2/2022 [ paper ]:
Visualizing Graph Neural Networks with CorGIE: Corresponding a Graph to Its Embedding
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.
10/2021 [ paper ]:
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)!
8/2021 [ farewell ]:
Farewell to Michael and Zipeng!
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.
8/2021 [ paper ]:
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.
8/2021 [ paper ]:
TimeElide: Visual Analysis of Non-Contiguous Time Series Slices
by Michael Oppermann, Luce Liu, and Tamara Munzner will be published as a short paper in the Proc. of IEEE VIS 2021.
8/2021 [ paper ]:
by Anamaria Crisan, Shannah Elizabeth Fisher, Jennifer L. Gardy, and Tamara Munzner has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) and will be presented at IEEE VIS 2022.
05/2021 [award]:
Tamara Munzner Celebrates Achievement Award in Visualization/HCI
The 2021 CHCCS/SCDHM Achievement Award of the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society is presented to Tamara Munzner for her many contributions to the field of visualization.
10/2020 [farewell/welcome]:
Farewell to Jürgen! Welcome to Mara!
Jürgen Bernard was a Postdoc in our group between June 2019 and November 2020. It was great having you here! We wish you all the best in your new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich.
Mara Solen joins our group as an undergraduate research assistant and will start their PhD program in the fall of 2021.
10/2020 [keynote]:
Tamara Munzner gives the keynote address at ChinaVis 2020 titled Problem-Driven Visualization Through Design Studies.
10/2020 [ conf ]:
At IEEE VIS 2020, Michael Oppermann will present the VAST Paper VizCommender: Computing Text-Based Similarity in Visualization Repositories for Content-Based Recommendations and the BELIV workshop paper Data-First Visualization Design Studies. Steve Kasica will present the InfoVis paper Table Scraps: An Actionable Framework for Multi-Table DataWrangling From An Artifact Study of Computational Journalism. Madison Elliott will present A Design Space of Vision Science Methods for Visualization Research, awarded the InfoVis best paper honorable mention. Tamara Munzner will participate at BELIV in the Fireside Chat: Thoughts on Design Studies and the panel Evaluation Moving into the Next Decade. Tamara will also offer her tutorial on Visualization Analysis and Design
9/2020 [ paper ]:
by Steve Kasica, Charles Berret, 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 2020.
9/2020 [ paper ]:
Data-First Visualization Design Studies
by Michael Oppermann and Tamara Munzner was accepted to the IEEE VIS Workshop Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches for Visualization (BELIV). Michael will present this paper at the virtual workshop at IEEE VIS 2020.
8/2020 [ paper ]:
by Michael Oppermann, Robert Kincaid, and Tamara Munzner was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Michael will present this paper at the virtual VIS 2020 conference.
5/2020 [ paper ]:
SepEx: Visual Analysis of Class Separation Measures
by Jürgen Bernard and Tamara Munzner was presented at the EuroVA workshop (at EuroVis/EuroGraphics 2020, see EuroGraphics Digital Library).
4/2020 [ paper ]:
Ocupado: Visualizing Location-Based Counts Over Time Across Buildings
by Michael Oppermann and Tamara Munzner was accepted at Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2020).
1/2020 [ paper ]:
Data-driven Multi-level Segmentation of Image Editing Logs
by Zipeng Liu, Zhicheng Liu, and Tamara Munzner was accepted at Proc. CHI Conf. Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
1/2020 [ paper ]:
The Sprawlter Graph Readability Metric: Combining Sprawl and Area-aware Clutter
by Zipeng Liu, Takayuki Itoh, Jessica Q. Dawson, and Tamara Munzner was accepted by IEEE PacificVis 2020, and awarded the Best Paper Honorable Mention. It was invited to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
10/2019 [UBC InfoVis @ IEEE VIS 2019]:
UBC will have a strong presence at VIS 2019 in our hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Tamara Munzner is celebrating a Test of Time award for her 2009 paper on the nested model, and joining the IEEE Visualization Academy as an inaugural fellow. She is also chair of the reVISe committee, which will discuss its restructuring proposal in a Town Hall Wednesday 1-2pm.
Madison Elliott is co-chair of the workshop Vis X Vision: Workshop on Novel Directions in Vision Science and Visualization Research (Sunday afternoon). Ana Crisan, newly minted Ph.D currently at Tableau as a Research Scientist, is the co-chair for the BioVis Challenges workshop (Thursday morning). Jürgen Bernard, who joined the InfoVis Group as a post-doc this summer, is co-chair of the workshop Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) (Sunday full-day). Tamara Munzner is presenting the tutorial Visualization Analysis and Design (Monday morning).
