Assistant Professor in CS at Mount Holyoke College; PhD from UMass Amherst
I study and teach how to make data visualizations & computers work for real people.
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📣 alt.VIS is back for 2025!
Bring your weird, wacky, creative, outsidery dreams of what visualization is and could be!
Running alongside #ieeevis, we've got 2 tracks this time:
* trad.alt -- the full "papers" track
* alt.alt -- an abstract-only track for your ideas that you want to discuss more or build community around!
Deadline is August 1st
Call for presentations is live! Got thoughts on how we represent information in a world that just won’t sit still? Information+ 2025 is looking for bold, thoughtful, and interdisciplinary proposals that push the conversation forward in information design and data visualization.
Important dates:
May 23, 2025: Deadline to submit abstract (90-150 words)
May 31 - June 6, 2025: Submission period for full presentation proposals (400-800 words)
Details and submission info: https://informationplusconference.com/2025/submissions.html
Hi folks! If you'll be at #chi2025 this year, come check out my new paper "Intra, Extra, Read all about it: How Readers Interpret Visualizations with Intra- and Extratextual Information"!
It's an exploratory interview study examining how students combined information in the visualization (intratextual) with information they already knew (extratextual) to make meaning.
Pre-print available here: https://www.alyxburns.com/files/Intra_Extra_PREPRINT.pdf
Save the date for the Info+ conference this year at Northeastern & MIT November 14–16! For those who haven't attended, the conference explores and celebrates information design and data visualization across a range of disciplines, practices, applications, and provocations. Submissions for presentations, workshops, and exhibition pieces open in April. Check out the site and stay tuned! https://informationplusconference.com/2025/
Hey #visualization #datavis folks - the DVS Outlier Conference call for speakers is now up, deadline is Mar 15!
This year's theme: reimagining. This year's place: Miami + virtual.
https://www.datavisualizationsociety.org/news/2025/2/21/outlier-2025-speaker-application-now-open
ReVISit 2.0 (revisit.dev) has reached several exciting milestones recently:
📁 Define an **entire** experiment in a single file-- (visualizations, data, study sequence, questionnaires, etc.)
🛫 Pilot and iterate on the experiment within a notebook environment.
📈 Test data collection and prototype your analyses in the same notebook!
See it in action in this clip, where we replicate a correlation perception experiment in ~160 lines of Python.
💻 Code available here ➡️ https://github.com/revisit-studies/revisitpy-examples/blob/main/example_jnd_study/example_jnd_study.ipynb
Reposting this from bsky: My new lab is running its first study! Its a little (paid) interview study about data serialization formats (like yaml, json, and friends). Do you have opinions? We'd love to hear them
https://bsky.app/profile/havoc-lab.bsky.social/post/3lfxxocz52225
We’ve released reVISit 2.0 (http://revisit.dev), the latest version of our open user study platform! There are a LOT of awesome new things in this release that will not only make it easier to run your user study for #ieeevis, but give you new analysis capabilities. #datavis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjP35gra9J4
A young researcher at Northeastern University is doing a survey of crafters and makers.
Have you used data, or represented data, in your work?
Here is the link to the details and survey. I think it's cool that someone finds data + craft a worthy topic of research. And I like to help students.
#BobbinLace #tatting #crochet #knitting #embroidery #sewing #weaving
Do you want to help shape the future of patient-clinician interactions?
We’re looking for participants to share their experiences in a study led by Thrive Health and UBC researchers. This 60-minute interview will provide valuable insights into patient priorities, enabling better technology to support care experiences.
- Conducted at UBC’s Vancouver campus
- $30 honorarium
- Support meaningful healthcare change
If you’re interested, sign up
👉 https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3EPA677nwbgLruu
@Birdbassador There's a paper called "Fourteen Steps to Writing an Effective Discussion Section" from SF Edit which I found really helpful in grad school for better understanding what a discussion section should actually *do*! It's not vis/HCI specific, but I think most of the advice there does align with what I would expect to see in a good discussion for that community.
Our DUB REU summer internship program for undergraduates is open again for applications! It's ~9 week paid, paired with a DUB faculty member and hosted at UW to work on HCI research, broadly construed.
Deadline 1/31.
Please share with your students! https://dub.uw.edu/reu.html
Are you a U.S.-based #college #instructor who teaches introductory #English or #ComputerScience courses? Do you have a policy on #generativeAI use in your classes? We want to hear from you!
Please consider participating in a brief survey and 1-hour interview about the hopes and fears behind AI (non-)use policies in U.S. higher ed: https://lehigh.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dbya12AjaGicGGy. Questions about the study? Want to chat about this topic? Feel free to reach out (DM, email, etc.).
@Birdbassador @cfiesler Seconded! It has some good documentation for passing info to Qualtrics too which helped me get started.
📢 We’re hiring!! If you’re interested in teaching data science in an IS environment, my department is looking for a full-time teaching faculty to join our team. https://careers.drexel.edu/en-us/job/504031/assistant-or-associate-teaching-faculty-data-science
PLAYING GAMES: In the great tradition of strike publications, we offer our tech-worker version. https://nytimesguild.org/tech/guild-builds/
Now you can play and not be a scab. We also want to thank the multitude of #NYTimes subscribers who have stopped playing and honored our digital picket line.
#GuildBuilds #SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike #Union #Unions #Tech #Election #Election2024 #Labor #CollectiveBargaining #Contract #NewsGuild #CWA #Solidarity
CHI 2026 takes place in Barcelona at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona. CHI 2026’s General Chairs are Nuria Oliver and David A. Shamma and the CHI 2026 Technical Program Chairs are Heloisa Candello, Pablo Cesar, and Pedro Lopes. The entire committee is excited to bring the conference to the Iberian peninsula for the first time and we look forward to engagements with the broader Mediterranean region.
We have a website up:
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@Birdbassador The Background in @evanmpeck 's Data Is Personal is a good example of a Background I genuinely like. For me, I find Backgrounds enjoyable to read when it feels like the authors already did the digesting of the sources and figured out what info I *really* need to understand and find their results and methods interesting.
