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🦾 New @BioRevolution podcast episode! What if scientists could step inside their data? 🫀🥽 With Andreas Bueckle & Andreas Horchler, we explore XR, the Human Reference Atlas—and what scientists can learn from gamers. 🎮🔬 ▶️ youtu.be/RcL7P-uWOSo #hra #extendedreality #augmentedreality #Metaverse

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Save the date!! Join the CEW&T XR Team + Dr. Andreas Bueckle for an interactive intro to immersive analytics and data visualization in XR—including a live VR demo! 🗓 Oct. 16 | 1:30–2:30 PM 📍 IMU State Room East 🍕 Food provided | Open to all Register: events.iu.edu/cewit/event/...

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🎉 HUGE congratulations to Supriya Bidanta for passing her qualifying exam!! 🎓🌟 What an incredible milestone! We are SO proud of you, Supriya! 👏🥳 #QualifyingExamPassed #SheDidIt

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"CNS Center is on YouTube! Watch talks, tutorials, event recordings, and videos highlighting our research and collaborations: www.youtube.com/@CNSCenter #Research #IndianaUniversity #DataViz"

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📅 Save the date! Join CNS Center virtually for the 24-hour Human Physiology Event on December 12th–13th! 🌎🫀🧠 Connect, learn, and explore human physiology with participants from around the world. 🔬💻 👉 Learn more: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... #hra #Bioinformatics

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Something new is here! This summer, we launched a brand-new website for the Whole Person Physiome effort — an initiative working to connect knowledge across human physiology and help us better understand the whole person. 🔗 Explore the new website: wholepersonphysiome.org @katyborner.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

📣 Call for Submissions | Deadline: Aug. 31, 2026 Envisioning Intelligences seeks visual works exploring how different forms of intelligence cooperate, coordinate, and shape one another. 📊 New and existing works welcome. Submit: scimaps.org/call-for-sub... @katyborner.bsky.social

“The Emotional Echo of Cultural Intelligence, 2021"—a dark-background data visualization featuring a large circular network of interconnected, color-coded pathways. An inset highlights a social media image of Baby Yoda drinking soup, illustrating how cultural content travels across media platforms and communities.

“Artificial Worldviews, 2023:—a dense network visualization on a black background composed of thousands of interconnected colored points. Bright pink and purple clusters on the left and gold clusters on the right form thematic regions labeled with topics such as politics, economics, knowledge, literature, history, geography, science, and technology.

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New in IEEEComputerSociety CG&A 🎉 “Challenges and Opportunities for Theory-Grounded Data Visualization in Extended Reality” 🔗 www.computer.org/csdl/magazin... @katyborner.bsky.social @ieeevis.bsky.social

This picture details authors for this paper. Andreas Bueckle, PhD, Christiane V.R. Hütter, Renata G. Raidou, Chris Bryan, Peter Mindek, Hannes Kaufmann, Niklas Emqvist, Jörg Menche, and Katy Börner

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who made the Human Reference Atlas (HRA) & Whole Person Physiome (WPP) Hackathon a success! Results coming soon—stay tuned! 👀 🔗 cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... @katyborner.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Today we said goodbye to an amazing teammate, Yash Jain. 💙 Thank you for your dedication, positivity, and the impact you've made at CNS. You've been a valued part of our team, and you'll be greatly missed. Wishing you all the best in your next adventure—we know you'll do amazing things! 🌟🍀

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

📣 Reminder! The Human Reference Atlas (HRA) & Whole Person Physiome (WPP) Hackathon begins Monday, Aug. 3 at Indiana University, hosted by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS). 🔗 cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

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Human Reference Atlas Hackathon

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📅 July 31 | 1–2 PM ET Join the next CFDE Public Webinar to learn how the Human Reference Atlas (HRA), developed through HuBMAP and SenNet, advances biomedical research. Featuring Daniel Bolin, Andreas Bueckle & Katy Börner. cfdeknowledge.org/r/CFDE_webin... @katyborner.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New documentation is live! 🎨 Download Human Reference Atlas logos and icons from our new Visual Assets page: docs.humanatlas.io/visual-assets #hra #opensource

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Human Reference Atlas Documentation

