating Cartogram Effectiveness
  • Keeping Multiple Views Consistent: Constraints, Validations and Exceptions in Visualization Authoring
• VIS Capstone Address - Data Humanism - The Revolution will be Visualized - 10:30am-11:30am, Room: Phoenix Grand Hyatt Ballroom ABCD

Make sure to also check out the full program of the conference which can be found here: http://ieeevis.org/. Depending on your specific domain and current data analysis challenges you will likely find more interesting events there!