Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations
This paper presents discursive patinas, a technique to visualize discussions onto data visualizations, inspired by how people leave traces in the physical world. While data visualizations are...
Thinking Inside the Box: Considerations for Putting Data Physicalization Workshops in a Box
Visualization researchers utilize workshops both for applied research and to engage different populations with visualization-based activities. While there are many benefits to running...
Designing Vibes in a Science Museum: from @Science to @hugging_face
While feminist and critical data theories have long critiqued the use of data to uphold a positivist-informed view about science, few examples offer alternative methods to display scientific...
Reflections on Traceability for Visualization Research
Decades of advocacy for reproducibility and replication have advanced open, transparent practices in the sciences. However, traditional notions of reproducibility fit poorly with design-oriented...
Manifesto for Putting 'Chartjunk' in the Trash 2021!
In this provocation we ask the visualization research community to join us in removing chartjunk from our research lexicon. We present an etymology of chartjunk, framing its provocative origins as...
Data Hunches: Incorporating Personal Knowledge into Visualizations
The trouble with data is that it frequently provides only an imperfect representation of a phenomenon of interest. Experts who are familiar with their datasets will often make implicit, mental...