InfoVis Group

UBC InfoVis @ IEEE VIS 2023 [10/2023]
Tamara Munzner (alongside group alumni Matthew Brehmer) is celebrating another Test of Time award for the 2013 paper on abstract visualization tasks. Tamara has been serving as an Overall Papers Chair for VIS23, will present a tutorial on Visualization Analysis and Design, and give a keynote talk at VDS. She was recently named an IEEE Fellow. She is co-editor of the AK Peters Visualization book series with CRC/Routledge, which will have both a physical table at the conference and a virtual bookstore.
PhD student Francis Nguyen is co-author of honorable mention VIS23 paper Average Estimates in Line Graphs are Biased Towards Areas of Higher Variability and will also attend in person, say hello to him!
Since our last in-person party in 2019, Jürgen Bernard has become an assistant professor at Zurich, and Charles Berret has joined Miriah Meyer for a postdoc at Linköping. Two PhD students finished: Zipeng Liu is now a Beihang prof, and Michael Oppermann has joined Vienna’s Virtual Identity.
The West Coast Party returns Tue night and we're co-hosting: https://web.uvic.ca/~cperin/west-coast-party-23/

UBC InfoVis @ CHI '23 [5/2023]
Steve Kasica is presenting Dirty Data in the Newsroom: Comparing Data Preparation in Journalism and Data Science.

Farewell to Sam! [4/2023]
Congratulations to Sam Fraser for graduating from his BSc program! He now joins Datadog in New York as a software developer.

UBC InfoVis @ IEEE VIS 2022 [10/2022]
Michael Sedlmair, Miriah Meyer, and Tamara Munzner are celebrating a Test of Time award for their 2012 paper titled Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks.
Mara Solen is presenting Scoping the Future of Visualization Literacy: A Review at the VisComm workshop.

Welcome Matt, Ryan, and Sam! [9/2022]
Matt Oddo and Ryan Smith join the group in the PhD program. Sam Fraser joins as an undergraduate research assistant.

Farewell to Charles! [9/2022]
Congratulations to Charles Berret for completing his post-doc! He now joins Miriah Meyer in Linköping, Sweden as a post-doc.

Visualizing Graph Neural Networks with CorGIE: Corresponding a Graph to Its Embedding [2/2022]
by Zipeng Liu, Yang Wang, Jürgen Bernard, and Tamara Munzner has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) and will be also presented at IEEE VIS 2022.
[pre-print PDF]

UBC InfoVis @ IEEE VIS 2021 [10/2021]
At IEEE VIS 2021, Michael Oppermann will present the full paper VizSnippets: Compressing Visualization Bundles Into Representative Previews for Browsing Visualization Collections, awarded best paper honorable mention [Wed S1]. He will also present the short paper TimeElide: Visual Analysis of Non-Contiguous Time Series Slices [Thu S2].
Recent PhD graduate Madison Elliott is co-organizer of the Workshop: On Novel Directions in Vision Science and Visualization Research [Mon S1-S2].
Tamara Munzner will be on the panel Reflecting on Visualization History to Drive Future Innovation [Thu S1]. Tamara will also offer her tutorial on Visualization Analysis and Design [Sun fullday]; available on youtube is the full playlist of 6 hrs of video lectures.
Also, stay tuned for West Coast Party Thu on gather.town (after sessions, 4-6pm PDT = 6-8pm CDT)!

Farewell to Michael and Zipeng! [8/2021]
Congratulations to graduated PhD students Michael Oppermann and Zipeng Liu! Michael joins Virtual Identity in Austria as a senior data science consultant, and Zipeng joins Beihang University as an assistant professor.

VizSnippets: Compressing Visualization Bundles Into Representative Previews for Browsing Visualization Collections [8/2021]
by Michael Oppermann and Tamara Munzner will be published in the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) and will be presented virtually at IEEE VIS 2021.
[pre-print PDF]

TimeElide: Visual Analysis of Non-Contiguous Time Series Slices [8/2021]
by Michael Oppermann, Luce Liu, and Tamara Munzner will be published as a short paper in the Proc. of IEEE VIS 2021.
[pre-print PDF]