Current meeting czar: Zipeng

• direct questions and updates about meetings to me via email (zipeng [at] cs.ubc.ca)

Winter 2020 3-4:30pm Wednesdays / Location 202

• Apr 29 - TBD
• Apr 22 - Zipeng CHI practice talk for LogSeg paper
• Apr 15 - Michi V2V paper draft reading.
• Apr 8 - Steve wrangle paper draft reading
• Apr 1 - Social meeting for fun
• Mar 25 - NO MEETING
• Mar 18 - Madison vision method paper draft reading
• Mar 11 - Madison multi-class scatterplot project discussion
• Mar 4 - Steve wrangle pre-paper talk
• Feb 26 - NO MEETING.
• Feb 25 - Juergen EuroVA paper draft.
• Feb 19 - NO MEETING. Reading week.
• Feb 12 - NO MEETING. Tamara away.
• Feb 6 - additional meeting
• Feb 5 - Michi V2V pre-paper talk
• Jan 29 - scatterplot project pitch by Madison / Michi / Francis
• Jan 22 - Francis picks paper: Wu et al. Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis. ACL 2019.
• Jan 15 - NO MEETING. Snow day.
• Jan 8 - schedule and logistics

Fall 2019 10:30am-noon Wednesdays / Location X530

• 12/25 - NO MEETING, HOLIDAYS
• 12/18 - NO MEETING, HOLIDAYS
• 12/11 - NO MEETING, visitor on Friday
• 12/3 Tue 12-1:30 - Michi paper draft reading: Ocupado, EuroVis
• 11/27 - NO MEETING, bus strike
• 11/21 - Juergen paper draft reading
• 11/13 - NO MEETING
• 11/6 - Juergen pre-paper talk VIAL++
• 10/30 - Vis Recap
• 10/23 - NO MEETING, VIS WEEK
• 10/16 - Zipeng's VIS full paper presentation, Ana's short paper practice talk on DataRecomm
• 10/9 - Steve journalism project, Tamara tot award talk
• 10/2 - Zipeng paper draft reading: respin of sprawlter metrics, PacificVis
• 9/25 - paper pick Tamara Looks Good To Me: Visualizations As Sanity Checks
• 9/18 - Zipeng paper draft reading: LogSeg, CHI
• 9/11 - logistics discussion
• 9/4 - Zipeng pre-paper talk

Summer 2019 2:00-3:30pm Tuesdays / Location X530

• 8/27 - Tamara picks paper: Same Stats, Different Graphs (Graph Statistics and Why We Need Graph Drawings)
• 8/20 - Zipeng picks paper: Latent Space Cartography: Visual Analysis of Vector Space Embeddings
• 8/13 - NO MEETING
• 8/6 (10am Wed) - Ana PhD defence practice talk
• 7/30 - Tamara picks paper: What is Interaction for Data Visualization?
• 7/23 (4:30pm) - Steve picks paper: Netflower: Dynamic Network Visualization for Data Journalists
• 7/16- NO MEETING
• 7/9 - Jürgen picks paper: The Exploratory Labeling Assistant: Mixed-Initiative Label Curation with Large Document Collections
• 7/2 - NO MEETING (Tamara away)
• 6/25 - Ana picks paper: Characterizing Exploratory Visual Analysis: A Literature Review and Evaluation of Analytic Provenance in Tableau
• 6/18 - Zipeng picks paper: A User-based Visual Analytics Workflow for Exploratory Model Analysis
• 6/11- NO MEETING (Tamara away)
• 6/4 - Tamara picks paper: Assessing Effects of Task and Data Distribution on the Effectiveness of Visual Encodings
• 5/28 - Michael draft reading - Time Slices
• 5/21 - NO MEETING (#people in town is tiny in May)
• 5/14 - NO MEETING
• 5/7 - NO MEETING

Winter 2019 2:00-3:30pm Tuesdays / Location 202

• 4/30 - Michael pre-short-paper talk - Time Slices
• 4/23 - Michael picks paper: VizML: A Machine Learning Approach to Visualization Recommendation (4pm, X530)
• 4/16 - Tamara picks paper: Falcon: Balancing Interactive Latency and Resolution Sensitivity for Scalable Linked Visualizations
• 4/9 - OpenVisConf Video "Disagreements" (NYT)
• 4/2 - NO MEETING
• 3/28 - multilevel paper draft
• 3/26 - mincombinR paper draft
• 3/21 - ocupado paper draft
• 3/19 - gevitRec paper draft
• 3/14 - Madison paper draft
• 3/12 - NO MEETING
• 3/5 - Zipeng pre-paper
• 2/26 - NO MEETING
• 2/19 - NO MEETING - Tamara away
• 2/14 - Ana & Shannah pre-paper (minCombinR)
• 2/7 - Ana pre-paper - GEVitRec
• 1/31 - Michael pre-paper (ocupado)
• 1/21 - Matt Brehmer Job Talk (11:30am - 1pm)
• 1/15 - Stephen picks paper: Leveraging Biological Inspiration in an Information Visualization Class

