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Nezar Abdennur @nvictus.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I'm proud to announce the latest release of 🧬 #Oxbow 🏹, with new features to make NGS data analysis more powerful, efficient, and "composable". Learn more at: oxbow.readthedocs.io

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Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We all love upset plots (the best way to represent set data), but how do we make them accessible to everyone? To answer this we { @maggiemccracken.bsky.social, @alex-lex.bsky.social, and others } developed a system (and ran a bunch of studies) to figure it out! vdl.sci.utah.edu/blog/2025/06...

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Making Data Visualizations Talk: Accessible Text Descriptions for UpSet Plots

Data visualizations in scientific journals are essential for understanding the content of an article. However, visualizations typically are inaccessible for blind or low-vision users. A common remedy ...

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Devin Lange @devlange.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Do you use data visualizations 📊 or add annotations to them? My collaborators and I are doing a study on how people use visualizations in their work — we'd love to interview you! Survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Book a time: calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...

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Annotation Interview Study

We are researchers at University of Utah, Harvard Medical School, and University of Oklahoma, seeking visualization professionals/practitioners to share insights on their annotation practices. The goa...

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Mark @mkeller7.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We systematically analyzed the visualizations used in 1,846 subfigures from 45 human single-cell atlas publications in a survey on The State of Single-Cell Atlas Data Visualization in the Biological Literature. 📝: osf.io/preprints/os... 🔍: keller-mark.github.io/sc-star-site/

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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Love the influx of academics to Bluesky. Will this be our new 🏠? To help grow the community, I just created an HCI+Accessibility "starter pack". Help me grow the list! Many are missing! go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP

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Sehi L'Yi, PhD @sehilyi.com · 18/11/2024

Adding accessibility tags using Adobe every time I export PDFs from Google Docs is laborious, but it's a good practice for testing and improving PDF accessibility. I'm getting more familiar with VoiceOver shortcuts!

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Sehi L'Yi, PhD @sehilyi.com · 12/11/2024

I switched from Outlook to Apple Mail simply because using Alt+Arrow to navigate between words conflicted with the menu focus in Outlook. One feature I miss a lot is Outlook's smart filtering—It looks like I have to manually set up every filter rule in Apple Mail.

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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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Sehi L'Yi, PhD @sehilyi.com · 29/10/2024

Important lesson learned today: when writing important academic documents, use Overleaf instead of Google Docs. Arranging figures in Google Docs is such a painful experience 😵‍💫

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Niklas Elmqvist @nelmqvist.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Over my 15-year career as a faculty member, I have come up with two surefire ways to Get Sh*t Done: (1) adding something to my calendar ensures that I will attend to it, and (2) adding something to my TODO ensures that I complete it. Pro tip: condition yourself to obeying these two important tools!

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Sehi L'Yi, PhD @sehilyi.com · 27/10/2024

Ooh, nice. I can use my personal website domain as the account name in Bluesky

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Alexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

UpSet 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...

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Reflections on UpSet

This 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.

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Sehi L'Yi, PhD @sehilyi.com · 17/10/2024

How can we combine multiple visualization interfaces to make a system learnable and expressive? Our 🏆 Honorable Mention paper at #ieeevis introduced a conceptual framework, Blended Interface, and its implementation for genomics data visualization. Read our paper at t.co/prQlzG8W6B

Trade-offs of four authoring interfaces, including template-based, shelf configuration, natural language interface, and code editor, in terms of their learnability, expressivity, efficiency, and accuracy, are illustrated with parallel coordinates.

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