VIS 2024 X TUG Watch Parties

In October 2000, at the INFOVIS Conference in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Stanford University's Chris Stolte and Pat Hanrahan presented on a little research project called Polaris.

Fast forward a few years and INFOVIS became part of VIS, and Polaris, well, it became Tableau.

Researchers across academia, government, and yes, even companies like Tableau, have continued to dig into how to visualize data better. That research is presented at conferences like IEEE VIS every year. This year, we’re hosting virtual VIS X TUG Watch Parties to watch VIS 2024 presentations live and discuss how the research findings can help us data viz better.

We’ll see presentations on how humans group and compare bars in bar charts, the impact of text in interactive dashboards, an update on rainbow colormaps, a little on data visualization literacy, and all sorts of content on Generative AI, Natural Language, and data visualization.

What we learn from these presentations will help us, as data viz practitioners, make better dashboard design decisions, assist the users of our vizzes in their decision making, and better understand what’s on the horizon with AI and data viz.

Human and Machine Visualization Literacy

• Enhancing Data Literacy On-demand: LLMs as Guides for Novices in Chart Interpretation
  Authors: Kiroong Choe, Chaerin Lee, Soohyun Lee, Jiwon Song, Aeri Cho, Nam Wook Kim, Jinwook Seo
• What University Students Learn In Visualization Classes
  Authors: Maryam Hedayati, Matthew Kay
• PREVis: Perceived Readability Evaluation for Visualizations
  Authors: Anne-Flore Cabouat, Tingying He, Petra Isenberg, Tobias Isenberg
• Promises and Pitfalls: Using Large Language Models to Generate Visualization Items
  Authors: Yuan Cui, Lily Ge, Yiren Ding, Lane Harrison, Fumeng Yang, Matthew Kay
• An Empirical Evaluation of the GPT-4 Multimodal Language Model on Visualization Literacy Tasks
  Authors: Alexander Bendeck, John Stasko
• How Good (Or Bad) Are LLMs in Detecting Misleading Visualizations
  Authors: Leo Yu-Ho Lo, Huamin Qu

Want more VIS 2024?

Check out the VIS 2024 Website to see the full program, including workshops, tutorials, panels, and so much more that we won't be viewing at the VIS 2024 X TUG Watch Parties.

To stay in the loop about VIS 2024 and future VIS events, sign up for the VIS mailing list.

Do I need to register for VIS 2024 to attend these TUG watch parties?

You do not need to register for VIS 2024 to participate in the VIS 2024 X TUG watch parties. HETUG has gotten permission from VIS 2024 organizers to stream VIS sessions during the watch parties.

However, if you'd like to rewatch any sessions, see talks that we're not covering during the watch parties, or participate in any of the workshops, tutorials, panels, or other content, you should register.

Virtual registration for VIS 2024 includes access to:

• all conference sessions, including workshops, tutorials panels, and other associated events
• online content including downloadable proceedings
• conference Discord to meet other VIS attendees and continue discussions after the sessions

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