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Jupybara: Operationalizing a Design Space for Actionable Data Analysis and Storytelling with LLMs Huichen Will Wang, Larry Birnbaum, Vidya Setlur Vidya Setlur Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025 View publication
AI-Enabled Conversational Journaling for Advancing Parkinson’s Disease Symptom Tracking Mashrur Rashik, Shilpa Sweth, Nishtha Agrawal, Saiyyam Kochar, Kara M Smith, Fateme Rajabiyazdi, Vidya Setlur, Narges Mahyar, Ali Sarvghad Vidya Setlur Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025 View publication
Plume: Scaffolding Text Composition in Dashboards Maxim Lisnic, Vidya Setlur, Nicole Sultanum Vidya Setlur, Nicole Sultanum Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025 View publication
Pluto: Authoring Semantically Aligned Text and Charts for Data-Driven Communication Arjun Srinivasan, Vidya Setlur, Arvind Satyanarayan Arjun Srinivasan, Vidya Setlur Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2025 View publication
From Dashboard Zoo to Census: A Case Study with Tableau Public Arjun Srinivasan, Joanna Purich, Michael Correll, Leilani Battle, Vidya Setlur, Anamaria Crisan Vidya Setlur, Arjun Srinivasan IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics View publication
From Instruction to Insight: Exploring the Functional and Semantic Roles of Text in Interactive Dashboards Nicole Sultanum, Vidya Setlur IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, VIS 2024 (October 13 - 28, 2024 in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.) View publication
Data Guards: Challenges and Solutions for Fostering Trust in Data Michael Correll Nicole Sultanum, Dennis Bromley IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, VIS 2024 (October 13 - 28, 2024 in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.) View publication
DASH: A Bimodal Data Exploration Tool for Interactive Text and Visualizations Dennis Bromley, Vidya Setlur IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, VIS 2024 (October 13 - 28, 2024 in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.) View publication
GROOT: A System for Editing and Configuring Automated Data Insights Sneha Gathani Vidya Setlur, Arjun Srinivasan IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, VIS 2024 (October 13 - 28, 2024 in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.) View publication
Mixing Modes: Active and Passive Integration of Speech, Text, and Visualization for Communicating Data Uncertainty Chase Stokes, Chelsea Sanker, Bridget Cogley, Vidya Setlur Vidya Setlur EuroVis 2024 (May 27 - 31), Odense, Denmark View publication
From Delays to Densities: Exploring Data Uncertainty through Speech, Text, and Visualization Chase Stokes, Chelsea Sanker, Bridget Cogley, Vidya Setlur Vidya Setlur EuroVis 2024 (May 27 - 31), Odense, Denmark View publication
Can Nuanced Language Lead to More Actionable Insights? Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Analytical Narrative Structure Vidya Setlur, Larry Birnbaum Vidya Setlur GenAICHI Workshop, CHI 2024 View publication
SlopeSeeker: A Search Tool for Exploring a Dataset of Quantifiable Trends Alexander Bendeck, Dennis Bromley, Vidya Setlur Dennis Bromley, Vidya Setlur Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), March 18–21, 2024, View publication
Olio: A Semantic Search Interface for Data Repositories Vidya Setlur, Andriy Kanyuka, Arjun Srinivasan Vidya Setlur, Arjun Srinivasan UIST 2023, October 29–November 01, 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA View publication
EmphasisChecker: A Tool for Guiding Chart and Caption Emphasis Dae Hyun Kim, Seulgi Choi, Juho Kim, Vidya Setlur, Maneesh Agrawala Vidya Setlur IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, VIS 2023 (Melbourne, Oct 22, 2023 – Fri, Oct 27, 2023) View publication
What Is the Difference Between a Mountain and a Molehill? Quantifying Semantic Labeling of Visual Features in Line Charts Dennis Bromley, Vidya Setlur Short Paper Proceedings of IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS, Melbourne, Oct 22, 2023 – Fri, Oct 27, 2023) View publication