Several students within the InfoVis Group will be presenting their papers, as well as others engaged in visualization research at UBC. Zipeng Liu will present the TVCG paper "Aggregated Dendrograms for Visual Comparison Between Many Phylogenetic Trees" on the behalf of coauthors Shing Hei Zhan and Tamara Munzner. Ana Crisan is presenting the short paper she wrote with Tamara Munzner titled "Uncovering Data Landscapes through Data Reconnaissance and Task Wrangling". The short paper "OCTVis: Ontology-based Comparison of Topic Models" by Amon Ge, Hyeju Jang, Giuseppe Carenini, Kendall Ho, and Young Ji Lee will be presented during the short paper session on systems and design studies.
Our group is also co-hosting the West Coast Party at The Blackbird Public House on Thursday, Oct 24 9pm-1am.
9/2019 [farewell]:
Farewell to Ana!
Congratulations to Ana Crisan, who has successfully defended her PhD on Visualizing Heterogeneous Data in Genomic Epidemiology. She has now joined Tableau Research as a Research Scientist.
9/2019 [welcome]:
Welcome Francis!
Francis Nguyen joins the InfoVis group as a graduate student, coming from a research position at the Midwest Uncertainty Collective at Northwestern University with Jessica Hullman, and undergrad work at the University of Washington.
6/2019 [welcome]:
Welcome to Jürgen!
Jürgen Bernard is now a postdoc with InfoVis group, joining us from TU Darmstadt and Fraunhofer in Germany, where his work included visual-interactive machine learning and time-oriented data.
2/2019 [paper]:
Segmentifier: Interactive Refinement of Clickstream Data
by Kimberly Dextras-Romagnino, and Tamara Munzner was accepted at Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis 2019).
2/2019 [welcome]:
Welcome to Steve!
Steve Kasica is a graduate student in Computer Science and joins the UBC Infovis group. Steve previously worked as a professional research assistant in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Earth Systems Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
2/2019 [paper]:
Aggregated dendrograms for visual comparison between many phylogenetic trees
by Zipeng Liu, Shing Hei Zhan, and Tamara Munzner was accepted at IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
10/2018 [UBC InfoVis @ IEEE VIS 2018]:
At the BELIV Workshop, Anamaria Crisan and Madison Elliott will present the paper "How to evaluate an evaluation study? Comparing and contrasting practices in vis with those of other disciplines".
Michael Oppermann will give a talk entitled "Uncovering Spatiotemporal Dynamics from Non-Trajectory Data" at the Urban Data Visualization Workshop.
Tamara Munzner will participate in a panel at the VisGuides Workshop.
We're co-hosting the (North) West Coast Party, on Thursday night.
9/2018 [paper]:
by Anamaria Crisan, Jennifer L. Gardy, and Tamara Munzner was published in Oxford Bioinformatics
[paper]
8/2018 [paper]:
Adjutant: an R-based tool to support topic discovery for systematic and literature reviews
by Anamaria Crisan, Tamara Munzner, and Jennifer L. Gardy was published in Oxford Bioinformatics
[paper]
8/2018 [farewell]:
Visiting Professor Takayuki Itoh
Takayuki Itoh from Ochanomizu University, Japan, was visiting our group between Jul - Aug 2018. Thanks for your visit, it was great having you here!
05/2018 [paper]:
GaRSIVis: Improving the Predicting of Self-Interruption during Reading using Gaze Data
by Jan Pilzer, Shareen Mahmud, Vanessa Putnam, and Tamara Munzner was accepted to ETVIS 2018.
4/2018 [farewell]:
Farewell to Kim!
Congratulations to Kimberly Dextras-Romagnino on earning your Masters degree. We wish you all the best in your new job at Kabam.
02/2018 [paper]:
A Novel Methodology for Characterizing Cell Subpopulations in Automated Time-lapse Microscopy
by Georges Hattab, Veit Wiesmann, Anke Becker, Tamara Munzner and Tim W. Nattkemper was published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
[paper]
12/2017 [paper]:
by Anamaria Crisan, Geoff McKee, Tamara Munzner, and Jennifer L. Gardy was accepted to PeerJ
[paper]
11/2017 [panel]:
Data Visualization as a Driver for Visual Cognition Research
Tamara Munzner participated in the interdisciplinary research panel discussion Discover Pasteur's Quadrant: Four research communities that will inspire your work at OPAM 2017
The panel was organized by Vis X Vision to inspire cross-disciplinary perspectives for innovative, applicable, and fundable research at the intersection of visualization and vision science!
