Khoury Vis Lab @ Northeastern

🌌 “Our Energy Nexus” is featured in #InfoPlus2025!
This interactive installation by Chloe Prock & friends reimagines energy as a collective force, turning pollution data into shared hope + action.
https://informationplusconference.com/2025/exhibition_items/02_item/
#datavis #dataart

Join Khoury Vis Lab members Eduardo Puerta & Sydney Purdue for the “Stitching Meaning: Collaborative Data Quilting” 🧵 workshop at #InfoPlus2025!
Explore how fiber arts helps us understand data through collective making.

🗓️ Fri, Nov 14 | 13:40-17:00
https://informationplusconference.com/2025/workshops/

“The Numbers” brings data to the stage 🎭
With scenic design by Khoury Vis Lab’s Sydney Purdue, this data-inspired show runs Nov 13-23 at Northeastern!
🎟️ Get tickets: https://camd.northeastern.edu/events/department-of-theatres-production-of-the-numbers/
#datatheater

✍️ What makes measuring visualization literacy such a wicked problem? Come hear from this autoethnographic work by vis literacy researchers, including Khoury Vis Lab members Mackenzie Creamer & Michael Correll. In the Visualization Literacy session, 9:30 - 10:45 AM Fri.
#ieeevis

How can augmented reality help researchers explore complex astronomical data? 🌌 Learn about Mackenzie Creamer, @michelle_borkin@bird.makeup & friends’ replication study to find out! In Immersive Visualization and Extended Reality, 3:45 - 5 PM Thurs. #ieeevis
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/v6sfg_v1

Learn about the diverse function of text 💬 in visualizations from “An Analysis of Text Functions in Information Visualization” by Chase Stokes, Anjana Arunkumar, Marti A. Hearst, and @lace@vis.social, also in From Data to Meaning, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM! #ieeevis

Wonder why some charts are so hard to read? Wen Xu & @lace@vis.social show they could be violating your expectations 💭. Join the talk 11:15 - 12:30 in From Data to Meaning – you’ll also learn how to design better connected scatterplots! #ieeevis #cognition
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/4mc2b

How do data textile creators stitch meaning into their work? 🧶 Hear from Sydney Purdue, Eduardo Puerta,
@ebertini@vis.social, & @vizstudylady@bird.makeup on Thurs, 11:15 - 12:30. (Rumor has it there’ll be a real piece on display 🤫)
#ieeevis #dataphysicalization #datatextiles
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/eyw2r_v1

Join a critical discussion on the state of peer review at #ieeevis. Panel "IEEE VIS Reviewing - On a Path to Self-Destruction?" on Thurs, 9:30 - 10:45 AM will examine concerning trends, from gatekeeping to bias that may narrow the field's scope. Feat. @vizstudylady@bird.makeup as panelist.

Learn which encodings work best for showing temporal vs. categorical uncertainty on timelines from Potter et al. (feat. lab alumn Uzma Haque Syeda & faculty @michelle_borkin@bird.makeup Borkin)! Catch it in Workflows & Infrastructure, Thurs 9:30 - 10:45 AM!
#ieeevis
https://osf.io/3rkma

🎨 Check out “Artistic Inspiration for Uncertainty Visualization Techniques,” an exploration of art × uncertainty by Khoury Vis Lab faculty member @michelle_borkin@bird.makeup in the poster session on Wednesday, 5–6 PM, or view the digital version here: https://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20809569
#ieeevis #dataart

Khoury Vis Lab faculty member @lace@vis.social will be a panelist at “What Does Psychology Really Mean to Visualization Research? Towards PsychXVis and VisXPsych” on Wednesday, 2:00 - 3:15 PM 🧠
The panel will explore how deeper collaboration between psychology and visualization can lead to more evidence-based, human-centered VIS research. #ieeevis #VisXPsych

What’s better than a neat, readable network? One that’s laid out fast. ⚡Check out “Fast and Readable Layered Network Visualizations Using Large Neighborhood Search” by @cwilson@vis.social, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Eduardo Puerta, & @codydunne@vis.social in the Ordering and Layout session, Wed 2:00 - 3:15 PM #ieeevis #networks #graphs