DataTales: Investigating the use of Large Language Models for Authoring Data-Driven Articles Nicole Sultanum, Arjun Srinivasan Short Paper Proceedings of IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS, Melbourne, Oct 22, 2023 – Fri, Oct 27, 2023) View publication
Heuristics for Supporting Cooperative Dashboard Design Vidya Setlur, Michael Correll, Arvind Satyanarayan, Melanie Tory Vidya Setlur IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, VIS 2023 (Melbourne, Oct 22, 2023 – Fri, Oct 27, 2023) View publication
Azimuth: Designing Accessible Dashboards for Screen Reader Users Arjun Srinivasan, Tim Harshbarger, Darrell Hilliker, Jennifer Mankoff Arjun Srinivasan ASSETS 23 (New York, NY | Oct 23-25, 2023) View publication
TimeSplines: Sketch-based Authoring of Flexible and Idiosyncratic Timelines Anna Offenwanger, Matt Brehmer, Fanny Chevalier, Theophanis Tsandilas Matt Brehmer IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, VIS 2023 (Melbourne, Oct 22, 2023 – Fri, Oct 27, 2023) View publication
Combining Voice and Gesture for Presenting Data to Remote Audiences Arjun Srinivasan, Matt Brehmer Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Workshop on Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO) View publication
LOKI: Reusing Custom Concepts in Interactive Analytic Workflows Andrew Beers Vidya Setlur EuroVis 2023 (Leipzig, Jun 12-16, 2023) View publication
BOLT: A Natural Language Interface for Dashboard Authoring Arjun Srinivasan, Vidya Setlur EuroVis 2023 (Leipzig, Jun 12-16, 2023) View publication
Towards a Human-Centered Approach for Automating Data Science Lars Kotthof, Marc Streit, Kai Xu Anamaria Crisan NeurIPs Human-Centered AI Workshop View publication
Augmented Chironomia for Presenting Data to Remote Audiences Brian D. Hall, Lyn Bartram Matt Brehmer 2022 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST, Bend, OR, Oct 29 – Nov 2, 2022) View publication
OSCAR: A Semantic-based Data Binning Approach Vidya Setlur, Michael Correll, Sarah Battersby Short Paper Proceedings of IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS, Oklahoma City, OK, USA, October 16-21) View publication
Medley: Intent-based Recommendations to Support Dashboard Composition Aditeya Pandey Arjun Srinivasan, Vidya Setlur IEEE VIS 2022 (Oklahoma City, OK, USA, October 16-21) View publication
Are We Making Progress in Visualization Research? Michael Correll BELIV (Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches for Visualization) 2022 (to appear) View publication
Striking a Balance: Reader Takeaways and Preferences when Integrating Text and Charts Chase Stokes, Bridget Cogley, Arvind Satyanarayan, Marti A. Hearst Vidya Setlur IEEE VIS 2022 (Oklahoma City, OK, USA, October 16-21) View publication
Comparison Conundrum and the Chamber of Visualizations: An Exploration of How Language Influences Visual Design Aimen Gaba, Jane Hoffswell, Cindy Xiong, Vidya Setlur, Arjun Srinivasan Vidya Setlur, Arjun Srinivasan IEEE VIS 2022 (Oklahoma City, OK, USA, October 16-21) View publication
Blocks: Creating Rich Tables with Drag-and-Drop Interaction Allison Whilden, Rodion Degtyar, Jonathan Que, Filippos Lymperopoulos Dirk Karis, Vidya Setlur Short Paper Proceedings of EuroVIS 2022, June 13-17, 2022 (Best Short Paper Honorable Mention) View publication
Adaptive Threshold Sampling Daniel Ting SIGMOD ’22, June 12–17, 2022, Philadelphia, PA, USA View publication
Statistical Schema Learning using Occam’s Razor Justin Talbot, Daniel Ting SIGMOD ’22, June 12–17, 2022, Philadelphia, PA, USA View publication
Interactive Model Cards: A Human-Centered Approach to Model Documentation Margaret Drouhard, Jesse Vig, Nazneen Rajani Anamaria Crisan FAccT 2022 (Seoul, Korea, June 21-24) View publication
Recommendations for Visualization Recommendations: Exploring Preferences and Priorities in Public Health Calvin Bao, Siyao Li, Michael Correll, Leilani Battle Michael Correll CHI 2022, April 30–May 6, 2022, New Orleans View publication
