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Eytan Adar

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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 27/08/2026
Naoshima island, 2025
Naoshima island, Pumpkin
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 25/08/2026
We are running a UIST workshop on revibing--the idea that technical HCI papers can be reconstructed from the paper itself. We're interested in the implications for evaluation, research, and education. Join us! revibe-hci.github.io
A recruiting poster for the Revibing HCI workshop, see all the details at: https://revibe-hci.github.io/
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 11/02/2026
Almost a year to the day since I last posted this. An admonishment by Mao's government to the China's statisticians on the need for "statistics with particular Party character." (Chinese newspaper in '61)
"Third, they have to properly combine Comrade Mao's thoughts on investigation and study to the statistical operations, and to properly combine Mao Tse-tung's thoughts with the abundant practices of statistical work in our country in creating a series of all-new and unified scientific socialist statistics with the particular Party character."
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 23/09/2025
We also extended this idea to build a Contrastive QuizRank. Instead of just considering what is interesting about the concept (e.g., the Western Bluebird), we let the LLM figure out what makes it different from a "distractor" (e.g., the Mountain Bluebird). (4/5)
Image of a mountain bluebird which is entirely blue
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 23/09/2025
Fun paper from a recent project with UMich alumni Tenghao Ji. Can we pick better images for Wikipedia articles? Given all the choices in the Wikipedia Commons, which image is best as an "instructional aid?" (1/5)
An image of a male western bluebird. The chest is a brown color and the back and head are blue.
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 17/07/2025
I'm very curious... Are cheese curlers often used in the bathtub? Was the art director like, "how do I show that our cheese curler is rust proof?"
An Amazon ad for a cheese curler being used in a bathtub
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 23/06/2025
I'm not sure who recommended it to me, but let me pass it on since it was a fun read: "Get the Picture" by Bianca Bosker
Cover for Get the Picture book,
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 06/06/2025
One more for your collection, Lecons de Statique Graphique, Favaro, 1885
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 05/06/2025
Lotka, 1926... so "contemporary" :)
3d plot of model of age distribution in US population
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 12/12/2024
Google easter egg made me think I was having a vertigo episode. Very tipsy. Very funny.
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 16/10/2024
What happens when everyone in the conference is trying to get at the proceedings #UIST2024
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 08/07/2024
I understand "after hours" access door; Or after hours "access" door; Or after hours access "door." But why "after hours access door?" Famous quote by LS&A?
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 16/04/2024
Sad end to a beautiful building. Picture from last summer. www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/style/copenh…
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 19/03/2024
Academic twitter right now. (FWIW, I am sorry for all who aren't getting in where you want. I know it's hard.)
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 15/08/2023
Sara (@dubadar) was just on live Australian TV talking about her lab's new dementia and pollution study! The kids and I watched it from downstairs
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 05/04/2023
A powerful feature of this is that we can specify what to generate for each mark but still have the whole thing look cohesive. Here's a pie chart with each segment as tulips, roses, daisies, and sunflowers
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 05/04/2023
And a pie chart as a city-scape from above:
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 05/04/2023
A network diagram as sea shells:
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 05/04/2023
Want a way to generate stylized visualizations? We just wrapped up a project to transform existing visualizations using text prompts. viz2viz is the work of @kolvacs_wu and @john_jyc. Here's a bar chart as a bunch of peppers:
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 01/04/2023
Do I get to put our contribution to Twitter's "algorithm" in my annual report? (Cc/ @ladamic ) :)
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 07/03/2023
visualization versus perspective (from Poland, 1967)
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 25/12/2022
Eccentric billionaires do as eccentric billionaires do. 1999 to 2022.
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 25/11/2022
Illusory orange or optical illusions in fruit sales. The red mesh bag makes the fruit look uniformly bright and orange. In reality the fruit are less bright and splotched with green. Probably obvious, but I never noticed.
