Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Incredible effort behind this, more options for VIS! 021
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I hear reVISit works pretty well for replication studies! (But folks should submit regardless— big fan of the VISxVISION community and papers 👁️ 📊) 020
Reposted by Lane HarrisonDominikus @handle.invalid · 14/11/2025What are your favorite examples for people using #datavis to tell about aspects/parts/events of their lives? 773
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social · 12/11/2025(would watch a 30-minute news segment on this sort of analysis...) 110
Reposted by Lane HarrisonKhoury Vis Lab @ Northeastern University @khouryvis.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Find out what happens when “A Priest, a Rabbi, and an Atheist Walk Into an Error Bar 🍸”. Join @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy & @laneh.bsky.social for their religious meditations on uncertainty visualization at alt.VIS, Sunday 9 AM - 12:30 PM! #ieeevis #uncertaintyvis arxiv.org/abs/2509.08213 111
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAlark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Revisit by @laneh.bsky.social and team is an excellent option. It requires some configuration and setup, but it works beautifully and all your data stays on your server. (revisit.dev)revisit.devHome | ReVISitreVISit: Reproducible and Powerful Visualization User Studies 083
Reposted by Lane HarrisonThe Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025here's a preprint of the unhinged paper i wrote with @lane we stop just short of saying that the unthinking use of frequentist statistics puts your very soul at hazard arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08213 062
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAlexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The reVISit team will be hosting an open hackathon at TU Graz in Austria, immediately after IEEE VIS from Monday November 10 to Wednesday November 13. Anyone interested in contributing to reVISit is invited to participate! 131
Reposted by Lane HarrisonThe Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025spent a chunk of today making biblically accurate error bars 182
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Super love seeing regional datavis events making a comeback (and happy to be in town!) -> 010
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAlexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Going to #CHI2025 in Japan? Interested in running user studies? Sign up for our virtual CHI 2025 course that teaches you how to use reVISit, a new, open-source user study tool reducing the tedium of study design. Come learn through some practical examples. cvent.me/g5mx2w revisit.dev 263
Reposted by Lane Harrisonjonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 31/03/2025Tactile charts are an important tool for conveying data to blind and low vision people via embossed paper. However, tactile charts require high levels of time and expertise to design. Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen news.mit.edu/2025/making-...news.mit.eduA new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readersDesigned to help blind and low-vision readers understand graphics, the “Tactile Vega-Lite” system from MIT CSAIL converts data into a standard visual graph and a tactile chart. Accessibility standards... 23215
Reposted by Lane HarrisonMatthew Kay @mjskay.com · 30/03/2025behold the CONNECTED SPLATTERPIE kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair 3439268
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social · 19/03/20251) Cool VIS study, 2) Help our replication effort! -> 002
Reposted by Lane HarrisonPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Country Noises. (Saul Steinberg, 1979) saulsteinbergfoundation.org 222558
Reposted by Lane HarrisonMoritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025"…there’s one nut we have not been able to crack: anchoring bespoke data visualization as a full fledged profession in corporate settings." Re-reading this article from 2017 (medium.com/visualizing-...), I wonder — where are we at 8 years on?medium.comThere be dragons: dataviz in the industryI started being serious about data visualization around 2005, when the field was still pretty niche and people like Martin Wattenberg, Ben… 5299
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Slightly annoying when a paper describing an experiment doesn't include a screenshot of the actual task participants performed. (I wrote the paper in question 🫠...) 000
Reposted by Lane HarrisonCarlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 08/02/2025This ggplot chart was generated without any theming support, *at all*. 2245
Reposted by Lane HarrisonMaarten Lambrechts @maartenzam.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Any freelance Svelte/data visualization developers among my followers? Looking for someone with some availability, starting in a couple of months 92317