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

CNS is hosting the Human Reference Atlas (HRA) & Whole Person Physiome (WPP) Hackathon, Aug. 3–5, 2026, at @IULuddy Join researchers advancing AI-ready biomedical data and digital human models. 📅 August 3–5, 2026 🕗 8am - 5pm ET 🔗 cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... #HumanReferenceAtlas

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🏆Congratulations to the S-Index team led by Griffin Weber-Katy Börner, Amy Brand, Kristi Holmes, Daniel Hook, John Inglis, Chonnettia Jones, Arjun Krishnan, and Steinn Sigurdsson-on earning 3rd place in the NIH's $1M Data Sharing Index (S-Index) Challenge! 🎉 Learn more: figshare.com/articles/pre...

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Congrats to @katyborner.bsky.social and collaborators on winning Phase 1 of NIH's $1M Data Sharing Index (S-Index) Challenge! Their team earned a $15K award and advances to Phase 2. Presentations are today- the winner will be announced tomorrow! news.iu.edu/luddy/live/n... • www.nei.nih.gov/sindex

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Börner part of team to reach NIH Data Sharing Index Challenge Finals

Luddy School Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science Katy Börner is part of a multi-university team that has reached the finals of th...

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🎉Huge congratulations to Andi and the entire team! 👏After 2 years of hard work, dedication, and innovation, the preprint introducing the Human Reference Atlas (HRA): Powers of Ten virtual reality (VR) application inside the HRA Organ Gallery is now available! 🌟 Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Multiscale harmonization and semantic integration of biomedical data enable biological insights through immersive exploration

The Human Reference Atlas (HRA) enables multiscale data exploration and visualization. We present “ HRA: Powers of Ten, ” a virtual reality (VR) application for integrating, harmonizing, and visualizi...

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🎉 Today we celebrate three amazing teammates as they begin their next adventures: Michael Ginda, Yash Jain, and Yash Kumar! 👏Thank you for all you've done for CNS—you'll be greatly missed! 💙 Wishing you all the best in your new roles. We know you'll do amazing things! 🚀✨ @iuluddy.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Last week @katyborner.bsky.social, Anreas Bueckle, and Bruce Herrattended the last annual meeting of HuBMAP at NCI Shady Grove in Rockville, MD. Katy’s presentation on the HRA tool development was a success and Andi and Bruce got the crowd laughing with their 📹video 👀Look for more posts this week!

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The Human Reference Atlas 11th Release v2.5 is here! Explore the latest release: humanatlas.io/release-note... #HumanReferenceAtlas #bioinformatics #datavisualization #dataviz

Human Reference Atlas graphic announcing the 11th Release v2.5. It highlights new apps, data, and publications, with the message: “Every six months we deliver revised data and updated apps shaped by continuous feedback.” Key release numbers include 26 consortia, 250+ experts, 1000+ publications, 16 apps, 347 digital objects, 1 knowledge graph, 85 organs, 4,807 anatomical structures, 2,215 cell types, 1,347 biomarkers, 29 functional tissue units, and 38 organ mapping antibody panels.
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Human Reference Atlas 11th Release v2.5 graphic introducing 3D functional tissue units. Two 3D renderings show a glomerulus, a kidney functional tissue unit, with the caption: “3D functional tissue unit: Glomerulus.”

Human Reference Atlas 11th Release v2.5 graphic announcing a new publication in Nature Scientific Data: “Cell Type Populations for 3D Anatomical Structures of the Human Reference Atlas.” The image includes a QR code and DOI link to read the publication.

Human Reference Atlas 11th Release v2.5 graphic announcing the HRA Time Capsule, a downloadable, citable snapshot of the HRA Knowledge Graph that preserves each release for long-term access and use. Developers can use it to create local installations, mirror websites, and custom deployments without external infrastructure. The image includes a QR code and DOI link to get the package.