Summer/Fall 2018 2:00-3:30pm Thursdays / Location X530

• 11/22 - Zipeng picks paper: DQNViz: A Visual Analytics Approach to Understand Deep Q-Networks
• 11/15 - Tamara picks paper: Graph Thumbnails: Identifying and Comparing Multiple Graphs at a Glance
• 11/8 - Ana picks paper: Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs and Juniper: A Tree+Table Approach to Multivariate Graph Visualization
• 11/1 - Vis Recap
• 10/18 - NO MEETING - Everyone on the way to VIS
• 10/11 - NO MEETING - Tamara away
• 10/4 - Tamara keynote practice talk
• 10/3 - Michael CityVis practice talk [Wed, 2:00-3:00pm]
• 9/27 - NO MEETING - Tamara away
• 9/20 - NO MEETING - Tamara away
• 9/13 - Ana practice talk
• 9/6 - Shannah co-op talk
• 8/9 - Tamara picks paper: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Dashboards?
• 7/31 - Guest: Soren Knudsen
• 7/19 - Shannah picks paper: Considerations for Visualizing Comparison
• 7/12 - NO MEETING - Tamara away
• 7/5 - NO MEETING - Tamara away
• 6/29 - Emily's paper draft (FRIDAY 1:30-3pm, X530)
• 6/21 - NO MEETING
• 6/14 - Jan practice talk (GaRSIVis project)
• 6/8 - Madison picks paper: Feature of Interest‐Based Direct Volume Rendering Using Contextual Saliency‐Driven Ray Profile Analysis (FRIDAY 2:30-4pm, X530)
• 5/31 - Zipeng's paper draft (ROOM 304)
• 5/24 - Ana picks paper: Uncertainty Displays Using Quantile Dotplots or CDFs Improve Transit Decision-Making
• 5/16 - Michael picks paper: Urban Pulse: Capturing the Rhythm of Cities
• 5/9 - Tamara picks paper: Simple is Good: Observations of Visualization Use Amongst the Big Data Digerati
• 5/2 - NO MEETING - Tamara away

Winter 2018 10:30-11:45am Wednesdays / Location X530

• 4/25 - NO MEETING - Tamara away
• 4/18 - Madison pre-pitch Viz tutorial? Zipeng paper draft reading?
• 4/11 - MUX CHI Presentations
• 4/4 - Madison pre-paper talk
• 3/28 - NO MEETING - Faculty Recruiting
• 3/21 - Tamara picks paper: Batch et al, The Interactive Visualization Gap in Initial Exploratory Data Analysis
• 3/14 - Ana picks paper: Wongsuphasawat et al, Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in TensorFlow
• 3/7 - Kim paper draft
• 2/28 - Ana pre-paper talk
• 2/21 - NO MEETING - Tamara away
• 2/14 - NO MEETING - Tamara away
• 2/7 - Madison picks paper: Zgraggen et al, Investigating the Effect of the Multiple Comparisons Problem in Visual Analysis
• 1/31 - Zipeng picks paper: Strobelt et al., LSTMVis: A Tool for Visual Analysis of Hidden State Dynamics in Recurrent Neural Networks
• 1/24 - NO MEETING - Tamara appt
• 1/17 - Kim pre-paper talk
• 1/10 - Enamul practice talk (3-5 pm)
• 1/3 - NO MEETING

Fall 2017 10:30-12pm Wednesdays / Location 202

• 12/27 - NO MEETING
• 12/20 - NO MEETING
• 12/17 - Lab Christmas Party
• 12/13 - Emily practice talk
• 12/4 (Monday) - Zipeng paper draft
• 11/29 - NO MEETING (Zipeng's pre-paper draft moved to Monday)
• 11/22 - Ana picks paper: Myers et al, Exploring the dimensions of organizational assimilation: Creating and validating a measure
• 11/15 - Michael picks paper: Qu et al, Keeping Mulitple Views Consistent: Constraints, Validations, and Exceptions in Visualization Authoring
• 11/9 (Thursday) - OPAM Panel
• 11/8 - TBD: Tamara Practice Talk or OpenVis Video Discussion or CANCELLED
• 11/7 (Tuesday) - Talk
• 11/1 - Zipeng pre-paper talk
• 10/25 - Video Talk Session and Discussion: Veltman, Pulling a polygon out of a hat from OpenVis Conference
• 10/18 - Kim picks paper: Rodrigues et al, Nonlinear Dot Plots; MUX VIS Recap at 2pm
• 10/11 - NO MEETING
• 10/4 - NO MEETING (VIS 2017)
• 9/27 - Tamara + Madison VIS practice talk
• 9/20 - (Room X530) Ana practice talk
• 9/13 - Tamara picks paper: Gramazio et al, Colorgorical: Creating discriminable and preferable color palettes for information visualization
• 9/6 - (Room X530) Madison picks paper: Szafir et al, Modeling Color Difference for Visualization Design

