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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 03/07/2025

These are the design guidelines I teach. From halfway through this deck: www.mjskay.com/presentation... These days (for academic vis) I'd add "ensure natural visual operations correspond to meaningful operations in data space". Need to make slides for that.

Some rough design guidelines*

1. Match effectiveness with importance
2. Avoid ambiguity
3. Locality is king / eyes beat memory
4. Establish viewing order
5. Layer, layer, layer
6. When in doubt, grid
7. Treat visual attributes like adjectives

* These guidelines are drawn largely from my experience + personal preferences + the literature.
Design is messy, these are not perfect, others will disagree with me, etc. Caveat emptor.

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It's happening again!! alt.VIS is returning to #IEEEVIS for another year of creativity, criticality, and alterity! Bring us your hot takes, bring us your work that falls outside of mainstream academic vis, bring us your weird stuff!! Deadline is August 1st altvis.github.io

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A half-day workshop at IEEE VIS 2023

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Sonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

1/2 Graag jullie meedenken en netwerkbereik om mij aan een nieuwe opdracht te helpen: Ik werk als data illustrator en zet cijfers en andere gegevens in mooie beelden om, van staafdiagram tot datakunst. email info@studioterp.nl Repost is fijn :-)

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 05/05/2025

Really enjoyed the course Modern-Day oracles or Bullshit Machines - How to thrive in a ChatGPT world developed by @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social. I am considering using it in my Visual Data Science course next time I teach it :) 10/10, do recommend! thebullshitmachines.com

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction

A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.

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Samuel Huron @cybunk.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🎈 🎓 We are hiring a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Télécom Paris ! 🧪 Come and work with us ! 🎈 The deadline is really soon ... 🚀 More infos here : diva.telecom-paristech.fr/jobs/prof-20... #chi2025 #HCI #visualisation #hiring #CHI #fabrication #Design #wearable #mobile #Programming

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DIVA: Professor of Human-Computer Interaction

DIVA Group: Design, Interaction, Visualization at LTCI Telecom ParisTech

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 30/04/2025

Is it even legal to rebrand #stroopwafels as maple waffles and sell them as a Canadian souvenir without credit? Awesome to have thoughtful colleagues bring back delicious treats from work trips though! Thanks @leif-oltedal.bsky.social !

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EG Symposium on Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine @vcbm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We are thrilled to announce that VCBM 2025 will come back to TUDelft in the Netherlands. We are particularly happy to share that all accepted full papers will be published in Computers and Graphics this year. For full details on submission types and scope, please check our website at www.vcbm.org.

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VCBM 2025 – 15th EG Symposium on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/03/2025

The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.

NY Times graphic.

Conventional computer: One task starts after another completes

AI computing: tasks are divided into small parts and happen at the same time.

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Jan Willem Tulp @tulpinteractive.com · 07/03/2025

Fantastic must read article by @moritzstefaner.bsky.social on the crisis (or not) in #dataviz Very well articulated and resonates deeply with me: truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis...

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Truth & Beauty - Crisis? What crisis?

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 24/02/2025

Looking for a change of scenery? We welcome applications to our Associate Professor or full Professor (depending on qualifications) position in Visualization/Visual Data Science at the University of Bergen, Norway, until February 28th! Come work with us :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Professor / Associate Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization (271566) | University of Bergen

Job title: Professor / Associate Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization (271566), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

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Enrico Bertini (FILWD) @ebertini.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Are you a "data fiber artist" (representing data through knitting, crocheting, embroidery, sewing, weaving, etc.)? Please help my PhD student Sydney collect information about this fascinating practice for her thesis with this survey: skpurdue.github.io/DataFiberArts/. Please repost! Thx!

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 14/01/2025

Knitting my kid a pair of felted mittens in leftover yarn only to run out of leftover yarn midway 😅 The solution is of course to shop for more yarn which will turn into leftover yarn. A vicious cycle I can't get mad about! ☺️ 🧶 #knitting #raumavams

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Laura Garrison @lauragarrison.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Come work with us!