[slides] [ visxvision]
10/2017 [UBC InfoVis @ IEEE VIS 2017]:
At IEEE Vis 2017, Heidi Lam presents the paper Bridging From Goals to Tasks with Design Study Analysis Reports [Honorable Mention], and Matthew Brehmer presents the paper Timelines Revisited: A Design Space and Considerations for Expressive Storytelling.
Tamara Munzner speaks at the panel Reflection on Reflection in Design Studies, and offers her tutorial on Visualization Analysis and Design.
Anamaria Crisan presents an InfoVis poster: Showcasing design study methodology through simpler design challenges: An application to a microbial genomics clinical report design.
We're co-hosting the Utah + West Coast Party, on Tuesday night.
10/2017 [poster]:
by Anamaria Crisan, Geoff McKee, Tamara Munzner, and Jennifer L. Gardy will be presented as an infovis posters by Anamaria at VIS 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona.
10/2017 [panel]:
Reflection on Reflection in Design Studies
This year at IEEE VIS 17, Tamara Munzner speaks at the panel Reflection on Reflection in Design Studies, Oct 5 @ 4:15 PM.
9/2017 [farewell]:
Farewell to Dylan!
Congratulations to Dylan Dong on earning your Masters degree. We wish you all the best in your new job at The Sky Guys in Toronto.
8/2017 [Paper, Honorable Mention]:
Bridging From Goals to Tasks with Design Study Analysis Reports
by Heidi Lam, Melanie Tory, and Tamara Munzner was awarded a Best Paper Honorable Mention at InfoVis 2017, and will be published in the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). It will be presented at VIS 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona.
8/2017 [welcome]:
Welcome to Michael!
Michael Oppermann joins the UBC Infovis group as a new PhD student. He previously earned a Dipl-Ing at the University of Vienna VDA group with Michael Sedlmair and Torsten Möller.
12/2016 [farewell]:
Farewell to Georges!
Many members of the infovis reading group at a farewell dinner for visiting graduate student Georges Hattab, who returns to Bielefeld.
10/23-28 2016 [VIS 2016]:
At BELIV 2016, Ana Crisan presents a paper On Regulatory and Organizational Constraints in Visualization Design and Evaluation and Tamara Munzner speaks at the panel On the Future of Evaluation and BELIV. Tamara also speaks on the VIS panel Pathways for Theoretical Advances in Visualization, and offers her tutorial on Visualization Analysis and Design. We're co-hosting the 6th annual West Coast Party.
10/2016 [paper]:
Timelines Revisited: A Design Space and Considerations for Expressive Storytelling
by Matthew Brehmer, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin Bach, Nathalie Henry Riche, and Tamara Munzner was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Matthew will present this paper at VIS 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona.
10/2016 [talk]:
Computation + Journalism 2016 Keynote
Tamara Munzner's keynote talk, Visualization and Journalism: Four Vignettes, at Computation + Journalism, Sep 30 - Oct 1 2016 at Stanford. [slides]
06/2016 [talks]:
Information+ Keynote, Lightning Talks
Tamara Munzner gave a keynote talk entitled Visualization Analysis and Design at Information+, June 16 - 18, 2016 in Vancouver BC, Canada. Also at Information+, recent group alum Johanna Fulda gave a lightning talk entitled What’s up with Data Journalism in Canada? and visiting PhD student Georges Hattab gave a lightning talk on A Mnemonic Card Game for your Amino Acids, which also appeared in the Information+ Exhibition at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
06/2016 [talk]:
Tamara Munzner gave her Visualization Analysis and Design talk at Graphics Interface (GI) 2016, June 1 - 3, 2016, in Victoria BC, Canada.
05/2016 [poster]:
PaperQuest: A Visualization Tool to Support Literature Review, a poster by Antoine Ponsard, Francisco "Pax" Escalona, and Tamara Munzner was accepted at ACM CHI 2016, May 7 - 12, 2016, in San Jose CA, USA.
04/2016 [talk]:
Tamara Munzner gave a keynote talk entitled Visualization Analysis and Design at IEEE PacificVis 2016, April 19 - 22, 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan.
03/2016 [thesis]:
Why Visualization? Task Abstraction for Analysis and Design
Matthew Brehmer successfully defended his PhD dissertation.
