Update: We've got multiple people working on #SafeguardingResearch ✊

We set up a forum to coordinate everything, please consider joining:
https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/

If you know of any publicly available resources in need of preservation, please let us know. Easy way to propose URLs to archive: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/wL4NNzKWUfZ+GrPV4deTxNgr0MoAvLgOA33eLC2ATUU/
(no account/login needed, hosted by CryptPad in France)

Boost and share with colleagues 🚀

#DigitalPreservation #antifascistDH #antifascistArchives #ArchivelPractice

a couple of colleagues who are in DC for NSF panels got an email this morning that it has been canceled

Python 1.0.0, released 31 years ago today:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.misc/c/_QUzdEGFwCo/m/KIFdu0-Dv7sJ

--> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week?

--> Frustrated with Bourne shell syntax?

--> Spent too much time staring at core dumps lately?

Maybe you should try Python, the next generation object-oriented
scripting and prototyping language, with a *readable* syntax. Python
has been used by hundreds of happy users all over the world during the
past three years, and is now ready for prime time.

People have strong opinions about pie charts — but are they based on rigorous research, or just personal preference? Learn what studies tell us about the chart type that everyone loves to hate in our new blog post: https://observablehq.com/blog/truth-about-pie-charts

New dithering method dropped

I call it Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and I've released it as open source along with this explainer video of how it works.

Explainer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGaIMVuLs

Source repository:
https://github.com/runevision/Dither3D

#gamedev #vfx

Phong, Blinn, and Whitted are pretty easy to follow!

For #raytracing lighting notes for class, I've read more seminal papers than I ever did while taking the subject. #gfx #gotothesource

Don’t know where you are? I can help. #gfx

Video now posted for Cynthia Huang's talk, Visualising Category Recoding Graphs in Data Harmonisation

https://youtu.be/Ro6gUVAM-Gk

Excited to introduce D-Tour: A game-inspired approach to understanding data dashboards! 📊

Our research team has developed an interactive method for dashboard onboarding that adapts to user expertise and is inspired by open-world video games.

- Flexible learning paths for users of all levels
- Efficient authoring for dashboard creators
- Improved engagement with data visualizations

Learn more at the ongoing #ieeevis 2024 conference!

Post: https://niklaselmqvist.medium.com/taking-a-d-tour-7a847dceb2be
PDF: https://data.jku-vds-lab.at/papers/2024_d_tour.pdf

If it isn't a bunny, its a Cornell Box (unlit, simplified version). #gfx #computergraphics

#ieeevis is just starting and already seeing papers to add to my ever increasing pile. First is the latest work out of Dr. @miriah_meyer's lab on Entanglements (Feminist theory, not Quantum Theory) in Vis.
https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/program/paper_v-full-1077.html

I'm excited to announce the release of our tool Color Buddy! It’s a vis color palette designer built on good color science (incl. spaces like LAB/OKLCH) AND it has modern favs like direct manip & AI fiddles. Spicier: it checks your palette (for a11y/design/etc issues) as you go! (#ieeevis)

Given how much of my work involves numbers, this is a fun trip down our current understanding about how we understand numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRqCs2SUdxY

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS is the new captcha.

📮 New Blog Post! VIS organizers recently ran a survey to ask whether the community thinks that the conference should assume a hybrid format to broaden participation. Read about the results of the survey here. https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/blog/vis-2024-VEC-survey-results

The ninety-ninety rule:

“The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.”

→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule

I collected all my writing on PCA into a free long-form math book.

https://peterbloem.nl/publications/unraveling-pca

It's called "Unraveling principal component analysis" and it contains a narrative explanation of PCA all the way down to the foundations.

That means it discusses eigenvectors, singular value decompositions, the spectral theorem, low-rank decompositions and much more.

What’s the moral of this story?

(1) The hiring process is mostly not about you. That sounds weird, but it’s true.

(2) As an applicant, your job is to jump through nonsensical hoops — or walk around them, if you can — until you can reach the point where you’re having a real conversation with somebody who’s actually involved with the position in question.

(2a) That often means straight-up ignoring clearly stated job requirements.

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