Summer 2017 3:30pm - 5pm Wednesdays / Location 204

• 8/30 - Michael picks paper: Kim et al, Visualizing Nonlinear Narratives with Story Curves
• 8/23 - Kim picks paper: Wang et al, Linear Discriminative Star Coordinates for Exploring Class and Cluster Separation of High Dimensional Data
• 8/16 - External Talk Zoya Bylinskii
• 8/9 - Emily picks paper: Ceneda et al, Characterizing guidance in visual analytics
• 8/2 - Yann picks paper: van den Elzen et al, Reducing snapshots to points: A visual analytics approach to dynamic network exploration
• 7/26 - NO MEETING
• 7/19 - NO MEETING
• 7/12 - Tamara picks paper: Lukasczyk et al, Nested Tracking Graphs
• 7/5 - Ana picks paper: Wickham et al, Visualizing statistical models: Removing the blindfold
• 6/28 - Microsoft Data Insights: PowerBI Recap by Ana & Kim
• 6/21 - NO MEETING (Tamara in Australia)
• 6/14 - NO MEETING (Tamara in Australia)
• 6/7 - Zipeng picks paper: Liu et al, Patterns and Sequences: Interactive Exploration of Clickstreams to Understand Common Visitor Paths
• 5/31 - Enamul picks paper: Wongsuphasawat et al, Voyager 2: Augmenting Visual Analysis with Partial View Specifications.
• 5/24 - Tamara picks paper: Kim et al, GraphScape: A Model for Automated Reasoning about Visualization Similarity and Sequencing
• 5/17 - NO MEETING
• 5/10 - Ana Practice Talk
• 5/4 (Thurs) - Lyn Bartram practice talk

Winter 2017 3:30pm - 5pm Wednesdays / Location 202

• 4/26 - (Tues) InfoVis Final Presentations [Forestry 2300 A 1-5 pm]
• 4/19 - Matt practice talk
• 4/12 - Zipeng picks paper: Correll et al, Surprise! Bayesian Weighting for De-Biasing Thematic Maps
• 4/5 - Madison picks paper: Michal et al, Visual routines are associated with specific graph interpretations
• 3/29 - NO MEETING
• 3/22 - (Note: in Room 304) Enamul paper draft
• 3/15 - Discuss Tamara and Heidi Lam's paper
• 3/8 - Emily picks paper: Miettinen et al. Survey of methods to visualize alternatives in multiple criteria decision making problems
• 3/1 - Kim picks paper: Dimara et al, The Attraction Effect in Information Visualization
• 2/22 - NO MEETING (Reading Week)
• 2/15 - Zipeng picks paper: Veras et al, Optimizing Hierarchical Visualizations with the Minimum Description Length Principle
• 2/8 - TensorFlow talk 3:30-5
• 2/1 - Ana Pre-paper talk
• 1/25 - NO MEETING (Tamara talk in San Diego)
• 1/18 - Zipeng picks paper: Dabek et al, A Grammar-based Approach for Modeling User Interactions and Generating Suggestions During the Data Exploration Process
• 1/11 - (Note: in Room X718) Tamara picks paper: Tam et al, An Analysis of Machine- and Human-Analytics in Classification

Fall 2016 3:30pm - 5pm Wednesdays / Location X530

• 12/7 - Georges Workflow pre-paper talk
• 11/30 - Madison picks paper: Skau et al, Arcs, Angles, or Areas: Individual Data Encodings in Pie and Donut Charts
• 11/23 - Emily picks paper: Pajer et al. WeightLifter: Visual Weight Space Exploration for Multi-Criteria Decision Making
• 11/16 - Ana: Design Sprint Results
• 11/9 - VIS 2016 Recap
• 11/2 - Kim picks paper: Du et al. Coping with Volume and Variety in Temporal Event Sequences: Strategies for Sharpening Analytic Focus
• 10/26 - NO MEETING - VIS Conference
• 10/19 - Georges picks paper: Bach et al. Time Curves: Folding Time to Visualize Patterns of Temporal Evolution in Data
• 10/12 - Ana DC practice talk
• 10/5 - Zipeng picks paper: Behrisch et al, Magnostics: Image-based Search of Interesting Matrix Views for Guided Network Exploration
• 9/28 - Tamara practice talk
• 9/21 - Clarification Paper: Wickham et al, Graphical Inference for Infovis
• 9/14 - Tamara picks paper: Beecham et al, Map LineUps: effects of spatial structure on graphical inference
• 9/7 - NO MEETING

Summer 2016 10:30am - 12pm Thursdays / Location TBD

• 9/1 - NO MEETING (Tamara vacation) (BELIV camera ready deadline 8/31)
• 8/25 - NO MEETING
• 8/18 - George picks paper: Alvarez et al, How many objects can you track?: Evidence for a resource-limited attentive tracking mechanism
• 8/11 - NO MEETING
• 8/4 - Tamara picks paper: Vikram Pandey et al, Towards Understanding Human Similarity Perception in the Analysis of Large Sets of Scatter Plots (VIS camera ready deadline 8/1, BELIV final notifications 8/5)
• 7/28 - Dylan picks paper: van den Elzen et al, Multivariate Network Exploration and Presentation paper discussion
• 7/21 - Special Infovis Group meeting: Prototype Design Mockups for Genome Sequencing Report (BELIV revisions due 7/20)
• 7/14 - NO MEETING (Tamara vacation) (VIS final notificatoins 7/11, BELIV notifications 7/10)
• 7/7 - NO MEETING (Tamara vacation)
• 6/30 - Zipeng picks paper: Szafir et al paper, Four Types of Ensemble Encoding in Data Visualizations, discussion (VIS revision deadline 6/27)
• 6/23 - Ana starts discussion: Kay et al, When (ish) is My Bus? User-centered Visualizations of Uncertainty in Everyday, Mobile Predictive Systems, 2016 paper discussion
• 6/16 - NO MEETING : (Information+ conference, Andy Kirk visit / meetup) (BELIV deadline 6/15)
• 6/9 - Matt + Ana CHI recap (VIS notifications 6/6)
• 5/30 (Mon 11am, lcoation TBD) : Ana practice talk (Tamara away 5/31 - 6/3 at GI in Victoria)
• 5/26 - NO MEETING (Tamara vacation)
• 5/19 - Kim : Dang et al 2013, TimeSeer: Scagnostics for High-Dimensional Time Series, paper discussion, BioVis design context meeting (Matt, Ana vacation)
• 5/11 (Wed 1:30pm, location TBD) : Georges recent work (department retreat 5/12-13) (Matt, Ana away at CHI'16)
• 5/5 - Jason Dykes visit / DLS 3:30pm, group lunch 12:30pm (Matt, Ana away at CHI'16)

