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Andrew McNutt

@mcnuttandrew.bsky.social
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Professing at University of Utah vis/hci/programming interfaces (He/his) mcnutt.in

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 13h
Anthropic: We have created Artificial Intelligence. Me: You fucked up a perfectly good Markov chain is what you did. Look at it. It’s got anxiety.
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Joe Murphy @joemurph.com · 29/09/2026
JOBS: CNBC is hiring: 1. A data viz journalist jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Versant3/744... 2. A senior editor for data viz jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Versant3/744...
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 28/09/2026
Lovely and deep visual op-ed by Giorgia Lupi: "A.I. is a different kind of technology, because it can deliver an end result before creative thinking has happened at all" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | A.I. Shortcuts Are Ruining How We Think (Gift Article)
Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I share a version of this with my grad classes each year, but my attribution is Kant via Spivak. 1985. academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/...
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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do you like VIS/HCI/programming interfaces? Do you care about critical visualization? Or perhaps building dynamic data interfaces? Perhaps some combo therein? If so! I'm hiring for Ph.D. student to work with me at UBC starting Fall 2027! You should apply! www.mcnutt.in#/hiring-26
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Andrew McNutt
Andrew McNutt is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, where he leads the HAVOC Lab and works on HCI, visualization, and programming interfaces.
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Information Plus Conference @infoplusconf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Information+ 2027 is coming to Milan! Join us on 7-9 June 2027 at Politecnico di Milano for three days of presentations, talks, workshops and exhibition pieces around information design and data visualization. The website is now live: informationplusconference.com #InformationPlus2027
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/09/2026
Update: the dialect map quiz thing going around is a cheap knockoff of the good one, which is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
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boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The concept of ‘language levels’ from racket is, to me, one of the great unsung ideas in computing. Imagine photoshop with extensible affordances gated to your current skill level, or a coding harness, or R studio, or a browser, or a terminal. To me it would be the welcome anti-philosophy to RTFM
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Alexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The reVISit team is currently in Portland, Maine to work on version 3! It’s fun to come back to NorthEastern’s Roux institute – where we had our very first retreat to get reVISit started.
Group picture of the revisit team with 10 ppl.
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Interested in narrative data visualisation? We're looking for a PhD candidate to join our team at the Center for Digital Narrative, with me and @lauragarrison.bsky.social as supervisors. Apply by 30 August! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Narrative Data Visualisation (303954), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, August 30, 2026
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Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 05/08/2026
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life. bit.ly/4fUv6Fk
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Can zines help us resist the slop overtaking the Internet? - Chicago Reader
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life.
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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
this fucking rules too, honestly. bless dropout for it
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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Some big news: I’ve accepted a position at University of British Columbia 🇨🇦🇨🇦!! I’ll be starting at the beginning of next year (Jan 2027). I’m delighted to return to the pacific northwest (my home) and overwhelmingly excited to get to work with such a thriving and vibrant department
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Alexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I wrote a blog post, “Beyond the Demo: Building Visualization Research Software That Lasts”, based on a keynote I gave at VisGap at EuroVis in Nottingham last month. It reflects on what it takes to build visualization software that survives beyond the paper. www.visdesignlab.net/blog/2026/07...
Illustration splitting projects into successes - datavisyn, reVISit, and UpSet; and failures - Caleydo and Multinet.
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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 14/07/2026
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org in Fall 2027. I've updated this post with additional information about this year's focus area. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
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Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2027
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
goals
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WSDOT @wsdot.wa.gov · 15/06/2026
WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.
A hot mess of colorful scribbles all over a map of Washington, featuring doodles of iconic Washington features like mountains, orcas, ferries, cherries, onions, and other produce. The map emphasizes the busyness of the Seattle area, I-5, I-90, US 2, and the U.S./Canada border during the World Cup games.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This wonderful work shows an AI-assisted workflow that could reduce reproducibility check cost and time by orders of magnitude. Soon, large-scale projects like SCORE may only be needed for training and validation evidence. Talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijad... Paper www.leoyang.org/publication/...
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Keynote: Yiqing Xu
YouTube video by Stanford Data Science
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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Something cool: at IEEE VIS this year the VIS X Vision workshop (visxvision.com/vis-2026/) has a track for replications of prior studies Even cooler: they suggest using revisit (revisit.dev) as the platform for those replications. If yr revisit curious, this is a special opportunity to try it out
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VIS 2026
We’re excited to announce that VISxVISION will be hosting a workshop at IEEE VIS 2026! It will include keynote, paper talks, and a panel discussion. The theme of the workshop this year is: Leveragi…
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Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute @sci.utah.edu · 10/06/2026
👏 Congrats to SCI's Andrew McNutt, who recently received the 2026 Johanna Beyer EuroVis Early Career Researcher Award! The @eurovisconf.bsky.social distinction means @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social has already made notable contributions to the field and is likely to make more. Details: bit.ly/sci-mcnutt
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SCI’s Andrew McNutt Receives EuroVis Early Career Award - Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
Adapted from the European Association for Computer Graphics announcement The European Association for Computer Graphics this week named University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Instit...
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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 08/06/2026
We’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig
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qntm @qntm.org · 30/05/2026
There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs
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Joyce Robbins @jtrnyc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
📣 Call for submissions: Grand Unified Grammar of Graphics (GUGOG) workshop at #IEEEVIS2026! Share your work on vis grammars: position papers (<4pp) or discussion abstracts (500 words). Non-archival. Deadline: Aug 1. 🔗 gugog-vis.github.io/2026/ #dataviz #GrammarOfGraphics #ggplot2 #VegaLite
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Grand Unified Grammar of Graphics (GUGOG) – GUGOG @ IEEE VIS 2026
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Observable @observablehq.com · 20/05/2026
In this notebook, @laotzunami.bsky.social visualizes a state space of possible chart types and transitions among them along defined edges. Transitions between unconnected types are achieved by routing through intermediate types. observablehq.com/d/3c8b082818...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13/05/2026
“A citation is a formal assertion of a relationship between works, and when that relationship is fabricated, the integrity of the entire document and the scholarly record is compromised.”
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Michael Homer @mwh.nz · 06/05/2026
Are you working to make programming more direct, tangible, and alive? Share your work at LIVE, the world's premier gathering on live programming, held online this October! LIVE welcomes submissions from academia, industry, and individuals. Call for submissions and more details on liveprog.org/
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Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)
The 12th Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2026) will take place online. LIVE invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming.
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
Screenshot of a paper's title page. Title: "The Difference Between 'Replicable' and 'Not replicable' is not Itself Scientifically Replicable". Authors: Berna Devezer and Erkan O. Buzbas, both at the University of Idaho — Devezer in the Department of Business and the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, Buzbas in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science. Authors contributed equally. Corresponding author: bdevezer@uidaho.edu.
Abstract: Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that matter and do not share a single common data-generating process. We formalize two statistical interpretations of this non-exactness. In a shared latent rate model (benchmark), experiments are exchangeable and depend on a common random replicability rate. In a conditionally independent rates model (operational), each experiment has its own replicability rate drawn independently from a population distribution. Under the shared latent rate model, even small variability among replicability rates induces an irreducible variance floor on the estimated mean replicability rate that cannot be eliminated by adding more replications. Under the conditionally independent rates model, the degree of non-exactness is not identifiable from standard replication data, because one binary verdict per experiment contains no information about between-experiment heterogeneity. Researchers therefore cannot tell which precision regime they are operating in or whether high- and low-replicability sequences can be distinguished in principle. As a result, the usual data structure of one binary verdict per experiment cannot support reliable demarcation between "replicable" and "not replicable" results and systematically understates uncertainty, making high- and low-replicability sequences appear discrim…
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 29/04/2026
This video of @hankgreen.bsky.social crashing out for 30 straight minutes over graph manipulation & rhetoric makes me feel very seen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgD...
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A Masterclass in Manipulation
YouTube video by Hank Green
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 23/04/2026
gotta keep iterating on the STS program shirt design, probably
a complicated diagram from bruno latour, showing nature, society, and a bunch of circles and lines, over meme text:

BORN TO DELEGATE
DETERMINISM IS A FUCK
Situated Knowledges 1988

I am sociotechnical man
410,757,869,530 DEAD FACTS
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891
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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
hey that's my high school! the ol alma matter lookin great
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 18/03/2026
I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...
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Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
DIY Methods, our little conference-by-zine about unconventional approaches to research, rises again! Maybe you'd like to make a zine on your weird/cool approach to methods, and receive a bundle of similarly weird/cool zines in the mail? Pitch submissions are due April 20th. diymethods.net
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DIY Methods 2024
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/03/2026
Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Am I accidentally building a Color OS? :D Different needs require different stats, so I decided to let users rearrange, show, or hide color stats however they want.
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Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net · 13/03/2026
a computer cannot have nemeses therefore a computer must not be trusted with scholarly sensemaking
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Andrew Head @andrewhead.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
HCI summer research opportunity 📣 My group has two openings for research assistants this summer, both in scientific tools for thought. Applicants are welcome at any level. Please help me share the news! andrewhead.info/positions/20...
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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 11/12/2024
“But don’t get distracted by all this; the software was intended to kill people.” — @calebhearth.com
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Don't Get Distracted
I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.
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Alexander Bandukwala @bandukwala.me · 27/02/2026
I’m looking for participants for a paid user study on a prototype system for tabular programming (programming with tables / data frames). 2 hours • $50 Visa prepaid card Hoping to finish sessions by March 13. Details + sign up in 🧵 Reposts appreciated! 🙏
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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
tired: et al. wired: and friends hired: et am(icis)
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Won the supey, played like poopy @moosebigelow.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Post old memes to confuse young people
you're the man now dog!
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
Image of Charles Darwin quotes, with the recipient of the letter and the date the letter was written. He said "I hate every wave of the ocean" to W.D. Fox on 15 February 1836, "Oh my God how I do hate species and varieties" to J.D. Hooker in 11 March 1858, "I am very tired, very stomachy, and hate nearly the whole world" to Thomas Huxley on 10 September 1860, "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" to Charles Lyell on 1 October 1861, "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" to John Lubbock on 3 September 1862, and "I am languid and bedeviled and hate writing and hate everybody" to J.D. Hooker on 23 June 1863.
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Andrew Head @andrewhead.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
@ianarawjo.bsky.social and team, this looks amazing. What a cool idea and beautiful paper.
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 02/02/2026
another look at this generational chart crime
U.S. and global steel production over the past decade. The highlighted year-over-year increase in U.S. output is real but small, and looks very different when shown in context versus a tightly cropped comparison.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Game Maker's Toolkit • Home @gamemakerstk
Take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
6:20 AM • 2016-06-12
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
CS ArXiv recently banned “review and position” papers, but what are those? Do they include more generated content? Who is most affected by this change? @yanai.bsky.social and I dug into the data to find out! Nearly 50% of Computers & Society papers might be censored, vs 3% of Computer Vision ‼️
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/01/2026
The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses
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