The paper is available at: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10869833

From a "Dashboard Zoo" 🦒 to a "Census". Srinivasan et al. (feat. our lab’s Michael Correll) move beyond “showpiece” dashboards to survey 25K+ real ones in the wild. Catch “From Dashboard Zoo to Census” in the Dastardly Dashboards session, Wed 9:30 - 10:45 AM #ieeevis

Find the paper here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10745882

🏆 Congratulations to Melanie Tory for being inducted into the VGTC Visualization Academy! #ieeevis
https://ieeevis.org/year/2025/info/awards/vgtc-awards

🏆 Congratulations to @lace@vis.social for receiving this year’s VGTC Significant New Researcher Award at #ieeevis!
https://ieeevis.org/year/2025/info/awards/vgtc-awards

Khoury VIS faculty member Michael Correll and @lane@vis.social shared what happens when “A Priest, a Rabbi, and an Atheist Walk Into an Error Bar 🍸” at alt.VIS.

Learn more about their religious meditations on uncertainty visualization: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08213.

Congratulations to @racquel@vis.social for receiving 🏆Honorable Mention🏆 in this year’s VAST Challenge for her work with @woottondylan@bird.makeup, Intuitive Support for Query Construction! #ieeevis

Learn more about the VAST Challenge: https://vast-challenge.github.io/2025/index.html

Khoury Vis faculty member @ebertini@vis.social co-organized the VISxGenAI: 1st Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS. Learn more about it here: https://visxgenai.github.io #ieeevis #genAI

Khoury Vis Lab member Sydney Purdue presented her work with Bhargava et al., “Data Theatre as Input Visualization: Building Community Voice and Cohesion” at the Input Visualization Workshop. #ieeevis #inputvis #datatheatre

📄Read it here: https://osf.io/xpqcf/files/aeu5g

Khoury Vis represent 🙌 The best paper / honorable mention track at @EuroVis@vis.social this year features Northeastern vis lab alum @sara_picorana@bird.makeup on TWO papers 🤯 and PhD candidate @janeadams@datavis.social presenting an honorable mention co-authored with Khoury faculty @michelle_borkin@bird.makeup and @vizstudylady@bird.makeup 🏆 Don't miss it at 11am on Tuesday, right after the opening keynote! https://www.eurovis2025.lu/for-attendees/program

Posting a shout-out to vis lab alum @aditeyapandey@vis.social for his amazing work as Tech Co-Chair for #IEEEVIS 2024 - thank you Adi for all your volunteer service, especially in such hectic circumstances pivoting to a virtual conference! 🙌

#IEEEVIS is happening all over #Boston!! Thanks to all the organizers who gathered us together in person and have pulled off a whole hybrid conference with virtually no notice 🤯 This wouldn't have been possible without the collaboration of Northeastern, Tufts, Harvard, MIT(+IBM), UMass, WPI, Brandeis, and more 💖 We may be a little biased but... Boston is definitely a #VisCity ! Can't wait to host everyone here in 2026 👀

Are you the kind of person who likes detangling christmas lights? Love it or hate it, you will enjoy @KhouryVis@vis.social members' speedup techniques for optimal crossing minimization at 3:15pm EST on Wednesday #IEEEVIS ft. @codydunne@vis.social @cwilson@vis.social @sara_picorana@bird.makeup

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39259630/

http://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/paper_v-full-1874.html #Networks #Graphs #NetworkScience #GraphDrawing #algorithms #Math #optimization #mathstodon

Small multiples, big impact: @lace@vis.social & friends have some important lessons for us #ieeevis on how frame quantity impacts judgments with line graphs - Wednesday at 1:30pm EST!

https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/session_full26.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378712488_Examining_Limits_of_Small_Multiples_Frame_Quantity_Impacts_Judgments_with_Line_Graphs #psychology #perception #analysis #judgement