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

SenNet, a research consortium, funded by NIH, was created in 2021 to identify and catalog senescent cells- cells that stop dividing but remain active in the body. @katyborner.bsky.social and Yash Jain presented talks at the annual conference in DC. #nih #SenNet #senescent #senotype

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@katyborner.bsky.social presented “Mapping the Human Reference Atlas in 3D” this morning at @netsciconf.bsky.social, held at @northeasternu.bsky.social. During her presentation, she spoke about what the HRA is and how to construct and use it. For more info, go to humanatlas.io @iuluddy.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This evening from 5:20pm-5:35pm, @katyborner.bsky.social will be presenting The Visible Human MOOC: Visualizing Human Anatomy and Physiology Across 1010 Scales" at NetSci 2026 at @northeasternu.bsky.social University. The MOOC is an online course @iuluddy.bsky.social. 380 students have registered!

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@katyborner.bsky.social will give a lightning talk from 3:55-4:00pm EDT at NetSci 2026 in Boston, MA entitled “Envisioning Intelligences: Inviting discussions of collective intelligence visualizations” where she will focus on the three decades of Places & Spaces: Envisioning Intelligences exhibit.

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of our PhD students, Paean Luby, has been collaborating with the University of Galway’s Pathology students on a virtual reality workflow of a cardiac autopsy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJTg... @universityofgalway.bsky.social @iuluddy.bsky.social

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Virtual Reality Cardiac Autopsy- Collaboration with The University of Galway

YouTube video by Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS)

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hour 9: (8pm) - Extended Plant Cognition youtu.be/WpnCAHRqd8I?... Our speaker Anna, talks about the work at the MINT lab (Minimal Intelligence Lab) and their work on collective intelligences in forest ecosystems. To find other hours of the 24 Hour event: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Come visit the CNS Booth at the Luddy Techfest! 📍4012, Luddy Hall Visualizing Science - 10AM to 1PM Step Inside the Human Body: A VR Organ Exploration - 1PM to 4PM #techfest #VR #dataviz

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Join us for a birthday celebration honoring Amatria, the iconic sculpture installed in Luddy Hall in 2018. She symbolizes the Luddy School’s vision of humans and artificial intelligence learning and innovating together. Time: Fri April 17, 10-11 am ET iu.zoom.us/j/87315100071

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Join Andreas Bueckle and the IU Center of Excellence for Women & Technology for a Hands on Data Visualization Session using Power BI 📅Wednesday, 1st April 🕓5PM - 6PM ET 📍Room 221, Swain West, IUB 🔗 Register: events.iu.edu/cewit/event/... #dataviz #research #PowerBI

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Hour 8: (7pm) Video Games and Intelligence - youtu.be/JZaf5WmjJfQ?... Our panelists talk about how intelligence appears in video games, making it an immersive experience and what the future in gaming looks like. To find other hours of the 24 Hour event: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hour 2: youtu.be/dMUf0RoiXow?... Our speakers talk about their work with Embodied Intelligence, Visualizing Non-human Interaction, and how Intelligence Involves Exploration. To find other hours of the 24 Hour event: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... @katyborner.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The HRA Hackathon, held from March 9 - 11, was a huge success! Website: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... 👏 Huge thanks to everyone who contributed their time, expertise, and energy to make this hackathon a success! @katyborner.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Hour 6: (6pm) Plant Intelligence - youtu.be/7C9KpbQQV-U?... Our speaker Roger talks about the the Intelligence of Plants and other life forms that are interdependent To find other hours of the 24 Hour event visit: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... @katyborner.bsky.social #biology #collaboration

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🧬 Researchers from IU Luddy co-authored a paper confirming Human Reference Atlas compliance, strengthening infrastructure used to map the human body across organs, tissues, and cells. 🔗https://news.iu.edu/luddy/live/news/49218-luddy-co-authored-paper-confirms-human-reference

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Juhi Khare from CNS gave a talk on Emerging Technologies which also included an interactive session that explored how virtual reality (VR) can move us beyond flat interfaces, offering new ways to see, feel, and understand complex information through immersive spatial design.

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

📚 We’re excited to share that Atlas of Macroscopes: Interactive Data Visualizations has been spotted on the new non-fiction shelf at the Monroe County Public Library (Indiana) - Downtown! @mcplindiana.bsky.social @katyborner.bsky.social #dataViz #dataVisualization #hci #ux

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Hour 5: (5pm) Visualizing System(s) - youtu.be/1Al50NEslU8?... Adam Bly, talks about how his team at System is building foundational knowledge infrastructure to transform the world from silos to systems. To find other hours of the 24 Hour event visit: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20...