Winter 2016 12:00–1:30pm Fridays - ICCS x530

• 4/29 - Tamara PVIS roundup

• 4/22 - NO MEETING (Tamara at PVIS)
• 4/15 - TBD
• 4/8 - TBD
• 4/1 - NO MEETING (VIS deadline recovery)
• 3/31 (Thu) - IEEE VIS deadline
• 3/25 - NO MEETING (Good Friday holiday)
• 3/23 - 9AM Matt defence: Room 203, Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road)
• 3/18 - Matt practice defence talk
• 3/11 - Ana paper draft read TBCOGS
• 3/4 - TBD
• 3/2 - Heidi/Melanie prepaper talk DST Wed 10:30am-12pm
• 2/26 - NO MEETING
• 2/19 - NO MEETING (Reading Week)
• 2/12 - TBD (Matt away at Dagstuhl seminar)
• 2/10 (Wed) - Miriah Meyer visit / HCI@UBC talk 12pm EDC 102
• 2/5 - Ana prepaper talk TBCOGS
• 1/29 - Zipeng read Weaver paper
• 1/22 - Matt practice job talk
• 1/18 (Mon 3pm location TBA) - Narges practice job talk
• 1/15 - Stephen Few "ethics of vis design" seminar: 5:30pm Open Studios
• 1/15 - NO MEETING
• 1/14 (Thu) - Stephen Few "big data, little understanding" seminar: 6pm SFU Harbour Centre
• 1/8 - Tamara: UW IDL medium post: Next steps for vis research

Fall 2015 1pm Fridays - ICCS x530

• 12/18 NO MEETING
• 12/14 (Mon) CHI'16 notifications
• 12/11 Tamara paper: InfoVis 2015 memorability paper from Michelle and others, Few's article + discussion thread, 2013 article + discussion, Ben Jones's article
• 12/04 Matt paper: The Connected Scatterplot for Presenting Paired Time Series by Haroz et al.
• 12/01 (Tue) CHI'16 rebuttal deadline
• 11/27 Ben Shneiderman visit: lunch w/ Ana, Madison, Narges; demos w/ Johanna, Matt, Enamul
• 11/20 NO MEETING: Tamara in SF
• 11/18 (Wed) CHI reviews
• 11/13 Heidi and Melanie Q&A
• 11/6 NO MEETING: Tamara in SF
• 10/25-30 NO MEETING: IEEE VIS in Chicago
• 10/23 NO MEETING (everyone en route to Chicago)
• 10/16 Johanna VAST 15 practice talk (Johanna, Matt via Skype)
• 10/7 (Wed 2pm) Matt InfoVis 15 practice talk (x836)
• 9/25 (Fri) 12pm CHI'16 deadline
• 9/23 (Wed 1pm) Matt draft reading for Timelines Revisited paper (draft to be sent out 24 hours before)
• 9/11 Matt prepaper talk for Timelines Revisited paper

Summer 2015 11am Thursdays - ICCS 304

• 9/3 NO MEETING
• 8/27 Tamara pick discussion, Vials, (Matt, Enamul away), 1:30pm
• 8/20 Michelle paper discussion, Reactive Vega, 1:30pm
• 8/13 NO MEETING
• 8/6 NO MEETING
• 8/1 VIS camera-ready revisions due
• 7/30 NO MEETING
• 7/23 NO MEETING
• 7/16 NO MEETING
• 7/9 Jessica paper reading How Deceptive are Deceptive Visualizations?: An Empirical Analysis of Common Distortion Techniques. http://faculty.poly.edu/~onov/Pandey_et_al_CHI_2015.pdf
• 7/2 NO MEETING (Canada Day / Independence Day long holiday weekend)
• 6/27 VIS 1st round revisions due
• 6/26 VIS poster submissions due
• 6/25 NO MEETING (Johanna away)
• 6/18 NO MEETING (Tamara vacation)
• 6/12 Graph Drawing deadline
• 6/11 Ana / Paper discussion ModelTracker: Redesigning Performance Analysis Tools for Machine Learning http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=241307
• 6/6 VIS 1st round notifications, Matt to MSR (joining remotely until Sept)
• 6/4 NO MEETING (Tamara in Australia)
• 6/1 Rebecca / Graph Drawing paper draft (note special day/time: Monday 11am) (Ana away, Matt remote)
• 5/28 NO MEETING (CS Department Retreat)
• 5/21 Narges / Paper discussion. Storytelling in Information Visualizations:Does it Engage Users to Explore Data? (Ana away)
• 5/14 NO MEETING (Tamara in California)
• 5/11 Rebecca / Graph Drawing Pre-Paper Talk ICCS 146 (note special day/time: Monday 11am) (Ana, Enamul away)
• 5/7 NO MEETING
• 5/1 Summer meeting planning / Matt CHI 2015 highlights (note special day/time: Friday 12:30pm) (Michelle, Sung-Hee away)