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 29/11/2024

Speaking of Bergen, ever considered moving to Norway? We have a job opening for a Tenured Associate or full Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization 📊! I can add that as a tenured associate professor there is a clear path towards promotion to full professor. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

jobbnorge.no

Professor / Associate Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization (271566) | University of Bergen

Job title: Professor / Associate Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization (271566), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 28/11/2024

When it is not raining, Bergen is really something special ☺️ This was just on my way to and from work.

Sunrise sky gradient with black tree silhouettes

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 27/11/2024

So I had a side project idea a while ago, but great news everyone! Other people have done it and they have done a better job than I ever could! Over on the Pudding, they have a beautiful interactive data story on the use of Lena over time. 📊

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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 25/11/2024

📊 vs. 🥧 I made a tiny teaching tool to help me interactively demo + share differences between 📊 and 🥧 Play: I find that tinkering with data + visuals in class reinforces understanding far more than slides or readings Save + share: Copy the url to link the current data 👉 barvpie.netlify.app

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 25/11/2024

Random side project idea, I would love to visualize the frequency of Lena image use in scientific publications over time, but no idea how to get the data... Does Google Scholar support image search?🤔📊

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 20/11/2024

Wanted to share this amazing video if you are teaching or want to learn about splines by @freya.bsky.social ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPP...

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The Continuity of Splines

YouTube video by Freya Holmér

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Charl P. Botha @charlbotha.com · 20/11/2024

Several years ago I collaborated with Prof Huib Simonsz (then at Erasmus MC Rotterdam), Ben Willekens, Gijsbert Hötte et al. to scan, register and publish many hundreds of #microscopy sections of the human #eye. View the registered slices: visible-orbit.org/the-collecti... (much more info at site)

a stained microscopy section through the human eye

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 20/11/2024

Discovering feeds! Just found this great data visualization one! bsky.app/profile/did:... Any other recommendations?

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 18/11/2024

Going to deactivate my Twitter account later today and going all in on here and maybe a bit of Mastodon (though that somehow didn't really stick so far!) Bluesky really seems to have a great community! <3

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 18/11/2024

On Friday, Kari Wagner-Larsen, one of the PhDs I had the pleasure to co-advise, defended her thesis on advanced MRI for developing more personalized treatment in cervical cancer. I am so proud of her and her achievements! Probably the best part of my job, getting to work with awesome people!

Kari at her trial lecture on the topic of cancer screening

Kari in discussion with her opponent from France via Zoom

Kari in discussion with the second opponent

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Jan Willem Tulp @tulpinteractive.com · 18/11/2024

An interactive #dataviz of 13 million @bsky.app users in the browser! By Joel Gustafson aurora.ndimensional.xyz That's pretty amazing

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Charl P. Botha @charlbotha.com · 18/11/2024

My super personal Weekly Head Voices #blog rides again! This one has a bit about why I am really liking #bluesky (hint: it's the people!) and more bits about growing older. cpbotha.net/2024/11/17/w...

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Weekly Head Voices #255: You lift me up

Figure 1: Het Stadhuis, Delft, taken in August from a quick bicycle trip with my good friend the TPN. Mood: Enchanted. Part of me still lives there. There is a nerd joke I could make about ...

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 13/11/2024

This is probably not news to anyone, but balancing being a parent, partner, and a good citizen in academia is so hard! I feel like I am behind on everything all at once. Hard not to lose myself in the process. Tips welcome ☺️

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Alexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I made a data visualization academics starter pack! go.bsky.app/wzjzNi Let me know who I should add. #datavis

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 21/10/2024

Getting some help at home to prepare a Computer Graphics lecture on splines! Husband started out doing metal band logos on paper, found the pen tool and then used just splines for a while! Curious about his more recent work? He is also new to Bluesky: @tundratoucan.bsky.social <3 #graphics

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Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com · 20/10/2024

I don't know how to do a good first post, so I will just share something random. I recently finished knitting a cardigan for my toddler. It took me as long as it took to grow him, but he is not having it. He shouts 'Off!' as soon as I try to get him to wear it. #knit www.ravelry.com/projects/Noe...

A home-made cardigan for my kid that he hates and does not want to wear. It's a green and off-white stranded knitting piece with traditional Norwegian pewter buttons.

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 01/09/2024

Here you go. 🫡 Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊 go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy

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