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Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis

Error analysis is a compass, and we need it to be accurate.

Aug 12, 2019

Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis

Aug 12, 2019

Draco: Representing, Applying & Learning Visualization Design Guidelines

From academic courses to online articles, discussions of visualization often abound with design guidelines: Don’t use pie charts! Don’t…

Oct 22, 2018

Draco: Representing, Applying & Learning Visualization Design Guidelines

Oct 22, 2018

Hypothetical Outcome Plots (HOPs) Help Users Separate Signal from Noise

In daily life, we often find ourselves trying to separate signal from noise. For example, do the monthly job numbers to the left suggest a…

Oct 17, 2018

Hypothetical Outcome Plots (HOPs) Help Users Separate Signal from Noise

Oct 17, 2018

Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes

The real world is full of uncertainty, but it can be tough to communicate that uncertainty. This is especially true for data visualization…

Jun 19, 2018

Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes

Jun 19, 2018

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Multiple Perspectives on the Multiple Comparisons Problem in Visual Analysis

The more visual comparisons an analyst makes, the more likely they are to find spurious patterns — a version of the Multiple Comparisons…

Apr 2, 2018

Multiple Perspectives on the Multiple Comparisons Problem in Visual Analysis

Apr 2, 2018

Introducing Vega-Lite 2.0

We are excited to announce the official version 2 release of Vega-Lite, a high-level language for rapidly creating interactive…

Oct 31, 2017

Introducing Vega-Lite 2.0

Oct 31, 2017

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Explaining the Gap: Visualizing One’s Predictions Improves Recall and Comprehension of Data

What if Visualizations Asked Users to Predict the Data First?

Jul 11, 2017

Explaining the Gap: Visualizing One’s Predictions Improves Recall and Comprehension of Data

Jul 11, 2017

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GraphScape: Modeling Similarity & Sequence among Charts

A single chart is often not enough to understand data and to convey a story. So it’s not surprising that people use multiple charts in…

May 23, 2017

GraphScape: Modeling Similarity & Sequence among Charts

May 23, 2017

Regression by Eye

William Playfair was an early pioneer of information visualization. Here is one of his charts, a 1786 depiction of the national debt of…

May 2, 2017

Regression by Eye

May 2, 2017

Surprise Maps: Showing the Unexpected

In 1977, Jerry Ehman — an astronomer working with the SETI project to seek out alien life — came across an interesting radio signal, one…

Sep 27, 2016

Surprise Maps: Showing the Unexpected

Sep 27, 2016

UW Interactive Data Lab

UW Interactive Data Lab

Data visualization and interactive analysis research at the University of Washington. http://idl.cs.washington.edu/

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