Abstract
VisWeek 2010 covered the latest visualization and data analysis research and offered an excellent forum for discussing new trends in these fields.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 5725238 |
| Pages (from-to) | 70-77 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Computing in Science and Engineering |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Visualization
- conference report
- data analysis
- visual analytics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- General Engineering
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In: Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 2, 5725238, 03.2011, p. 70-77.
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T1 - A report from VisWeek 2010
AU - Scheidegger, Carlos
AU - Silva, Cláudio T.
AU - Weiskopf, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information: V isWeek (www.visweek.org) is VisWeek History interfaces. VisWeek reflects the rela-the premier scientific event VisWeek began with the IEEE Visu-tionship of the visualization subareas for visualization research, alization Conference in 1990, which by combining the three conferences. bringing together researchers and from the start has played an impor- practitioners from academia, indus-tant role in forming the computer-VisWeek 2010 Overview try, and government. It’s a great place based visualization field. The seed of VisWeek partly consisted of the paper to exchange ideas relating to visual-the conference’s development was the tracks for the Vis, InfoVis, and VAST ization, and it offers a wide range of 1987 US National Science Foundation conferences. We’ll highlight and learning opportunities for novice and report, Visualization in Scientific Com- briefly present a few of those paper experienced attendees alike. puting, which made the case for using contributions later in this report. The Sponsored by the IEEE Computer visualization and triggered many ac-Vis and InfoVis papers are published Society’s Visualization and Graph-tivities in data visualization from sci-in the flagship visualization journal ics Technical Committee (www.vgtc. ence and engineering. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and org), VisWeek 2010 took place in Oc-Over the years, visualization in Computer Graphics; VAST papers ap-tober 2010 in Salt Lake City, Utah, scientific computing, or scientific vi- pear in the VAST proceedings pub-and had approximately 850 attend-sualization, has been complemented lished by the IEEE Computer Society ees. The general chairs of VisWeek by information visualization and vi- Press. 2010 were Ross Whitaker and Cláudio sual analytics, which have recently All three conferences have similar T. Silva (both currently at the Univer-experienced huge growth. Scientific acceptance rates of approximately 26 sity of Utah) and Klaus Mueller (Stony visualization traditionally focuses on to 28 percent: Vis 2010 accepted 49 Brook University). VisWeek serves as representing data with implicit spatial papers out of 185 submissions, InfoVis an umbrella for three conferences: embedding, such as simulated tem-accepted 35 out of 135 submissions, IEEE Visualization (Vis), IEEE perature distribution in 3D space. and VAST accepted 26 out of 94 sub-Information Visualization (InfoVis), Information visualization’s focus is on missions. All papers were reviewed by and IEEE Visual Analytics Science data without spatial embedding, such members of the international program and Technology (VAST). In addi-as networks of links on the Internet. committees and external reviewers. tion, VisWeek sometimes features Melanie Tory and Torsten Möller of-For the journal publications of Vis colocated events; this year, it was the fer more background on spatial and and InfoVis, a two-stage reviewing 2010 Symposium on Software Visual-nonspatial visualization.4 Of course, process required minor revisions of ization (SoftVis). the separation between informa-conditionally accepted papers.
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - VisWeek 2010 covered the latest visualization and data analysis research and offered an excellent forum for discussing new trends in these fields.
AB - VisWeek 2010 covered the latest visualization and data analysis research and offered an excellent forum for discussing new trends in these fields.
KW - Visualization
KW - conference report
KW - data analysis
KW - visual analytics
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