Finding Their Data Voice: Practices and Challenges of Dashboard Users Lyn Bartram, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Melanie Tory, Anamaria Crisan Melanie Tory, Anamaria Crisan IEEE CG&A View publication
GEViTRec: Data Reconnaissance Through Recommendation Using a Domain-Specific Visualization Prevalence Design Space Anamaria Crisan, Shannah E. Fisher, Jennifer L. Gardy, Tamara Munzner Anamaria Crisan IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics View publication
Responsive Visualization Design for Mobile Devices Tom Horak, Wolfgang Aigner, Alark Joshi, Christian Tominski Matt Brehmer Mobile Data Visualization (CRC Press, 2021) View publication
Interacting with Visualization on Mobile Devices Bongshin Lee, John Stasko, Christian Tominski Matt Brehmer Mobile Data Visualization (CRC Press, 2021) View publication
GeoSneakPique: Visual Autocompletion for Geospatial Queries Vidya Setlur, Sarah Battersby, Tracy Wong IEEE Vis (Oct 23 - 28, 2021) View publication
Visual Arrangements of Bar Charts Influence Comparisons in Viewer Takeaways Cindy Xiong, Benjamin Bach, Kylie Lin, Eunyee Koh, Steven Franconeri Vidya Setlur IEEE Vis (Oct 23 - 28, 2021) View publication
Towards a Theory of Bullshit Visualization Michael Correll IEEE VIS 2021 alt.VIS workshop View publication
Untidy Data: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tables Lyn Bartram, Michael Correll, Melanie Tory Michael Correll, Melanie Tory IEEE VIS 2021 View publication
From Jam Session to Recital: Synchronous Communication and Collaboration Around Data in Organizations Matt Brehmer, Robert Kosara IEEE VIS 2021 / in IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics View publication
Illegible Semantics: Exploring the Design Space of Metal Logos Gerrit J. Rijken, Rene Cutura, Frank Heyen, Michael Sedlmair, Jason Dykes, Noeska Smit Michael Correll IEEE VIS 2021 alt.VIS workshop (to appear) View publication
Generative Design Inspiration for Glyphs with Diatoms Carmen Hull Matt Brehmer, Robert Kosara IEEE VIS 2021 / in IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics View publication
Semantic Resizing of Charts Through Generalization: A Case Study with Line Charts Haeyong Chung Vidya Setlur IEEE Vis (Oct 23 - 28, 2021) Best paper honorable mention View publication
Snowy: Recommending Utterances for Conversational Visual Analysis Arjun Srinivasan, Vidya Setlur ACM UIST 2021 (October 10-14, 2021) View publication
Natto: Rapid Visual Iteration of Analytic Data Models with Intelligent Assistance Anamaria Crisan, Vidya Setlur Vidya Setlur, Anamaria Crisan KDD 2021 Visualization in Data Science Workshop View publication
Conditional Cuckoo Filters Daniel Ting, Rick Cole ACM SIGMOD 2021, June 20-25, 2021, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China View publication
User Ex Machina: Simulation as a Design Probe in Human-in-the-Loop Text Analytics Anamaria Crisan, Michael Correll CHI 2021, May 8–13, 2020, Yokohama View publication
Vis Ex Machina: An Analysis of Trust in Human versus Algorithmically Generated Visualization Recommendations Rachael Zehrung, Astha Singhal, Leilani Battle Michael Correll CHI 2021, May 8–13, 2020, Yokohama View publication
Towards Understanding How Readers Integrate Charts and Captions: A Case Study with Line Charts Dae Hyun Kim, Vidya Setlur, Maneesh Agrawala Vidya Setlur ACM CHI Conference 2021 (Online, May 8-13, 2021) - to appear View publication
Data-Driven Mark Orientation for Trend Estimation in Scatterplots Tingting Liu, Xiaotong Li, Chen Bao, Changhe Tu, Oliver Deussen, Yunhai Wang Michael Correll CHI 2021, May 8–13, 2020, Yokohama View publication
Collecting and Characterizing Natural Language Utterances for Specifying Data Visualizations Nikhila Nyapathy, Bongshin Lee, Steven M. Drucker, John Stasko Arjun Srinivasan ACM CHI 2021 View publication
The Unicorn of Map Projections Sarah Battersby International Journal of Geography View publication