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social · 31/01/2025ReVISit 2.0 (revisit.dev) reached several exciting milestones recently: 📁 You can now define an entire experiment in a single file— from trial data, stimuli (visualizations and interactions, thanks to Vega-Altair), study blocks/sequences and randomization, questionnaires, etc. 143
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Crowdsourced Think-aloud Studies w/ full interaction provenance+rehydration, auto voice transcription, and correlation between timelines. That plus a pile of new features and capabilities in the reVISit 2.0 release. Check it out & let us know what you think! 031
Reposted by Lane HarrisonCarlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 18/01/2025More LLM reflections I think a useful model is "everything that in-house counsel is not" In-house counsel doesn't know how to say yes to you; they're entirely made of blood-soaked wisdom. LLMs are excitable improv comedy partners with more memory than wisdom; they don't know how to say no to you. 3448
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Still buzzing about the progress the team has made on reVISit over this workshop. Looking forward to sharing new features for creating & instrumenting vis experiments in our upcoming 2.0 release 👀 061
Reposted by Lane HarrisonThe Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2025does anybody have pointers for good papers/blog posts (other than @tamara process&pitfalls + dsm papers, which we [gratefully!] use already) on "how to teach people to write academic hci/vis research papers that don't suck"? 011
Reposted by Lane HarrisonDominikus @handle.invalid · 07/01/2025#genuary7 „Use software that is not intended to create art or images.“ Did you know that there's tons of one-color videos like "4 Hours of Red" on YouTube? And that you can control browser windows using AppleScript? And that none of these things are intended to create art? #genuary2025 #genuary 1274
Reposted by Lane HarrisonDatawrapper @datawrapper.de · 17/12/2024End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁 blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispat… and tell us: what were your favorites? 27426
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAnn Pregler @annpregler.com · 16/12/2024I drew these for the #datafam holiday card exchange, but figured I'd share them for others to use too! Put them on your cards, gift tags, or anywhere that needs a little more #dataviz 📊 1338685
Reposted by Lane HarrisonNiklas Elmqvist @nelmqvist.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Us #ieeevis 2025 OPCs worked hard on this: the new call for papers is now live! ieeevis.org/year/2025/ye... Submit your best work! Brief account of changes for 2025: * Extra week for supplemental material * Student reviewer program * Opt-in publication of reviews for accepted papersieeevis.org 287
Reposted by Lane HarrisonMartin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024How can we visualize what a book ISN'T talking about? With an anti-tag cloud! See the most common English words that are never mentioned in a text. www.bewitched.com/demo/anti/bewitched.comAnti-Tag CloudVisualize the negative space of literary works 716532
Reposted by Lane HarrisonXan Gregg @xangregg.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Another #dataviz from the ceiling height paper's data with an interesting pattern: density dot plot of the final course grades for two years of students, using hex grid jitter. 50 must be an important result at these Australian universities. 0356
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAlexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Because tis the season for grad-school applications: re-surfacing my blog-post on how to prepare for CS grad school while you're still in college: vdl.sci.utah.edu/blog/2020/11... In brief: get engaged with faculty, as a TA or as a research assistant as soon as possible.vdl.sci.utah.eduWhat you Can do in College to get into a CS PhD ProgramAre you considering grad school? Here are a few steps you can take to maximize your chances. The bad news is that it’s best to start planning and working towards getting into grad school early: I reco... 021
Reposted by Lane HarrisonRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024This is interesting: researchers at MIT used generative AI plus elevation and a physics model to create plausible images of potential flooding: climate-viz.github.io More info: news.mit.edu/2024/new-ai-... 🛰️ 0236
Reposted by Lane HarrisonMatthew Kay @mjskay.com · 26/11/2024This is a great point, and was one reason @abhsarma.bsky.social (with me + @jessicahullman.bsky.social) built a multiverse analysis tool that tries to help experts understand and evaluate the validity of subsets of a multiverse, rather than just shrugging: "enh, results vary" doi.org/10.1145/3613... 58430
Reposted by Lane HarrisonMax Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 21/11/2024We've just made it much easier to reuse the data on Our World in Data. Here is an overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API. ourworldindata.org/easier-to-re...ourworldindata.orgWe've made it much easier to reuse our dataAn overview of our new features: enhanced data downloads and the Chart Data API. 9380106
