IEEE VIS 2024 Meetups

VisLies! Meetup

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Thursday 17 October 2024
3:00pm
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Organizers: Kenneth Moreland and Bernice Rogowitz
Contact:
morelandkd@ornl.gov
bernice.e.rogowitz@gmail.com

VisLies! is a yearly event at IEEE VIS. This fun and engaging evening session showcases examples of egregious perceptual, cognitive, and conceptual errors in visualization, presented by members of the Vis community. Examples from our own work, from published papers, and from the internet highlight the many ways the visual representation can misrepresent the underlying phenomena in the data. This is a great opportunity for amusement and for learning, and every year we walk away with a smile on our faces and insights that may one day save the world (!). For more information about VisLies!, or to check out our gallery of annotated examples from past events, please visit our website at http://vislies.org.

Vis4Good Meetup

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Thursday 17 October 2024
3:30pm
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Organizers: Evan Peck
Contact:
evan.peck@colorado.edu

For the last 5 years, Vis4Good (https://vis4good.github.io/ has provided a central venue within the IEEE VIS community for surfacing work that critiques, defines, or explores the impact of data visualization on society in order to build just and equitable futures. Data is an inescapable part of our lives: it guides commerce, government, and technology, and increasingly determines what lives we can (or cannot) live. Data visualization has a special place within this emerging, data-driven, order: as a tool to inform or persuade mass audiences, guide or enlighten the specialist, or give a voice to the unheard. We therefore pose the question: how can visualization, and visualization research, help us build the worlds we want?

A Reproducibility Stamp Initiative for Visualization?

Thursday 17 October 2024
3:15pm
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Organizers: Tobias Isenberg and Julien Tierny
Contact:
tobias.isenberg@inria.fr

The Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI;https://www.replicabilitystamp.org/ has been certifying the reproducibility of papers published in certain graphics-related journals since 2017, and some of these journals also include visualization work (in particular, TVCG and, thus, VIS papers). However, while the GRSI is continuing to extend to new venues (recently SIGGRAPH conference papers), they do not seem to be interested in adding pure visualization venues. We would like to discuss if and how we should react as a visualization community who also wants for their publications to have opportunities to get reproducibility certified.