If you squish another PDF, we will know that you missed @racquel@vis.social and @lace@vis.social 's Impact of Vertical Scaling on Normal Probability Density Functions 👀 In the Perception & Cognition track at 1:30pm EST

https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/session_full26.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39255124/ #ieeevis

Wednesday afternoon #ieeevis don't miss @jguerra@vis.social as a panelist on VIS conference futures, including "opportunities for hybrid event formats" -- Unexpectedly VERY relevant this year! https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/session_panel6.html

We're bummed #ieeevis isn't in person, but that doesn't mean you can't reach out! Ask @racquel@vis.social about her Doctoral Colloquium topic, "Non-interactive Visualization Affordances" -- she has some great ideas 👀 #affordances #hci #datavisualization

Wearing many hats this #IEEEVIS, @lace@vis.social is part of the ombuds team *and* publicity co-chair. Thank you for all you do, Lace and team! 💗

A reminder that you can find the Code of Conduct for VIS here: https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/info/inclusion/code-of-conduct #DataVisualization #Inclusivity

Northeastern Vis Lab newcomer Anjana Arunkumar is a workshop organizer of EnergyVis on Monday afternoon!

Workshop link: https://energyvis.org/
Conf. link: https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/session_workshop2.html

#Energy #Power #Electricity #Wind #Solar #ClimateChange #DataVis #ieeevis @ieeevis@vis.social

Also, don't miss @Birdbassador@jorts.horse & friends "Tasks and Telephones: Threats to Experimental Validity due to Misunderstandings of Visualisation Tasks and Strategies", also at BELIV.

OSF: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/d849a
Conf. Link: https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/session_associated6a.html #IEEEVIS @ieeevis@vis.social #methodology

Complexity... as design material?? 🧑‍🎨 @Birdbassador@jorts.horse et al think so. Catch their BELIV paper on Monday!

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.07465
Conf. link: https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/paper_w-beliv-1035.html

#IEEEVIS #Design #Complexity #DataVis @ieeevis@vis.social

We're CERTAIN that our resident uncertainty expert @lace@vis.social will have some valuable insights on the #UncertaintyVis panel Monday morning -- don't miss it!

Workshop info: https://tusharathawale.github.io/UncertaintyVis-Workshop/
URL: https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/session_workshop5.html #IEEEVIS #DisasterPreparedness #Risk #Uncertainty

This paper definitely wins the superlative for "VIS paper with the most emojis" this year 😉 Check out @Birdbassador & co-authors' "Data-Wink" ratio paper from today's workshop on Data Storytelling in an Era of Generative AI (Gen4DS) https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.13418 #IEEEVIS #VIS2024 #GenAI #Emojis

https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/paper_w-storygenai-5237.html

HUGE CONGRATS to @codydunne@vis.social for becoming a tenured faculty member at Northeastern University! 🎉 Learn more about Dr. Dunne's research here:

https://dunne.dev/

#DataVisualization #NetworkScience #a11y #cybersecurity #BostonMA #DataVis #DigitalHumanities #Epidemiology #ACMCHI #IEEEVIS #OpenScience #Healthcare #Diabetes

Preprints, Plan S, copyright, oh my! 😱

ICYMI: @codydunne@vis.social has written up a great summary of a chat about the current landsape of academic publishing ft. @tamara@vis.social @zhutianchen@bird.makeup @dom@vis.social @lonnibesancon@mstdn.science @alexlex@vis.social

https://dunne.dev/blog/2024-06-04-vis-copyright/

#IEEEVIS #ACMCHI #EuroVis #IEEE #ArXiv #publishing #academia #PlanS #OSF #DataViz #HCI #OpenScience

Congratulations to incoming PhD student Chloe Prock for being a finalist of the UVA Data is ART competition! https://datascience.virginia.edu/pages/perfect-storm-chloe-prock #dataArt #DataViz

Crikey, it’s almost #VIS week! 🦘 The Northeastern Khoury College #visualization lab has a big presence this year in Melbourne – here’s a thread of all the places you can find us at @ieeevis@vis.social🧵#IEEEVIS #VISWEEK #VIS2024 #DataVis:

https://vis.khoury.northeastern.edu