Winter 2015 12:30am-2pm Fridays

• 4/24 NO MEETING
• 4/17 NO MEETING
• 4/10 NO MEETING (Tamara away)
• 4/3 NO MEETING (Good Friday)
• 3/31 5pm VIS deadline
• 3/27 Michelle glue paper draft
• 3/20 Johanna / timelines paper draft
• 3/19 Ana practice talk
• 3/18 Wed 10am-12pm Enamul MultiConVis paper draft (note special day/time)
• 3/13 Matt / Pulse paper draft
• 3/6 NO MEETING (Tamara away)
• 2/27 NO MEETING (open slot cancelled)
• 2/24 12:00-1:30pm Enamul pre-paper (note special day/time)
• 2/20 NO MEETING (Tamara away)
• 2/18 10-11:30 Narges pre-paper (note special day/time)
• 2/16 12:30-2pm Tamara + Auber / pre-paper (note special day/time)
• 2/13 Johanna / timelines pre-paper
• 2/6 NO MEETING
• 1/30 NO MEETING (Tamara away)
• 1/23 Matt / Pulse pre-paper talk
• 1/16 NO MEETING (Tamara away)
• 1/9 Michelle / Glue pre-paper talk

Fall 2014 10:30am-12pm Fridays

• 12/12 TBD (CPSC 547 project presentations 12 - 3:30)
• 12/5 NO MEEETING (EuroVis deadline)
• 12/1 9am EuroVis paper draft
• 11/28 VIS debrief
• 11/21 NO MEETING (Matt away)
• 11/14 NO MEETING (VIS)
• 11/07 NO MEETING (VIS)
• 11/04 2-3:30 Narges VAST practice talk (room TBD)
• 10/31 Johanna project update / Sung-Hee BELIV practice talk
• 10/24 NO MEETING
• 10/22 (MUX Wed 2-2:30pm) Matt / BELIV practice talk: DR Vis tasks
• 10/17 Benjamin / pre-paper talk: Visual Analytics of Entanglement in Multiplex Networks (Matt away)
• 10/10 Sung-Hee / paper discussion: A Principled Way of Assessing Visualization Literacy. Boy, Rensink, Bertini & Fekete. InfoVis 2014. (Matt via Skype)
• 10/3 Matt / InfoVis practice talk: Overview
• 9/26 Tamara / paper discussion: Design Activity Framework by McKenna et al
• 9/18-19 group retreat (Heidi and Michelle visit UBC) + Matt / practice talk: VIS DC
• 9/12 Matt / paper discussion: Lyra by Satyanarayan and Heer

Fall 2013-Summer 2014 Tamara on sabbatical, no meetings

Fall 2013 11:00am-12pm Wednesdays

• 10/13 - 10/18 VISWEEK NO MTG
• 10/10 Jessica MSc Defense 3pm - ICICS 146
• 10/9 Matt Typology VISWEEK Practice talk 2pm
• 10/7 Jessica MSc Practice talk 2:30
• 10/2 Tamara VISWEEK Panel Talk
• 9/25 NO MTG: Matt, Tamara Away
• 9/18 Paper Draft - Matt (Overview) + Drinking @ Portland Craft, 7:30pm?
• 9/11 Paper Draft - Jesisca
• 9/6 Stephen Practice Oral Defense (Fri 1:30pm)
• 9/4 NO MEETING

Summer 2013 11:00am-12:30pm Wednesdays in X530

• 8/28 (in iccs-104) Tamara Keynote Practice Talk
• 8/21 (in iccs-104) NO MTG Joel Away Hereafter
• 8/14 Prepaper - Matt Brehmer Overview
• 8/7 Stephen presents Nanocubes & imMens with bonus bigvis Joel Away
• 7/31 What the heck are we doing? (Planning)
• 7/24 Jessica Prepaper talk
• 7/18 Joel MSc Practice Talk (Thursday 3PM - 5PM)

Spring 2013 10:30am-12pm Mondays

• 4/1 no meeting, infovis deadline recovery
• 3/24 Joel Draft
• 3/18 Stephen Paper Draft
• 3/11 Colin informal discussion
• 3/8 Joel pre-paper talk (10 Fri)
• 3/4 Matt Draft
• 2/25 Jessica project update
• 2/18 no meeting, spring break
• 2/11 no meeting, "Family Day" stat holiday!
• 2/8 Stephen - Prepaper talk (10:30-12 Fri)
• 2/4 NO MEETING
• 1/31 Tamara - Blocks journal paper reading (10-11:30 Thu)
• 1/28 NO MEETING
• 1/21 Matt - Prepaper talk
• 1/14 NO MEETING
• 1/7 Jessica paper Assessing the Effect of Visualizations on Bayesian Reasoning through Crowdsourcing by Luana Micallef, Pierre Dragicevic and Jean-Daniel Fekete (2012)