02/2016 [seminar]:
Dagstuhl Seminar #16061: Data-Driven Storytelling
Matthew Brehmer attended a Dagstuhl seminar on Data-Driven Storytelling between February 7th and 12th along with a great group of researchers, designers, and journalists. A book on data-driven storytelling, written collaboratively by the seminar participants, is forthcoming.
02/16/2016 [podcast]:
PolicyViz #32: Teaching Data Visualization
Jon Schwabish talks with Tamara Munzner, Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley), Eytan Adar (University of Michigan), and Robert Kosara (Tableau Software) about best practices, ideas, experiences, and different approaches to teaching data visualization.
[episode]
02/05/2016 [new course]:
Information Visualization for Journalists
Students at the UBC School of Journalism gained hands-on experience of data visualization in a new elective offered for the first time this year by Tamara Munzner. In this course, students developed fundamental data visualization concepts and skills, including wrangling, interpreting and presenting data in a journalistic context.
11/21/2015 [talk]:
Opening Keynote at d3.unconf in San Francisco
Tamara Munzner gave the Opening Keynote at the D3 Unconference, a one-day gathering of data visualization practitioners in San Francisco, CA.
[talk video][slides]
11/13/2015 [podcast]:
Data Stories #63: w/ Robert Kosara and Johanna Fulda
Enrico Bertini recaps the IEEE VIS'15 conference with Robert Kosara and UBC InfoVis alum Johanna Fulda in the bi-weekly podcast on data visualization.[episode]
10/27/2015 [award]:
Tamara Munzner receives 2015 Visualization Technical Achievement Award
The award is given in recognition of her foundational research that has 'produced a scientific basis for principles and design choices for visualization', which culminated in her 2014 book Visualization Analysis and Design from CRC Press.
[Awards site][Acceptance Talk][Department News][The Ubyssey]
10/25-30/2015 [VIS 2015]:
This year at VIS15, Tamara was the recipient of the 2015 IEEE VGTC Visualization Techical Achievement Award. Tamara also offered her Visualization Analysis and Design Tutorial and participated in the panel entitled: "Vis, The Next Generation: Teaching Across the Researcher-Practitioner Gap". She also spoke at the VIS16 Kickoff event.
Meanwhile, Matthew Brehmer presented an InfoVis paper, Johanna Fulda presented a VAST paper, and Mike Wu presented an InfoVis poster.
Links: [VGTC Award slides] [Tutorial slides][Vis TNG panel slides] [InfoVis paper] [VAST paper] [InfoVis poster]
8/26/2015 [reddit AMA]:
Data is Beautiful Ask Me Anything
/r/DataIsBeautiful hosted Tamara Munzner for an AMA on Wednesday, August 26.
8/07/2015 [poster]:
SEQIT: Visualizing Sequences of Interest in Eye Tracking Data
by Mike Wu and Tamara Munzner was accepted to IEEE InfoVis 2015. Mike presented this poster at the IEEE VIS Conference in Chicago between October 27th and 30th, 2015.
8/01/2015 [paper]:
Matches, Mismatches, and Methods: Multiple-View Workflows for Energy Portfolio Analysis
by Matthew Brehmer, Jocelyn Ng, Kevin Tate, and Tamara Munzner was accepted to IEEE InfoVis 2015. Matthew presented this paper in the Design Studies and Methodology session of IEEE InfoVis in Chicago on Wednesday, October 28th, 2015.
8/01/2015 [paper]:
TimeLineCurator: Interactive Authoring of Visual Timelines from Unstructured Text
by Johanna Fulda, Matthew Brehmer, and Tamara Munzner was accepted to IEEE VAST (TVCG track) 2015. Johanna presented this paper in the Visual Analytics of Textual Data (II) session of IEEE VAST in Chicago on Friday, October 30th, 2015.
6/18/2015 [talk]:
Data Visualization Show & Tell: TimeLineCurator
Johanna Fulda presented TimeLineCurator at a Vancouver Hacks/Hackers Meetup.
6/8/2015 [master class]:
Data Visualization Masterclass
Tamara Munzner taught a Data Visualization Masterclass along with Gaël McGill, Sean O'Donoghue, Julian Heinrich, and Christian Stolte on June 8th at the University of Sydney. This event was part of the Vivid Sydney Light, Music, and Ideas festival.
5/28/2015 [paper]:
Detangler: Visual Analytics for Multiplex Networks
by Benjamin Renoust (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo), Guy Melançon (Université de Bordeaux), and Tamara Munzner was presented by Benjamin at EuroVis 2015 on May 28 in Cagliari, Italy.