The Unmet Data Visualization Needs of Decision Makers within Organizations Evanthia Dimara, Harry Zhang, Steven Franconeri Melanie Tory IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2021 View publication
Deconstructing Categorization in Visualization Recommendation: A Taxonomy and Comparative Study Doris Jung-Lin Lee, Melanie Tory, Karrie Karahalios, Aditya Parameswaran Vidya Setlur IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2021 (presented at IEEE VIS 2021) View publication
Fits and Starts: Enterprise Use of AutoML and the Role of Humans in the Loop Brittany Fiore-Gartland Anamaria Crisan CHI 2021, May 8–13, 2020, Yokohama View publication
Understanding the Role of User Interface for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making in Supporting Exploratory Usage of Information Systems Sungsoo Ray Hong, Rafal Kocielnik, Cecilia Aragon, Juho Kim Sarah Battersby Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (January 4-8, 2021) View publication
QualDash: Adaptable Generation of Visualisation Dashboards for Healthcare Quality Improvement Mai Elshehaly, Rebecca Randell, Lynn McVey, Natasha Alvarado, Chris P. Gale, Roy A. Ruddle Matt Brehmer In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 27, Issue 2 (Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2020) View publication
Sentifiers: Interpreting Vague Intent Modifiers in Visual Analysis using Word Co-occurrence and Sentiment Analysis Arathi Kumar Vidya Setlur IEEE Vis - Oct 25-30, 2020 View publication
What Do We Actually Learn from Evaluations in the “Heroic Era” of Visualization? Michael Correll BELIV (Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches for Visualization) 2020 View publication
Why Shouldn't All Charts Be Scatter Plots? Beyond Precision-Driven Visualizations Enrico Bertini, Steven Franconeri Michael Correll IEEE Vis - Oct 25-30, 2020 View publication
VizCommender: Computing Text-Based Similarity in Visualization Repositories for Content-Based Recommendations Michael Oppermann, Tamara Munzner Robert Kincaid IEEE VIS 2020 View publication
NL4DV: A Toolkit for Generating Analytic Specifications for Data Visualization from Natural Language Queries Arpit Narechania, John Stasko Arjun Srinivasan IEEE VIS 2020 View publication
Sneak Pique: Exploring Autocompletion as a Data Discovery Scaffold for Supporting Visual Analysis Enamul Hoque, Dae Hyun Kim, Angel X. Chang Vidya Setlur Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2020, New Orleans, LA, USA, October 20-23, 2020. View publication
Global Mapping of Future Glaciovolcanism Benjamin Edwards, William Kochtitzky Sarah Battersby Global and Planetary Change View publication
Passing the Data Baton : A Retrospective Analysis on Data Science Work and Workers Brittany Fiore-Gartland Anamaria Crisan, Melanie Tory IEEE VIS 2020 Visualization in Data Science Symposium View publication
VisuaLint: Sketchy In Situ Annotations of Chart Construction Errors Aspen K Hopkins, Arvind Satyanarayan Michael Correll EuroVis 2020, May 25-29, 2020, Norrköping, Sweden View publication
Orchard: Exploring Multivariate Heterogeneous Networks on Mobile Phones Philipp Eichmann, Darren Edge, Nathan Evans, Bongshin Lee, Christopher White Matt Brehmer Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 39, Issue 3 (Proceedings of EuroVis 2020) View publication
Conditional Cuckoo Filters Daniel Ting, Rick Cole arXiv:2005.02537 [cs.DS] 5 May 2020 View publication
Data-driven Intent Models for Visual Analysis Tools and Chatbot Platforms Vidya Setlur Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for HCI: A Modern Approach at CHI (April 25, 2020) View publication
Truncating the Y-Axis: Threat or Menace? Enrico Bertini, Steven Franconeri Michael Correll CHI 2020, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI View publication
Surfacing Visualization Mirages Andrew McNutt, Gordon Kindlmann Michael Correll CHI 2020, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI View publication