Fall 2012 2-3pm Mondays room iccs-104

• 12/19 Michael/Matt/Stephen DRITW draft (Wed 10am)
• 12/3 Tamara FODAVA practice talk (Mon 10am)
• 11/26 Joel paper: Living Liquid: Design and Evaluation of an Exploratory Visualization Tool for Museum Visitors by Joyce Ma, Isaac Liao, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jennifer Frazier, Proc. InfoVis 12'
• 11/19 Stephen Glint practice talk
• 11/15 infovis group party (Michael going away) Thu 6-9pm
• 11/5 Matt paper: Visual pattern discovery using random projections, by A. Anand, L. Wilkinson, and T. N. Dang, Proc. IEEE VAST '12, 43–52.
• 10/29 Visweek debrief, Website, Planning meeting
• 10/22 cancelled
• 10/11 2PM Tamara visweek panel practice talk in iccs-x530
• 10/1 Michael Relex Talk
• 9/24 Michael DSM Talk
• 9/17 Joel Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study by Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer
• 9/10 Group website discussion
• 9/5 Stephen (10 am) Glint draft discussion

Summer 2012 3-4pm Wednesdays

• 8/29 Matt Strategies for crowdsourcing social data analysis by Willett et al (Proc. CHI '12)
• 8/22 NO MEETING
• 8/15 Jessica BallotMaps: Detecting Name Bias in Alphabetically Ordered Ballot Papers by Jo Wood, Donia Badawood, Jason Dykes, Aidan Slingsby. Proc. InfoVis 2011.
• 8/8 NO MEETING
• 8/1 NO MEETING
• 7/25 Tamara - pre-chapter talk
• 7/18 Tamara - book chapter 13
• 7/11 Michael Conceptualizing Visual Uncertainty in Parallel Coordinates by Dasgupta et al. (Proc. EuroVis 12) + EuroVis recap
• 7/4 NO MEETING
• 6/27 Joel Profiler: Integrated Statistical Analysis and Visualization for Data Quality Assessment by Kandel et al. (Advanced Visual Interfaces, 2012)
• 6/21 Infovis Party at Alibi Room at 7:30pm
• 6/20 Stephen, Exploitationware and Gamification is Bullshit by Bogost. Optional: The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit in Wired.
• 6/13 Jessica
• 6/6 Matt, M- Color naming models for color selection, image editing and palette design by Heer and Stone (Proc. CHI 2012)
• 5/30 Tamara, Gestaltlines by Brandes et al (2012)
• 5/23 Michael, SPLOM/Eurovis practice talk
• 5/16 Joel Hive plots-rational approach to visualizing networks by Martin Krzywinski, Inanc Birol, Steven JM Jones and Marco A Marra (2011)
• 5/9 No Meeting
• 5/2 Stephen: Visualizing non-metric similarities in multiple maps by Laurens van der Maaten and Geoffrey Hinton (2012)
• 4/25 Matt: Semantic Interaction for Visual Text Analytics by Endert, Fiaux, and North (2012)

Spring 2012 11:00 - 12:30 Fridays

• 1/6 Group Discussion & Matt: Exploring Ambient and Artistic Visualization for Residential Energy Use Feedback by Rodgers & Bartram
• 1/13 Jessica: Product Plots by Wickham and Hofmann
• 1/20 no meeting
• TBD Miriah/Michael Design Study prepaper talk
• 1/27 Didn't happen
• 1/27 Party (All of Imager; potluck)
• 2/3 Relex paper draft reading (ALSO: discuss open house)
• 2/10 Jessica Evaluation of Artery Visualizations for Heart Disease Diagnosis by Borkin et al
• 2/17 Miriah insite prepaper talk
• 2/24 Michael DRinthewild prepaper talk
• 3/2 Stephen distmatrix preparer talk slides
• 3/9 No meeting
• 3/16 Michael/Miriah Design Study paper draft
• 3/23 Michael/Matt DRinthewild paper draft
• 3/27 Stephen distmatrix paper draft (Tue 11am)
• 3/30 No meeting, deadline impending
• 4/6 No meeting, Easter Friday holiday
• 4/13 Jessica, Exploring How and Why People Use Visualizations in Casual Contexts: Modeling User Goals and Regulated Motivations by Sprague and Tory
• 4/20 No meeting, party instead
• 4/21 Party (infovis group plus Family and SOs) Sat 3pm

Fall 2011 3 - 4:30 Thursdays

• 9/8 Michael The Decline Effect by Jonah Lehrer
• 9/15 Stephen Arc Length-based Aspect Ratio Selection by Talbot et al
• 9/22 Miriah Prepaper talk for Cell submission
• 9/29 Jessica Benefitting InfoVis with Visual Difficulties by Hullman et al
• 9/23 6PM Party at Tamara's
• 10/6 Tamara (Book chapter on Attribute Reduction)
• 10/13 Matt 2 - 3:30 Seven Guiding Scenarios for Information Visualization Evaluation. by Heidi Lam et al
• 10/20 Michael (pre-paper talk SPLOM) 2 - 3:30
• 10/27 NO MEETING (visweek)
• 11/3 VisWeek Debrief
• 11/10 Jessica Lloyd/Dykes paper
• 11/17-18 [Maneesh Agrawala visit hosted by Tamara]
• 11/18 Stephen (prepaper talk Snappy) (10:30 - 12:15) Talk Slides
• 11/24 Michael (paper draft SPLOM)
• 11/27 Tamara/Maryam (paper draft Vismon) (Mon 11-12:30pm)
• 12/6 Stephen (paper draft MoDisco) (Tue 11-12:30)
• 12/2 [EuroVis abstracts due]
• 12/8 NO MEETING
• 12/9 [EuroVis papers due]
• 12/15 NO MEETING
• 12/22 HOLIDAY
• 12/22 HOLIDAY

Summer 2011 Wednesdays 10:30-12 (except 2nd Wed)