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Hour 4: (4pm) Creative Intelligence - youtu.be/YJYt4KD6_6M?... Our speaker Jacob talks about Creative Intelligence and how one can connect creativity to the idea of visualization and envisioning. To find other hours of the 24 Hour event visit: youtube.com/playlist?lis... @katyborner.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The new feature for the Cell Distance Explorer app: Spatial Omics Gallery is now live!🎉 Explore the new Spatial Omics Gallery: apps.humanatlas.io/cde/gallery Read the preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #research #collaboration #biomed @katyborner.bsky.social

Promotional graphic from the Human Reference Atlas introducing the Spatial Omics Gallery and the Cell Distance Explorer feature. The image shows a grid of colorful single-cell spatial omics visualizations—dense cellular patterns, radiating structures, and clustered cells derived from spatial proteomics and spatial transcriptomics datasets. Text highlights analysis of cell-to-nearest-endothelial-cell distances across 14 studies, 12 tissue types, 399 datasets, and over 47 million cells.

Promotional graphic from the Human Reference Atlas announcing a new bioRxiv preprint titled “Exploring endothelial cell environments across organs in spatially resolved omics data.” The design features abstract, vibrant single-cell spatial omics imagery in pinks, blues, and purples, representing spatial proteomics and transcriptomics data. A QR code and DOI link are included for accessing the preprint.

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

✨Join Juhi Khare, Product Designer at CNS as she gives a talk on VR. 📅Wednesday, 18th Feb 🕓12PM - 1:30PM ET 📍159, Herman B Wells Library, IU 🔗Register Now: events.iu.edu/cewit/event/... #virtualreality #datavisualization #biomed #WomenInTech

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Hour 3: (2pm) Visualizing Intelligence(s) - youtu.be/HKjyL9kDDtU?... Andreas Bueckle, demonstrates Amatria - an ‘Intelligent Sculpture’ by Philip Beesley and team that is installed at @IULuddy Hall. To find other hours of the 24 Hour event visit: www.youtube.com/@CNSCenter/p...

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Demo Day this last Friday was bittersweet as we celebrated our team’s achievements and bid farewell to some of our teammates. We are grateful for their contributions to CNS and wish them all the best for the next chapter! @katyborner.bsky.social #research #Collaboration #NextChapter

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

✨Check out the HuBMAP Data Portal Workshop held on 29th Jan 2026. The workshop recording is now available : youtu.be/6v2WfLL62Fk?... Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1RiTN... @iuluddy.bsky.social @kpmproject.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The 24hr "Envisioning Intelligences” Event was a success!🎉✨ Hour 1: (12pm) Introduction by Exhibit Curators & Advisors - youtu.be/x3Y2bhltXZ8?... @katyborner.bsky.social @boriseldagsen.bsky.social @interactivethings.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Come learn more about Human Reference Atlas (HRA) user interfaces, our powerful API, and our Jupyter widgets in the HuBMAP Portal Workshop tomorrow, 29 Jan 2026. Time: 11AM-3:15PM Register: hubmapconsortium.org/january-2026... @kpmproject.bsky.social @katyborner.bsky.social @bherr2.bsky.social

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In this episode of the BioRevolution podcast, Katy Börner joins Andreas Horchler and Louise von Stechow to discuss why visualization + interpretation + communication of data matter just as much as data collection—and how macroscopes can help us make sense of our world. YouTube: youtu.be/ShxV6a5v2L8

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Excited to share our new paper! Our team presents a general strategy for creating expert-curated, simplified views of complex biomedical ontologies, making these reference resources more FAIR 🎉 Congratulations to the entire team! 🔗 Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The 10th release of the Human Reference Atlas is now live! See what's new at humanatlas.io/release-note... 🎉 #dataviz #datavisualization #HRA

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CNS Center @cnscenter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Join co-author Katy Borner for a conversation about the Atlas of Macroscopes which takes you on an epic data adventure and showcases interactive data visualizations at the Queens Public Library in New York 12/23/25 @ 3pm #datavisualization #HCI #UX @katyborner.bsky.social @qplnyc.bsky.social

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