Author: David Gotz
Sch of Inform and Libr Science

With the conclusion of IEEE VIS and our multiple paper presentations in Vancouver, our attention has started shifting to the upcoming AMIA Annual Symposium in Washington, DC.  Our group (and collaborators) will be presenting two abstracts during the five day …

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Following up on the earlier news that my research team has two full journal papers appearing at IEEE VIS, we’ve also had our short paper about Periphery Plots accepted in the IEEE VIS short paper program.   But that’s not …

Third IEEE VIS Paper and Best Paper Award Read More »

My group is currently recruiting for two Undergraduate Research Assistants to join us for the 2019-2020 academic year with an option to continue through Summer 2020.  Students will be supported through funds from the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) …

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We’ve recently learned that not one, but TWO articles from the VACLab will be part of IEEE VIS 2019 and published in the January 2020 issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).   Both papers are related to …

Two Papers Accepted for IEEE VIS Read More »

Several recent projects have reached a level of maturity where we are able to release open-source software via GitHub. While a number of manuscripts for these projects remain under peer review in advance of eventual publication, we’ve released two open-source …

New software released for VACLab projects Read More »

I’m excited to announced that I’ve been named a 2019-2020 University Scholar by RTI International.  Starting in September, I’ll be spending time at RTI’s headquarters to work with the RTI Center of Data Science on collaborative research projects.  Our joint …

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I’m excited to report that the long-running Task Force on Evaluation, organized by AMIA’s VIS Working Group, has published its findings in a JAMIA article released earlier this year.  The task force, co-chaired by myself and Danny Wu, was one …

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Our research team has a new article out in Information Visualization related to our work on contextual visualization.  The abstract of the paper is as follows: Data visualizations typically show a representation of a data set with little to no …

Inline Replication article appears in Information Visualization Read More »

A new article from our group has been published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) focused on the concept of contextual visualization.  The article defines the term contextual visualization, motivates the importance of contextual visualization as a research topic, …

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The AMIA Annual Symposium is one the premier meetings in the field of biomedical and health informatics.  This 2018 AMIA Annual Symposium was held in San Francisco from November 3-7, and VACLab research was well represented. First, Wanchen Zhao presented …

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