5/19/2015 [talk]:
Matthew Brehmer spoke at a Vancouver Data Visualization Meetup on "The Future of Data and Design … In Visualization Research".[slides]
2/23/2015 [software]:
We released a browser-based visualization tool for curating timelines generated from freeform text. Try it out and let us know what you think!
2/19-20/2015 [talk]:
Book tour talks: Tableau, Microsoft Research, giCentre
Tamara Munzner spoke on Visualization Analysis and Design at Tableau Software 2/20, and Microsoft Research 2/19. Her seminar at City University London's giCentre was on Feb 3.[slides]
12/22/2014 [podcast]:
Data Stories #44: w/ Tamara Munzner
Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner interview Tamara Munzner in their bi-weekly podcast on data visualization.[episode]
11/12/2014 [book launch]:
Fourth Annual West Coast Party at VIS14 (+ book launch)
Hosted by UBC, University of Washington, Trifacta, and CRC Press.This year’s party served as the launch and book signing for Tamara’s new book Visualization Analysis and Design. It’s the the first book in the AK Peters Visualization Series (CRC Press).
11/09/2014 [tutorial]:
Visualization Analysis and Design
Tamara Munzner presented this tutorial at VIS 2014 on Nov. 9.[slides]
11/14/2014 [paper]:
by Matthew Brehmer, Stephen Ingram, Jonathan Stray (Columbia Journalism School, Associated Press), and Tamara Munzner was presented at IEEE InfoVis 2014, November 9-13 in Paris, France.
Matthew presented this paper in the InfoVis session on Documents, Search & Images on Nov. 14.
11/10/2014 [workshop paper]:
by Matthew Brehmer, Michael Sedlmair (University of Vienna), Stephen Ingram, and Tamara Munzner was presented at the ACM Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV).Matthew presented this paper in the BELIV session on Rethinking Evaluation Level: Abstracted Task vs In Situ Evaluation on Nov. 10.
11/10/2014 [workshop paper]:
Pre-Design Empiricism for Information Visualization: Scenarios, Methods, and Challenges
by Matthew Brehmer, Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary), Bongshin Lee (Microsoft Research), and Melanie Tory (University of Victoria) was presented at the ACM Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV).Matthew presented this paper in the BELIV session on Experience Reports on Nov. 10.
11/08/2014 [doctoral colloquium]:
Visualization Task Abstraction from Multiple Perspectives
Matthew Brehmer participated in the 2014 IEEE VIS Doctoral Colloquium.Matthew spoke at the DC on Nov. 8 and presented his DC poster on Nov. 12.
10/2014 [talk]:
Visualization Fireside Chat: Is Big Data Visualization Possible
Tamara Munzner chatted with Lee Wilkinson and John Stasko, moderated by Eric Kavanagh, in a Google Hangout On Air on Wed Oct 1.
09/2014 [paper]:
A Search Set Model of Path Tracing in Graphs
by Jessica Dawson, Joanna McGrenere, and Tamara Munzner was accepted to the Journal of Information Visualization.
09/2014 [retreat]:
Photo from retreat rebooting the group post-sabbatical. Welcome to new members Johanna Fulda and Michelle Borkin; welcome back alumna Heidi Lam who will begin new collaborations from within Google; Matt Brehmer continues.
07/2014 [talk]:
Visualization for Hackers: Why It’s Tricky, and Where to Start
Tamara Munzner spoke at HOPE X: Hackers On Planet Earth on Jul 19 in New York City, USA.[pdf slides] [video]
07/2014 [paper]:
Dimensionality Reduction for Documents with Nearest Neighbor Queries
by Stephen Ingram and Tamara Munzner was accepted to the Journal of Neurocomputing's special issue on Visual Analytics using Multidimensional Projections, to appear in 2014.
07/2014 [talk]:
Visualization Analysis and Design for Biology
Tamara Munzner gave the keynote talk at the 4th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) on July 11th in Boston, USA.
05/2014 [workshop]:
Evaluation of Visual Analytics
Matthew Brehmer attended the VACCINE Evaluation of Visual Analytics Workshop on May 20th and 21st at UCSD in La Jolla, USA.
04/2014 [talk]:
Variant View: Visualizing Sequence Variants in their Gene Context
Tamara Munzner spoke at the BioIT World Conference and Expo (Data Visualization and Exploration Tools Track) on April 29th in Boston, USA.