Divining Insights: Visual Analytics Through Cartomancy Andrew McNutt Anamaria Crisan, Michael Correll altCHI 2020, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI View publication
Interweaving Multimodal Interaction with Flexible Unit Visualizations for Data Exploration Bongshin Lee, John Stasko Arjun Srinivasan IEEE TVCG 2020 (also presented at IEEE VIS 2020) View publication
Data Series Management (Dagstuhl Seminar 19282) Konstantinos Zoumpatianos, Themis Palpanas, Anthony Bagnall Rick Cole Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 9, Issue 7 (2019) View publication
Guess Me If You Can: A Visual Uncertainty Model for Transparent Evaluation of Disclosure Risks in Privacy-Preserving Data Visualization Aritra Dasgupta, Robert Kosara, Min Chen Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, 2019 View publication
Evidence for Area as the Primary Visual Cue in Pie Charts Robert Kosara IEEE VIS Short Paper Proceedings, 2019 View publication
Improving the Robustness of Scagnostics Yunhai Wang, Zeyu Wang, Tingting Liu, Oliver Deussen, Michael Sedlmair Michael Correll IEEE InfoVis 2019 (Vancouver, Oct 20-25, 2019) View publication
Do What I Mean, Not What I Say! Design Considerations for Supporting Intent and Context in Analytical Conversation Melanie Tory, Vidya Setlur IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), October 20-25, 2019 View publication
Toward Interface Defaults for Vague Modifiers in Natural Language Interfaces for Visual Analysis Marti Hearst Melanie Tory, Vidya Setlur IEEE Vis - Oct 20-25, 2019 View publication
ShoCons: Effective Display of Shortcuts in Icon Toolbars Benjamin Watson Vidya Setlur International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA) View publication
Would You Like A Chart With That? Incorporating Visualizations into Conversational Interfaces Marti Hearst Melanie Tory IEEE VIS - Oct 20-25, 2019 (to appear) View publication
Learning to Optimize Federated Queries Liqi Xu Rick Cole, Daniel Ting aiDM at SIGMOD 2019 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 30 - July 5, 2019) View publication
Approximate Distinct Counts for Billions of Datasets Daniel Ting SIGMOD 2019 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 30 - July 5, 2019) View publication
Designing Animated Transitions to Convey Aggregate Operations Younghoon Kim, Jeffrey Heer Michael Correll EuroVis 2019, June 3–7, 2019, Porto, Portugal View publication
The Impact of Distribution and Chart Type on Part-to-Whole Comparisons Robert Kosara View publication
Circular Part-to-Whole Charts Using the Area Visual Cue Robert Kosara EuroVis Short Paper Proceedings View publication
Working with Map Projections: A Guide to Their Selection Fritz Kessler Sarah Battersby CRC Press View publication
Ethical Dimensions of Visualization Research Michael Correll CHI 2019, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, UK View publication
Discovering Natural Language Commands in Multimodal Interfaces Arjun Srinivasan, Mira Dontcheva, Eytan Adar, Seth Walker Arjun Srinivasan ACM IUI 2019 View publication
Inferencing Underspecified Natural Language Utterances in Visual Analysis Alex Djalali Vidya Setlur, Melanie Tory Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2019 View publication
Broadening Intellectual Diversity in Visualization Research Papers Bongshin Lee, Kate Isaacs, Danielle Szafir, Elizabeth Marai, Catagay Turkay, Sheelagh Carpendale, Alex Endert Melanie Tory IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Vis Viewpoints) View publication
Evaluating Young People’s Area Estimation of Countries and Continents Lieselot Lapon, Philippe De Maeyer, Nina Vanhaeren, Kristien Ooms Sarah Battersby View publication
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Automating the Extraction of Date Scalars Dan Cory Richard Wesley, Vidya Setlur Tableau Research White Paper (TR #2018-01) View publication
Optimal Sub-sampling with Influence Functions Eric Brochu Daniel Ting NeurIPS 2018 View publication