• 4/27 Michael (+M)
• 5/4 Jessica (+M) project overview
• 5/11 no meeting CHI
• 5/18 Andrada (-M)
• 5/25 Stephen (Graphical Inference for Infovis by Wickam et al)
• 6/1 Miriah job market debrief
• 6/8 Tamara (-M, -J) (talked about the difference between Europe and NA grad systems)
• 6/15 Miriah Negotiation Discussion
• 6/22 Michael
• 6/29 Andrada (-S)
• 7/06 Jessica (Stephen by Skype) (Views on Visualization by Van Wijk)
• 7/13 Tamara (Stephen maybe by Skype) ( Borgatti, Centrality and network flow)
• 7/20 no meeting Tamara vacation
• 7/27 Design Boot Camp Discussion (Stephen by Skype) (-Michael)
• 8/3 Stephen (deadline to book a room again for the next term) (Jessica by Skype, -Michael)
• 8/10 no meeting SIGGRAPH (-Michael)
• 8/17 Tamara book chap data principles (-Jessica)
• 8/24 Jessica design exercises
• 8/31 Tamara

Spring 2011 Wednesdays 11-12:30 (except 2nd Wed of month)

• 1/5 no mtg
• 1/12 no mtg conflict
• 1/19 Tamara practice talk for HVEI
• 1/26 Scheduling
• 2/2 Stephen
• 2/9 no mtg conflict
• 2/16 Michael
• 2/23 Stephen
• 2/28 at 12 Tamara practice talk for VizBi (+M)
• 3/9 no meeting conflict
• 3/16 no meeting Tamara gone
• 3/23 Michael (+M)
• 3/30 Stephen
• 4/6 Tamara
• 4/13 no meeting conflict
• 4/20 Miriah (+M)

Fall 2010 Mondays 1:30-3

• Tue 9/14 Miriah - paper discussion on Michael's BELIV 10 paper
• 9/20 Tamara paper draft for CHI with Jessica
• 9/27 Miriah practice talk for InfoVis
• 10/4 Stephen practice talk for InfoVis
• 10/11 no mtg, holiday
• 10/18 Tamara practice talk for InfoVis
• 10/25 no mtg, visweek
• 11/1 no mtg, visweek recovery
• 11/8 Michael reading mental models paper
• 11/15 Stephen
• 11/22 no mtg
• 11/29 Miriah
• 12/6 Michael
• 12/14 (Tue 12:30) Miriah practice talk
• 12/20 no mtg holiday
• 12/27 no mtg holiday

Fall 2009, Tamara has no local students, no meetings

2008-2009 Tamara on sabbatical, no meetings

Meeting Schedule Spring 2008, time 11-12:30 Fridays X530

• Feb 15 James, metagenomics project
• Feb 22 Dan, TugGraph paper draft
• Feb 29 no meeting
• Mar 7 Heidi, ICost paper draft
• Mar 14 Aaron, Cerebral2 paper draft
• Mar 21 Peter, CHI practice talk
• Mar 28 Heidi, BELIV practice talk
• Apr 4 no meeting, infovis deadline recovery
• Apr 11 no meeting (Heidi and Peter at CHI)
• Apr 18 Heidi, phd oral practice talk
• Apr 25
• May 2
• May 9

Meeting Schedule Fall 2007, Fridays 11-12:30, Room X530

• Sep 14->17 Peter, CHI LiveRAC paper draft
• Sep 28 [no in-person meeting] Dan, TVCG GrouseFlocks paper draft
• Oct 5 Aaron, Cerebral pre-paper talk
• Oct 12->16 Tamara, Dagstuhl paper draft [note moved to Tue 11am, Room 206]
• Oct 19 Heidi, SV2 practice talk
• Oct 25 Aaron, CytoscapeRetreat practice talk [note Thu 1-3:30!]
• Oct 26 Tamara, mathvisPanel practice talk
• Nov 2 [no meeting, Vis week]
• Nov 9 Peter (via Skype), dynAD prepaper talk
• Nov 16 Stephen, MS defense practice talk
• Nov 23 no meeting
• Nov 30 Peter, EuroVis dynAD paper draft
• Dec 7 [no meeting, finish EuroVis papers]

No InfoVis Reading Group Fall 2007 Term

Meeting Schedule Summer 2007, Mondays 3:30-5, Room 202

• Jul 9 Aaron Groningen practice talk
• Jul 16 Dan UVic practice talk
• Jul 23 Peter AT&T Summit practice talk

Reading Group Schedule 2007, Thursdays biweekly 2-2:45, in 204.

Aim for 15 minute overview, 30 minutes discussion.

• Jan 18 Peter, paper: A Symbolic Representation of Time Series, with Implications for Streaming Algorithms. Lin, Keogh, Lonardi, and Chiu
• Feb 1 Aaron IPSep-CoLa: An incremental procedure for separation constraint layout of graphs. Dwyer, Koren, Marriott
• Feb 15 Dan Dynamic Drawing of Clustered Graphs Frishman, Yaniv and Tal, Ayellet.
• Mar 1, 15, 29: no reading group the month before InfoVis deadline
• Apr 12 James EncCon: an approach to constructing interactive visualization of large hierarchical data Nguyen and Huang
• Apr 26 Stephen Software Design Patterns for Information Visualization Jeffrey Heer, Maneesh Agrawala
• May 10 Heidi White rooms and morphing don't mix: setting and the evaluation of visualization techniques Reilly & Inkpen
• May 24 Ciaran Llachlan A Transparently Scalable Visualization Architecture for Exploring the Universe Chi-Wing Fu and Andrew J. Hanson
• Jun 7 Peter (instead, Jun 4 interaction/aesthetics pass)
• Jul 5 Dan Online Dynamic Graph Drawing Frishman, Yaniv and Tal, Ayellet.
• Jul 19 James Heatmap Visualisation of Population Based Multi Objective Algorithms Pryke, Mostaghim and Nazemi
• Aug No meetings

Meeting Schedule Spring 2007, Thursdays weekly 9:30-11, in 202.