04/2014 [talk]:
Dimensionality Reduction From Three Angles
Tamara Munzner gave an invited talk at the SIAM Data Mining Workshop on Exploratory Data Analysis on April 26th in Philadelphia, USA.
12/2013 [paper]:
The Nested Blocks and Guidelines Model
by Miriah Meyer (University of Utah), Michael Sedlmair (University of Vienna), P. Samuel Quinan (University of Utah), and Tamara Munzner was published online in the Journal of Information Visualization, and will appear in a forthcoming special issue on evaluation (BELIV).
[pdf]
10/2013 [paper]:
Empirical Guidance on Scatterplot and Dimension Reduction Technique Choices
by Michael Sedlmair (University of Vienna), Tamara Munzner, and Melanie Tory (University of Victoria) was presented at IEEE InfoVis 2013 in Atlanta, USA.
[pdf]
10/2013 [paper]:
A Multi-Level Typology of Abstract Visualization Tasks
by Matthew Brehmer and Tamara Munzner was presented at IEEE InfoVis 2013 in Atlanta, USA.
[pdf]
10/2013 [paper]:
Variant View: Visualizing Sequence Variants in their Gene Context
by Joel A. Ferstay, Cydney B. Nielsen (British Columbia Cancer Agency), and Tamara Munzner was presented at IEEE InfoVis 2013 in Atlanta, USA.
[pdf]
10/2013 [panel talk]:
Tamara Munzner participated in the panel discussion How Much Evaluation Is Enough? at IEEE InfoVis 2013 in Atlanta, USA.
10/2013 [thesis]:
A Search Set Model of Path Tracing in Graphs
Jessica Dawson presented her MSc thesis.[pdf]
09/2013 [talk]:
Graph Drawing Through the Lens of a Framework for Analyzing Visualization Methods
Tamara Munzner gave an invited talk at Graph Drawing 2013 in Bordeaux, France.
07/2013 [thesis]:
Variant View: Visualizing Sequence Variants in their Gene Context
Joel Ferstay presented his MSc thesis.[pdf]
06/2013 [talk]:
Dimensionality Reduction From Several Angles
Tamara Munzner gave an invited talk at the EuroVis 2013 Workshop on Visual Analytics for Multidimensional Projections on June 19th in Leipzig, Germany.
11/2012 [paper]:
Glint: An MDS Framework for Costly Distance Functions
by Stephen Ingram and Tamara Munzner was presented at SIGRAD 2012 in Växjö, Sweden.
[pdf]
10/2012 [paper]:
Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks.
by Michael Sedlmair, Miriah Meyer (University of Utah), and Tamara Munzner was presented at IEEE InfoVis 2012 in Seattle, USA.
[pdf]
10/2012 [paper]:
RelEx: Visualization for Actively Changing Overlay Network Specifications.
by Michael Sedlmair, Annika Frank (Bertrand AG), Tamara Munzner, and Andreas Butz (University of Munich) was presented at IEEE InfoVis 2012 in Seattle, USA.
[pdf]
10/2012 [panel talk]:
Grassroots Reproducability: Just Do It!
Tamara Munzner participated in the panel discussion Reproducible Visualization Research: How Do We Get There? at IEEE InfoVis 2012 in Seattle, USA.
10/2012 [workshop paper]:
The Four-Level Nested Model Revisited: Blocks and Guidelines
by Miriah Meyer (University of Utah), Michael Sedlmair, and Tamara Munzner was presented at the ACM Workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV) in Seattle, USA.
[pdf]
06/2012 [paper, best paper award]:
by Maryam Booshehrian (Simon Fraser University), Torsten Möller (Simon Fraser University), Randall Peterman (Simon Fraser University), and Tamara Munzner was presented at at EuroVis 2012 in Vienna, Austria, and was awarded the Second Best Paper Award.
06/2012 [paper]:
A Taxonomy of Visual Cluster Separation Factors.
by Michael Sedlmair, Andrada Tatu (University of Konstanz), Tamara Munzner, and Melanie Tory (University of Victoria) was presented at EuroVis 2012 in Vienna, Austria.
[pdf]
01/2011 [paper]:
Applying Information Visualization Principles to Biological Network Displays
by Tamara Munzner was presented at the SPIE-IS&T Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 2011 Conference in San Fransisco, USA.
[pdf]
2011 [paper]:
Reflections on QuestVis: A Visualization System for an Environmental Sustainability Model
by Tamara Munzner, Aaron Barsky, and Matt Williams appeared in Scientific Visualization: Interactions, Features, Metaphors. Dagstuhl Follow-Ups 2.
[pdf]
