http://ieeevis.org/year/2025/welcome
Posted: 11/2025
PhD candidate Mara Solen is presenting her VIS25 paper A Design Space for Multiscale Visualization and her VisComm Workshop paper Visualization Literacy or Skillset? Beyond the Analogy to Textual Literacy. PhD candidate Matt Oddo will be presenting his TVCG paper The Census-Stub Graph Invariant Descriptor. PhD candidate Ryan Smith will be presenting his Input Visualization Workshop paper Position Paper: Potential Areas of Bias in Visualization-as-Input Systems.
Tamara Munzner will present a tutorial on Visualization Analysis and Design. 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. She will also be on a panel titled IEEE VIS Reviewing - On a Path to Self-Destruction?
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2025/visskillset/
Posted: 8/2025
by Mara Solen, Saugat Pandey, Firas Moosvi, Alvitta Ottley, and Tamara Munzner has been accepted to the VisComm Workshop and will be presented during IEEE VIS 2025.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2025/viva/
Posted: 8/2025
by Jürgen Bernard, Mara Solen, Helen Novak Lauscher, Kurtis Stewart, Kendall Ho, and Tamara Munzner has been accepted to TVCG and will be presented at IEEE VIS 2026.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2025/multiscaledesignspace/
Posted: 7/2025
by Mara Solen, Matt Oddo, and Tamara Munzner has been accepted to IEEE VIS 2025 and will be published in a special edition of TVCG.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2025/censusstub/
Posted: 3/2025
by Matt Oddo, Stephen Kobourov, and Tamara Munzner has been accepted to TVCG and will be presented at IEEE VIS 2025.
http://ieeevis.org/year/2024/welcome
Posted: 10/2024
PhD candidate Mara Solen is presenting her VIS24 paper DeLVE into Earth's Past: A Visualization-Based Exhibit Deployed Across Multiple Museum Contexts, and will also be presenting at the Doctoral Colloquium.
Tamara Munzner has been serving as an Overall Papers Chair for VIS24 and will present a tutorial on Visualization Analysis and Design. 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 students Francis Nguyen, Matt Oddo, and Ryan Smith will also be attending.
https://www.cynthiahqy.com/
Posted: 7/2024
PhD student Cynthia Huang from Monash University is visiting us from July until December and will primarily be working with Francis Nguyen.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2024/delve/
Posted: 7/2024
by Mara Solen, Nigar Sultana, Laura Lukes, and Tamara Munzner has been accepted to IEEE VIS 2024 and will be published in a special edition of TVCG.
http://ieeevis.org/year/2023/welcome
Posted: 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/
https://chi2023.acm.org/
Posted: 5/2023
Steve Kasica is presenting Dirty Data in the Newsroom: Comparing Data Preparation in Journalism and Data Science.
Posted: 4/2023
Congratulations to Sam Fraser for graduating from his BSc program! He now joins Datadog in New York as a software developer.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2023/dirty-data-in-the-newsroom/
Posted: 1/2023
by Stephen Kasica, Charles Berret, and Tamara Munzner has been accepted to CHI 2023 and will be presented virtually.
http://ieeevis.org/year/2022/welcome
Posted: 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.
Posted: 9/2022
Matt Oddo and Ryan Smith join the group in the PhD program. Sam Fraser joins as an undergraduate research assistant.
Posted: 9/2022
Congratulations to Charles Berret for completing his post-doc! He now joins Miriah Meyer in Linköping, Sweden as a post-doc.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2022/visliteracy/
Posted: 8/2022
by Mara Solen has been accepted to the VisComm Workshop and will be also presented at IEEE VIS 2022.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2021/corgie/
Posted: 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]
http://ieeevis.org/year/2021/welcome
Posted: 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)!
Posted: 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.
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2021/vizsnippets
Posted: 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]
https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2021/timeelide/
Posted: 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]
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