Augmenting Visualizations with Interactive Data Facts to Facilitate Interpretation and Communication Steven M. Drucker, Alex Endert, John Stasko Arjun Srinivasan IEEE VIS 2018 View publication
Looks Good To Me: Visualizations As Sanity Checks Mingwei Li, Gordon Kindlmann, Carlos Scheidegger Michael Correll IEEE InfoVis 2018 (Berlin, Oct 21-26, 2018) View publication
Skipping the Replication Crisis in Visualization: Threats to Study Validity and How to Address Them Steve Haroz Robert Kosara BELIV (Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches for Visualization) 2018 View publication
In Pursuit of Error: A Survey of Uncertainty Visualization Evaluation Jessica Hullman, Xiaoli Qiao, Alex Kale, Matthew Kay Michael Correll IEEE InfoVis 2018 (Berlin, Oct 21-26, 2018) View publication
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards? Alper Sarikaya, Lyn Bartram, Melanie Tory, Danyel Fisher Michael Correll, Melanie Tory IEEE InfoVis 2018 (Berlin, Oct 21-26, 2018) View publication
Count-Min: Optimal Estimation and Tight Error Bounds Daniel Ting KDD 2018 View publication
Data Sketches for Disaggregated Subset Sum and Frequent Item Estimation Daniel Ting SIGMOD 2018 View publication
ChangeCatcher: Increasing Inter-author Awareness for Visualization Development Mona Loorak, Sheelagh Carpendale Melanie Tory Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis 2018) View publication
Ross-Chernoff Glyphs Or: How Do We Kill Bad Ideas in Visualization? Michael Correll altCHI 2018, April 21–26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada View publication
Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer Michael Correll CHI 2018, April 21–26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada View publication
To Distort or Not to Distort: Distance Cartograms in the Wild Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Min-Joon Yoo, Bonnie Chinh, Amy Han, Juho Kim Sarah Battersby CHI 2018, April 21–26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada View publication
A Bevy of Area-preserving Transforms for Map Projection Designers Daniel “daan” Strebe Cartography and Geographic Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2018.1452632 View publication
Connecting Visualization and Data Management Research Remco Chang, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Juliana Freire, Carlos E. Scheidegger Richard Wesley Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 7, Issue 11 View publication
An Efficient Technique for Creating a Continuum of Equal-area Map Projections Daniel “daan” Strebe Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol 45:6, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2017.1405285 View publication
Spreadsheet Property Detection With Rule-assisted Active Learning Zhe Chen, Sasha Dadiomov, Daniel Cory, Michael Cafarella Richard Wesley, Jock Mackinlay CIKM’17 , November 6–10, 2017, Singapore, Singapore View publication
Orko: Facilitating Multimodal Interaction for Visual Exploration and Analysis of Networks Arjun Srinivasan, John Stasko Arjun Srinivasan IEEE VIS 2017 View publication
Bridging From Goals to Tasks with Design Study Analysis Reports Tamara Munzner Heidi Lam, Melanie Tory IEEE InfoVis 2017 (Phoenix, Oct. 1-6, 2017) View publication
Applying Pragmatics Principles for Interaction with Visual Analytics Enamul Hoque, Isaac Dykeman Vidya Setlur, Melanie Tory IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 1-6, 2017 View publication
An Argument Structure for Data Stories Robert Kosara EuroVis Short Paper Proceedings, 2017 View publication
Readability and Precision in Pictorial Bar Charts Drew Skau Robert Kosara EuroVis Short Paper Proceedings, 2017 View publication
Finding a Clear Path: Structuring Strategies for Visualization Sequences Jessica Hullman Robert Kosara, Heidi Lam Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings EuroVis), vol. 36, no. 3, 2017 View publication
Natural Language Interfaces for Data Analysis with Visualization: Considering What Has and Could Be Asked John Stasko, Arjun Srinivasan Arjun Srinivasan EuroVis 2017 (Short Paper) View publication
