Andrew McNutt

If you want to learn more about the design of Color Buddy (as well as a bunch of ideas about the nature of evaluating color palettes) please check out our #ieeevis paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21285 (or come to the talk on wednesday!)

In the first week of my phd i wound up trapped in a party conversation with a cs-theory person their big question about vis was "where does the field of vis want to be in 10 years". I kinda stumbled out a "its a human factors field, that's not how it works" answer (they weren't satisfied by this answer and eventually convinced themselves it was showing higher and higher numbers of dimensions graphically, which is dumb) but here i am 8 years later and i basically don't really know still

sometimes i think we need some more "grand challenges" type north starring, other times i think we need to change the name of the field (so that we aren't as focused on pictures). a throughline from the VDS disco was that maybe we should go work with other people in their home venues also feels salient, but also raises a question: why is vis itself a field? if we're support should we not just go do support where it's needed?

Visions link: https://visionsofthefuture.github.io/

@Birdbassador @arvindsatya i would love to see workshops integrated into the main program, the way that chi currently/used to put associated events in with the main program (e.g. altchi/SIGs/etc)

obviously there's no one answer to these or related anxieties, but it was honestly a little cathartic to hear people voicing some woes related to these

@JamesWidman nope! i see that someone else thought of the same dumb pun we did (color palette -> color pal -> color buddy!)

@jzong congrats!! So well deserved

@danmarce@mastodon.lordofthedummies.com @Elucidating@mastodon.social had the same thought/exp

@arvind @Birdbassador I had similar thoughts! https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2023/jan/military-expenditures-how-top-spending-nations-compare

(if you are longing for the in person vis experience, know that if you had got trapped in a party conversation with me, this is probably what i'd talk about :)

@jazz (just to clarify a lil: for a bit I was aspiring to do complexity stuff but never got around to it. But! I am very excited to read this article soon)