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 06/11/2022
Expanding my old visualization book collection with "Venn Diagrams" (for kids). 1972 by Froman
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 24/10/2022
When this first popped up I read it as: "large language models can improve abs" and my first thought was not "I read that wrong" but "what can't they do?"
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 20/10/2022
The book itself is fascinating. You can see it here: wellcomecollection.org/works/zv8e43…. I only managed to collect the one page. The rest of them have really amazing diagrams for sign language and other ideas on sensory teaching. 3/n
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 20/10/2022
A historical vis for you graph visualization lovers (with an interesting accessibility topic). A sort-of social network from 1844. From "Versinnlichte Denk- und Sprachlehre: mit Anwendung auf die Religions- und Sittenlehre und auf das Leben" by Franz Herrmann Cžech 1/n #ieeevis
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 18/10/2022
If you teach infovis and use a “final project” type assignment, you might be interested in our paper/presentation tomorrow. It’s a game setup where student teams build visualizations to compete in acquiring robots on a remote planet. #ieeevis (1/3)
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 26/09/2022
On the politics of stats/vis. Advice to "statistical workers" from an editorial in a Chinese newspaper from 1961:
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 04/09/2022
Aurora over Intermediate Lake, MI (admittedly, barely visible with the naked eye, this is Android's astrophotography mode)
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 02/08/2022
And why stop there? We can feed that prompt back into the system... 8/n
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 02/08/2022
At this point we though: why not take the description and change it back into a prompt. GPT-3 thinks a good prompt would be: "a bottle of ketchup with a face, sitting on a throne made of other ketchup bottles" #dalle 7/n
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 02/08/2022
Prompt: "a photograph of a group of people worshipping a bottle of sauce" (slightly modified from: www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/vu…) 6/n
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 02/08/2022
Prompt: "a man in a suit and sunglasses rising a giant kitten in the movie The Matrix" (www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/vu…) 5/n
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 02/08/2022
Prompt: "Painting of a fish holding an apple and sunbathing on the beach" (miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*s-nznuAO…) 4/n
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 02/08/2022
Prompt: "Profile of a handsome man and woman with double exposure of wolf and cougar with Light Painting and bokeh background." (www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/vv…) 3/n
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 02/08/2022
What more appropriate to train the model than to use a description of Dali's Persistence of Memory (found on web): 2/n
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 25/07/2022
going to see what happens if I can get to $.00000000000000001 from free shipping (fwiw, they don't sell anything in fractional dollars)
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 15/06/2022
New Yorker cartoon where the punchline is "the dog did it"
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 20/05/2022
I have an alert for articles related to my interests on Semantic Scholar. And look at what Elizabeth Bennett and Ron Weasley just published... ;) (cc/@NElmqvist and @dsweld ).
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 17/05/2022
For those unfamiliar with my history of X kills kittens:
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 17/05/2022
Somehow I knew this would happen when I started typing. Dall-e mini kills kittens.
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 16/03/2022
Here's a picture of Ev presenting. Some of you may recognize the image in the background. I still have my "wearing my twitter shirt" somewhere that was a leftover he brought from SXSW. 4/4
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 16/02/2022
Vis from a very long article basically saying, "we don't know" (cc/ @LacePadilla )
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 19/11/2021
Meditation for Academic Authors (v0.5)
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 17/11/2021
I ran HCI Conference through OpenAI's two-sentence horror story generator. This is what it said:
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 16/06/2021
Super proud of @Licia_He for an awesome dissertation defense. She'll be heading to @vizlabTAMU in the fall as an Assistant Professor. If you're interested in how digital tools can be used to create physical crafts, follow her work!
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 22/02/2021
Bug? cool new uncertainty vis I don't know about? tsunami about to hit Ann Arbor?
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 10/02/2021
Caught some impeachment vis today
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Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof · 05/10/2020
Important Legislation in the US Affecting Women and Children, 1917 (from: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/10037…)
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