Affective Color in Visualization Lyn Bartram, SFU-SIAT, Abhisekh Patra, SFU-SIAT Maureen Stone Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, May 6-11 2017. View publication
Designing Interactive Distance Cartograms to Support Urban Travelers Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Rafal Kocielnik, Min-Joon Yoo, Juho Kim, Cecilia Aragon Sarah Battersby The 10th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2017). View publication
Map Projections and the Internet Fritz C. Kessler, Michael P. Finn, Keith C. Clarke Sarah Battersby Kessler F.C., Battersby S.E., Finn M.P., Clarke K.C. (2017) Map Projections and the Internet. In: Lapaine M., Usery E. (eds) Choosing a Map Projection. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer View publication
Exploring Synergies between Visual Analytical Flow and Language Pragmatics Vidya Setlur, Melanie Tory AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing the User Experience of Machine Learning Systems View publication
Nicky: Toward a Virtual Assistant for Test and Measurement Instrument Recommendations Graham Pollock Robert Kincaid 11th International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 196-203, 2017 View publication
Redefining a Contribution for Immersive Visualization Research Ramik Sadana, John Stasko Vidya Setlur Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Companion on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces View publication
Affective Colour Palettes in Visualization (poster) Abhisekh Patra (SFU-SIAT), Lyn Bartram (SFU-SIAT) Maureen Stone IEEE Visualization Conference (Baltimore, October 23-28, 2016) View publication
An Empire Built On Sand: Reexamining What We Think We Know About Visualization Robert Kosara Beyond Time And Errors: Novel Evaluation Methods For Visualization (BELIV), 2016 View publication
Visualizing Dimension Coverage to Support Exploratory Analysis Ali Savghad, Narges Mahyar Melanie Tory IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VAST 2016) View publication
Reflecting on the Design Criteria for Explanatory Visualizations Aritra Dasgupta, Enrico Bertini Robert Kosara Workshop on Creation, Curation, Critique and Conditioning of Principles and Guidelines in Visualization (C4PGV) at IEEE VIS 2016 View publication
Eviza: A Natural Language Interface for Visual Analysis Angel X. Chang Vidya Setlur, Sarah Battersby, Melanie Tory, Rich Gossweiler ACM User Interfaces and Software Technology (UIST) 2016 View publication
Incremental Computation of Common Holistic Windowed Aggregates Fei Xu, Richard Wesley Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 9, No. 12 View publication
The Connected Scatterplot for Presenting Paired Time Series Steve Haroz, Steven L. Franconeri Robert Kosara Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 2174–2186, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2502587 View publication
Towards Optimal Cardinality Estimation of Unions and Intersections with Sketches. Daniel Ting ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (KDD), 2016. View publication
Towards A General-Purpose Query Language for Visualization Recommendation Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer Jock Mackinlay, Anushka Anand Proceedings of the Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA '16) View publication
Judgment Error in Pie Chart Variations Drew Skau Robert Kosara Short Paper Proceedings of the Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis), pp. 91–95, 2016. DOI: 10.2312/eurovisshort.20161167 View publication
Arcs, Angles, or Areas: Individual Data Encodings in Pie and Donut Charts Drew Skau Robert Kosara Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings EuroVis), vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 121–130, 2016. DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12888 View publication
Shapes on a Plane: Evaluating the Impact of Projection Distortion on Spatial Binning Daniel Strebe, Michael P. Finn Sarah Battersby Cartography and Geographic Information Science, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2016.1180263 View publication