• Jan 11 set agenda for term
• Jan 22 Stephen Siggraph paper draft [note Mon 4-5:30 not Thu!] Canceled.
• Jan 25 Peter
• Feb 1 Stephen Infovis pre-paper brainstorm. Canceled.
• Feb 8 James
• Feb 15 Aaron biograph prepaper talk
• Feb 27 Dan NetworkGrouse prepaper talk (note Tues 12:30-2:00)
• Mar 1 Aaron biograph paper crit
• Mar 8 Heidi SV2 paper crit
• Mar 13 aesthetics pass for papers going in (note Tue 2-5pm)
• Mar 15 Stephen Infovis paper draft
• Mar 22 Heidi LGEstudy paper crit
• Mar 29 no meeting, finish papers!
• Apr 5 no meeting, go have fun!
• Apr 12 no meeting, go have fun!
• Apr 19 Demo preparation and run-through
• Apr 25 Lab demos
• Apr 26 no meeting, Tamara gone
• May 3 no meeting, Tamara gone
• May 10 Dan Eurovis practice talk
• May 16 Tamara Dagstuhl practice talk
• May 17 - June 28 no meetings, Tamara gone

Reading Group Schedule Fall 2006, Mondays biweekly 4-4:45, in CS 202.

Aim for 15 minute overview, 30 minutes discussion.

• Dec 18 Stephen
• Dec 4 Slot taken for Heidi thesis proposal defense (Room X736)
• Nov 20 James, paper: Dynamic Map Labeling
• Nov 6 Heidi, paper: <a href = "http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/papers/pivotgraph.pdf"> Visual exploration of multivariate graphs </a>
• Oct 23 Aaron, paper: <a href = "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~barskya/readinggroup/flow_map_layout.pdf"> Flow Map Layout </a>
• Oct 9 [no meeting, holiday]
• Sep 25 Dan, paper: Visualizing Large Graphs with Compound-Fisheye Views and Treemaps

Meeting Schedule Fall 2006, Tuesdays weekly 3-4:30, in CS 202

• Dec 12 James (pre-proposal draft talk)
• Dec 5 Dan (Grouse paper draft)
• Nov 28 Heidi (thesis proposal practice talk)
• Nov 21 Dan (Grouse pre-paper talk)
• Nov 14 Aaron
• Nov 7 InfoVis/Vis postmortem
• Oct 31 [no meeting, InfoVis]
• Oct 24 Tamara (howtopublish practice talk)
• Oct 20 Aaron (QuestVis++ pre-paper talk) [note extra Fri slot!]
• Oct 17 Dan (SPF practice talk)
• Oct 10 James (ADnav practice talk)
• Oct 3 Dan (colloq practice talk)
• Sep 26 Stephen (MDS progress)
• Sep 18 Heidi (LGESTudy paper draft) [note Mon not Tue!]
• Sep 12 planning

Meeting Schedule Summer 2006, Tuesdays quasi-monthly 3-4:30, in CS 202

• Aug 15 Peter on LiveRAC results
• Jul 18 Aaron on BioGraph progress
• Jun 20 James ADnav camera-ready draft (due to group Jun 18)
• Jun 6 Dan proposal defense practice talk

Meeting Schedule Jan-May 2006, every other Monday 3 - 4:30, in CS 202

• May 15 planning for summer, change times
• May 1 [no meeting, Tamara gone]
• Apr 17 [no meeting, holiday]
• Apr 3 [no meeting]
• Apr 2 Victory over March 31 paper deadlines celebration (catered by Tamara) - 6 pm, location TBA
• Mar 27 Heidi LGE draft (due to group Mar 24)
• Mar 21 James ADnav draft (due to group Mar 17)
• Mar 20 Dan quasitree draft(due to group Mar 17)
• Mar 13 Heidi IT4 draft (due to group Mar 10)
• Mar 6 James ADnav talk
• Feb 20 Dan quasitree talk
• Feb 6 Heidi IT4 talk
• Jan 23 Updates from everyone
• Jan 9 Peter McLachlan - Network visualization brainstorming

Meeting Schedule 2005, every other Wednesday 12:30-2

• Dec 7 Dmitry Nekrasovski MS defense X736 (boardroom)
• Nov 2 InfoVis/Vis postmortem
• Oct 19 James Slack, Heidi Lam , Dan Archambault practice talks
• Oct 12 Melanie Tory practice talk (9:30am)
• Oct 5 Dan Archambault article
• Sep 16 Adam Bodnar and Dmitry Nekrasovski paper
• Sep 7 Heidi Lam and Eric Brochu, short paper review
• Jul 20 Qiang Kong, present KDD paper Visually Mining and Monitoring Massive Time Series
• Jun 15 Heidi Lam, present MusicLand
• Jun 1 updates from all