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Arpit Narechania

@arpitnarechania.bsky.social

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Director @datavisards.bsky.social. Assistant Professor at HKUST. CS PhD from Georgia Tech. Personal Website: narechania.com Lab Website: datavisards.com Email: arpit@ust.hk

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Arpit Narechania @arpitnarechania.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🏆 Incredibly honored to receive the 2025 IEEE VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award for my Ph.D. thesis titled "Designing, Developing, and Democratizing Guidance for Visual Analytics." I accepted this award at the #ieeevis conference last week in Vienna.

VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award Plaque

VGTC Chair Professor David Ebert announcing the award recipient and the corresponding citation.

Arpit giving an acceptance speech with his presentation slides in the background.

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Arpit Narechania @arpitnarechania.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Thrilled to share Exploropleth - our new #GIS #dataviz tool. 💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser! 🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people! exploropleth.github.io

Screenshot of a new, open source, web-based, geospatial visualization tool, Exploropleth, that lets users interact with a catalog of established data binning methods, and subsequently compare, customize, and export custom maps. The screenshot shows small multiples of 16 choropleth maps each showing Life Expectancy data for US counties, but using distinct data binning methods (e.g., natural breaks, standard deviation, pretty breaks, and so on).

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Arpit Narechania @arpitnarechania.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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Arpit Narechania @arpitnarechania.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

❓Do people’s perception & utilization of guidance change during analysis if they know its source, e.g., if it came from 🤖AI, 🧙Human Expert, or 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Group of Human Analysts? ✨Thrilled to share our new #iui2025 paper, presented last week at ACM IUI in Cagliari, Italy. (1/6)

Teaser figure showing our study prototype for visual data preparation and analysis, with a Data Attributes View on the left (showing the list of data attributes of an uploaded dataset), a Data Records View in the center (showing summary statistics and individual records for an attribute), and a Guidance Panel to request guidance (in the form of data attribute recommendations to shortlist) on the right.

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Arpit Narechania @arpitnarechania.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Are you looking for #PhD student positions in data visualization, visual analytics, #HCI research? I am recruiting multiple #PhD students (fully funded) to join my group at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology #HKUST in Fall 2025. If interested, EMAIL me! Reposts appreciated 🙏 [1/2]

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