A computational method for the Hufnagel pseudocylindric map projection family Bernhard Jenny, Bojan Šavrič, Daniel R. Strebe Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol 44:1, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2015.1128853 View publication
Presentation-Oriented Visualization Techniques Robert Kosara Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 80–85, 2016. View publication
Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer Jock Mackinlay, Anushka Anand The IEEE Information Visualization Conference (Chicago, October 25-30, 2015) View publication
A Linguistic Approach to Categorical Color Assignment for Data Visualization Vidya Setlur, Maureen Stone The IEEE Information Visualization Conference (Chicago, October 25-30, 2015) View publication
Automatic Selection of Partitioning Variables for Small Multiple Displays Anushka Anand, Justin Talbot The IEEE Information Visualization Conference (Chicago, October 25-30, 2015) View publication
GraphTiles: A Visual Interface Supporting Browsing and Imprecise Mobile Search Juhee Bae, Benjamin Watson Vidya Setlur MobileHCI 2015 Conference (Copenhagen, August 25 - 28, 2015) View publication
Exploiting Analysis History to Support Collaborative Data Analysis Ali Sarvghad Melanie Tory Graphics Interface 2015, June 3-5, 2015 View publication
On Improving User Response Times in Tableau Valeri Kim Pawel Terlecki, Marianne Shaw, Fei Xu, Richard Wesley 2015 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia May 31 - June 4, 2015 View publication
An Evaluation of The Impact of Visual Embellishments In Bar Charts Drew Skau Robert Kosara Proceedings EuroVis, 2015 (forthcoming) View publication
ISOTYPE Visualization – Working Memory, Performance, and Engagement with Pictographs Steve Haroz, Steven L. Franconeri Robert Kosara CHI 2015 (in press) View publication
Personal Visualization and Personal Visual Analytics Dandan Huang, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Lyn Bartram, Scott Bateman, Sheelagh Carpendale, Anthony Tang, Robert Woodbury Melanie Tory IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 420 - 433, Mar. 2015 View publication
Tapestry: A Different Kind of Conference on Storytelling with Data Robert Kosara Computer Graphics & Applications (Graphically Speaking), vol. 35, no. 2, pp.12–14, 2015. View publication
User Preferences for World Map Projections Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, Denis White, Daniel Strebe Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol 42:5, DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2015.1014425 View publication
A Research Agenda for Geospatial Technologies and Learning Tom R. Baker, Sarah W. Bednarz, Alec M. Bodzin, Bob Kolvoord, Steven Moore, Diana Sinton, David Uttal Sarah Battersby Journal of Geography 114: 117-130 View publication
Four Experiments on the Perception of Bar Charts Vidya Setlur, Justin Talbot, Anushka Anand Infovis 2014, Paris, France View publication
Adapting Color Difference for Design Danielle Albers Szafir, Michael Gleicher Maureen Stone 22nd IS&T Color and Imaging Conference (Boston, November 3-7, 2014) View publication
An Engineering Model for Color Difference as a Function of Size Danielle Szafir Vidya Setlur, Maureen Stone 22nd IS&T Color and Imaging Conference (Boston, November 3-7, 2014) View publication
Supporting Communication and Coordination in Collaborative Sensemaking Narges Mahyar Melanie Tory IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VAST 2014), vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 1633 - 1642, 2014 View publication
Support the Data Enthusiast: Challenges for Next-Generation Data-Analysis Systems Kristi Morton, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Grossman Jock Mackinlay Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 7, pp. 453–456, 2014 View publication
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