VALT Research

Visual Analytics Lab at Tufts University

[Camelia D. Brumar @cameliadb_]

✨Day 2 of Boston VIS was fantastic! 🫶🏼 We hosted a watch party, had a live talk from Best Short Paper winner @shivamravalxai 🏆, enjoyed delicious pastries and coffee, and wrapped up with a fun end-of-day party. 🎉

https://t.co/XtKUuzvHDS
@ieeevis

[Camelia D. Brumar @cameliadb_]

Kicked off the BostonVis mini-conference with an inspiring keynote by @davidbau at @VISxAI! 🎉 Excited to see the community grow around cutting-edge #Visualization and #AI insights. Check us out at https://t.co/HQzNFsdA8p! @ieeevis

[VALT Research @ResearchValt]

Former VALT lab master's student Harry Li delivered a stellar presentation on our work "Characterizing Users, Challenges, and Visualization Needs of Knowledge Graphs in Practice" at IEEE VIS 2023! 👏🎆 #IEEEVIS2023 #KnowledgeGraphs

📸: @NotAshleySuh

[Camelia D. Brumar @cameliadb_]

I've recently started delving into the history, current state, and future of Visual Analytics. I've found several related resources linked in this 🧵, and I would greatly appreciate it if the community could share other papers/books/articles/videos that I might be missing!

[Camelia D. Brumar @cameliadb_]

Friends, dinner, and knowledge graphs. I think I’m not missing anything. @NotAshleySuh @AdamCoscia @EndertAlex @michaelbehrisch @ResearchValt @ieeevis

[Camelia D. Brumar @cameliadb_]

@ResearchValt reunion 🚀

[VIBE @VIBEatWashU]

@ResearchValt alumni, their students and current students reunion. Always a good time.

[Camelia D. Brumar @cameliadb_]

IEEE VIS’22 is over, but we’re taking home a great reflection on visual thinking by the keynote speaker Dr. Kerry Magruder. Is the history of science case studies applicable to our field? What are the cultural connections or meta-reflections which relate to our work? @ieeevis

[EuroVis @EuroVisConf]

🏆 Best Short Paper Award to:
📜 Inferential Tasks as an Evaluation Technique for Visualization
✍️ @NotAshleySuh A.Mosca, @srobin4922, Q.Pham, D.Cashman, @alvittao, R.Chang, @ResearchValt
👉 https://t.co/5N8tl6Es34
📽️ https://t.co/Nv6bF6ONkp

#EuroVis #EuroVis2022 #BestPaperAward

[Tamara Munzner @tamaramunzner]

Remco Chang in second @VisualDataSci keynote at #ieeevis:
Towards a Unifying Theory of Data, Task, and Visualization with a Grammar of Hypothesis

Argues we're too nice to each other and keep expanding scope of "task" in each paper until it's so broad that we can't operationalize

[Ashley Suh @NotAshleySuh]

So stinkin’ proud of Eddy and Daniel, our undergrad students who presented their summer work on “Analysis Without Data: Teaching Students to Tackle the VAST Challenge” at @VisGuides — their first #ieeevis conference! https://t.co/Dkuqd3fYyj

[Ashley Suh @NotAshleySuh]

Super pumped that people are excited about our hypothesis grammar. We’ve been thinking about this space for a while now - what questions can a visualization answer, and what questions could an analyst ask about their data? The grammar gives us a cool way to connect the dots!

[Camelia D. Brumar @cameliadb_]

Attended the Data Materialization talk by Prof. Courtney Starrett from the Texas A&M University, and Susan Reiser from the University of North Carolina at Asheville! They shared a cute example on how to map data to worry beads. So inspirational!

@art_starrett
@SusanLReiser

[Camelia D. Brumar @cameliadb_]

Had so much fun attending #GHC22! Not to mention that it was a pleasure to meet and chat with the director of Tableau Research, Dr. Vidya Setlur!

@vsetlur @tableau #GHC22 #NextIsNow

[Evan Peck @EvanMPeck]

A brief reflection:
I was lucky to intersect with *lots* of wonderful people during my PhD in the Tufts HCI + @ResearchValt labs: @oshaer @horn_michael @Audreygirouard @erinsolovey @laneharrison @jordancrouser @danafergan @BesteFYuksel @alvittao @elitb (+ others not on Twitter)

[VALT Research @ResearchValt]

Congrats!

[Çağatay Demiralp @CagatayDemiralp]

I’m excited to join @sigmacomputing as Chief Research Scientist this week. I’d like to thank @rwoollen, @jfranty, and Mike Palmer for this unique opportunity. Also many thanks to Vic Miller and @laserlikemike from @shv for their continued support and encouragement.

[VALT Research @ResearchValt]

@TheMelBanci SAME!

[IEEE VIS @ieeevis]

Learn how a memory palace in virtual reality can assist in remembering things from scholarly articles! paper, code, & data: https://t.co/HcfwsOeLsL @fumeng_yang, Jing Qian, @jono_vis, @BadreLab, @cullendjackson, and @LaidlawDavid #ieeevis

[Emily Wall @profembwall]

Loving some of the amazing keynote presentations by @ieeevis women this year. So far @jennwvaughan for #TREX, @BTversky for #VisPsych, @FinaleDoshi and @JessicaHullman for #VDS. What others am I missing? + Sheelagh Carpendale coming up on Friday for the VIS capstone.