Reposted by Lane Harrisona ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 21/11/2024my take on bringing HCI to PL blog.sigplan.org/2024/11/21/e...blog.sigplan.orgEvaluating Human Factors Beyond Lines of CodeSoftware systems researchers want to make human-centered claims, but don’t have the proper tools to do so. That’s how we ended up with the ubiquitous lines-of-code comparison found in e… 26529
Reposted by Lane HarrisonTim Gerrits @dertimgerrits.bsky.social · 22/11/2024The 2025 SciVis Contest Data is available! If you/your team/your students are looking for an exciting visualization challenge (it's about helping scientists develop new, sustainable materials), take a look at the contest data: sciviscontest2025.github.io #Visualization #IEEEVIS #SciVis #Contest 143
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAlexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 11/11/2024I made a data visualization academics starter pack! go.bsky.app/wzjzNi Let me know who I should add. #datavis 1910338
Reposted by Lane HarrisonMatthew Kay @mjskay.com · 08/11/2024I like this way of presenting ordinal data! I think people are sometimes too quick to use stacked bar charts for ordinal data when histograms can be simpler and easier to read #datavis #rstats 35712
Reposted by Lane HarrisonEvan Peck @peck.phd · 08/11/2024I'm struck by how much more visualization effort is applied in elections to contextualize people by their race & ethnicity, age, education, geography, rural vs. urban, etc. It's impressive the nuance + attention we are able to summon when we want people to vote like us. 011
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAlper Sarikaya @alper.datav.is · 30/10/2024Hi new website! I'm Alper and I work on the Power BI Core Visuals team as an software engineer at Microsoft. I try to bridge the gap between research and practice in driving effective visualization authoring and consumption experiences for people of varying data and visual fluency. 1165
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAlexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 18/10/2024UpSet won the #ieeevis InfoVis 10-year test of time award 🎉. Thanks to @ngehlenborg.bsky.social @henstr.bsky.social Romain Vuillemot, and Hanspeter Pfister for being an awesome team to work with on this. I wrote up my reflections on what made UpSet successful: vdl.sci.utah.edu/blog/2024/10...vdl.sci.utah.eduReflections on UpSetThis blog post was triggered by UpSet winning the 10-year Test of Time Award at IEEE VIS. In this post, I reflect on how UpSet came about, and what made it successful. 13514
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAndrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2024I'm excited to announce the release of our tool Color Buddy! It’s a vis color palette designer built on good color science (incl. spaces like LAB/OKLCH) AND it has modern favs like direct manip & AI fiddles. Spicier: it checks your palette (for a11y/design/etc issues) as you go! 89631
Reposted by Lane HarrisonVIEW Lab @viewlab.bsky.social · 13/10/2024↔️ How are #datavis designed in RTL languages like Arabic? 📜 Muna Alebri @curiouslemur.bsky.social @laneh.bsky.social analysed charts from Arabic journals & discuss the design patterns wrt directionalities 📍Follow our talk on Thu, Oct. 17-1015 EDT #BayshoreIV 🔗https://shorturl.at/AsfLK #ieeevis 053
Reposted by Lane HarrisonAlexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 11/10/2024Run better user studies with reVISIT! reVISit lets you quickly design, publish, and disseminate your customized visualization studies. Your study will be fully reproducible too. Join our #IEEEVIS tutorial at 12pm EDT on Sunday, 10/13 to get started with reVISit. ieeevis.org/year/2024/pr...ieeevis.orgVirtual IEEE VIS 2024 - Event: Running Online User Studies with the reVISit FrameworkSee the conference event and its associated sessions and presentations inside. 184
Reposted by Lane HarrisonRobert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 04/10/2024I love seeing NASA Earth Observatory images showing up in places like NPR! Satellite images show Helene’s devastation is visible from space www.npr.org/2024/10/04/n... 0104
Reposted by Lane HarrisonSonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social · 03/10/2024Sign of the times? I guess they couldn't not create 3D graphs in 1979, the whole Atlas of Earth Resources I just bought is full of them 😍😅. Often unnecessary and a bit over the top but the work it must have took is admirable 👏 #dataviz #graphs ( @infowetrust.com @datavisfriendly.bsky.social) 0124
Reposted by Lane HarrisonIEEE VIS @ieeevis.org · 01/10/2024Dear VIS Community, we have great news! After a busy weekend, we completed an emergency site visit at a new conference venue in the Tampa area. We are moving ahead with the new venue and will provide specifics once the contract is finalized, around the end of the week! 153
