communicating with data
Jeff Heer, Scott Murray and myself have done a d3 tutorial at visWeek 2012. You probably gathered that from the title of the post. Here is a link to all the slides and code examples that we have presented: d3 tutorial For the purpose of the tutorial I have compiled a d3 cheat sheet, on [...]
Inspiration In June 2010, I attended a Wolfram|Alpha event called the London Computational Knowledge Summit where speakers mostly focused on how computers can transform the way we teach and transmit knowledge. Several of the presentations made a lasting impression, and mostly the talk by Jon McLoone: Jon’s point was that academic papers today look an [...]
At the recent VisWeek conference, Jessica Hullman and her coauthors presented ”Benefitting Infovis with Visual Difficulties (pdf)”, a paper that suggests that the charts which are read almost effortlessly are not necessarily the ones that readers understand or remember best. To answer that claim, Stephen Few wrote a rather harsh critique of this paper (pdf). As I read this [...]
This year I have participated to the VAST Challenge (VAST stands for visual analytics science and technology). The VAST symposium is part of the yearly VisWeek conferences. Anyway. The rules required contestants to send videos with voiceovers, so without further ado here they are. Watch me in HD instead!! Watch me in HD too!! If [...]
Vis week 2010 View more presentations from Jérôme Cukier. Visweek 2010 is just over. With lectures and presentations going on in up to 4 rooms simultaneously for 6 straight and very full days, it’s impossible to see everything let alone to describe it. And even that would be ignoring all exchanges and social interactions which [...]
This Wednesday, I had the privilege of talking at Visweek at a panel with Robert Kosara, Sarah Cohen and Martin Wattenberg. That was a truly great experience (at least from that side of the microphone). We all had a different approach to the subject. Sarah showed some of the stories she ran on the Washington [...]