Investigating Links Between Spatial Ability, Data Visualization Task Performance, and Area of Discipline. Empowering people across all disciplines and professions to understand their data is the enduring promise of visualization. When designing a visualization for a specific industry or discipline, visualization designers will consider the nature of the data and how it is used by that specific discipline. What is seldom (if ever)…

In this blog post, we take a look back at an older paper of ours titled Parallel Tag Clouds to Explore and Analyze Faceted Text Corpora, and explore how it has influenced data visualization research since it was published. Parallel Tag Clouds was presented at the IEEE Conference on Visual…

Why animated scatterplots are not well suited for data discovery Data visualization is the practice of mapping data variables to visual variables, or visual dimensions. Despite only having two spatial dimensions to work with on a normal screen, data scientists often seek to cram as many data variables as possible into a single visualization using other visual dimensions such as…

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is a research field that studies the process of learning another language. Language transfer effects occur when the learner applies structural, grammatical, or semantic rules from their native language to the language they are trying to learn. For example, a native Portuguese speaker might misuse the…

Enabling anonymous peer-based mental health support with artificial intelligence and visualization Visit the app and share your stories at http://covidconnect.me. It’s been well over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, prompting various measures from governments and private-sector entities alike. One of the first responses to the pandemic came in the form of widespread implementation of work-from-home and…

How researchers conveyed the bigger picture behind the data without compromising the individual significance of the stories. — Sexual harassment in academia is an unusually overlooked component of the greater societal conversation around sexual assault and harassment. …