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So honored to announce that our paper is receiving the

Best Paper Award🎉! In this work, we examine the trade-offs between trust and performance with COVID-19 forecasts. Video: youtu.be/ANvggQpcNXE Preprint: psyarxiv.com/2sq7j

@FILWD

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UW Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE)

@hcdeUW

Jan 27

In a new

@TheAtlantic

article, HCDE Prof. Kate Starbird explains that a recent study on Russian interference in the 2016 election doesn't account for the many avenues that information travels.

theatlantic.com

Will the 2016 Election Ever End?

New research about the Kremlin’s election interference raises more questions than it answers.

How psychology can help people make better decisions, with Lace Padilla, PhD, and Hannah Perfecto,...

Jan 26

I had a great time chatting with

@APA

about how psychology can help people make better decisions. Spoiler: more effective communication, such as #datavis can help people understand future events!

apa.org

Lace Padilla, PhD, and Hannah Perfecto, PhD, discuss why people make bad decisions, how even small changes in the way choices are presented can nudge us to make different ones, and how can decision...

American Psychological Association

@APA

Jan 25

All day, every day, we make decisions, from what to have for breakfast to how to spend our money to whether to evacuate ahead of a hurricane. On today's pod, Drs. Hannah Perfecto and

How psychology can help people make better decisions, with Lace Padilla, PhD, and Hannah Perfecto,...

share the science behind these choices—even the bad ones.

apa.org

IEEE VIS

Dec 23, 2022

📢 G’day! #ieeevis is headed to Australia in 2023! We invite you to share your research, insights, and enthusiasm at IEEE VIS. The 2023 program will also feature a diverse range of symposia and co-located events. 1/5

Martin Saveski

@msaveski

Nov 7, 2022

[Please RT] I’m recruiting PhD students to start Fall’23 at

@UW

! I’m looking for students passionate about using computational methods to study how social platforms can be reimagined to enable better conversations, bridge political divides, and reduce the spread of misinfo. >>

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Lace Padilla (@lace@vis.social)

Nov 6, 2022

Looking forward to connecting with you all on Mastodon! See you there 👋

vis.social

20 Posts, 284 Following, 546 Followers · Assistant Professor in Cognitive & Information Sciences at UC Merced. Studies decision-making with visualizations, mostly those w/ uncertainty, such as...

@alexlex@vis.social

@alexander_lex

Nov 3, 2022

If you're thinking about grad-school with a focus on #datavisualization – I'm looking for PhD students. Check out our lab page: vdl.sci.utah.edu.

@uusci

is one of the most vibrant places for visualization research! And SLC is an outdoor enthusiast's dream!

Matthew Kay

@mjskay

Nov 2, 2022

A few weeks ago we launched our 2022 governor election forecast site as part of a research study on how folks interpret election forecasts. If you are interested in participating, please visit forecasts.cs.northwestern.edu, pick a state, then fill out a brief survey. Thanks!

Screenshot of http://forecasts.cs.northwestern.edu/, showing a map with states colored according to the forecasted winner of the 2022 governor election in that state.

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Harvard Data Science Initiative

Oct 26, 2022

Looking forward to this line up!

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@harvard_data

Oct 26, 2022

New speakers announced! We are delighted that @nataliexdean and @LacePadilla will be joining the Day 2 Panel 1: Communicating Data Science – Trust with complexity, along with @hpfister, @carolinanobre84, and @XiaoLiMeng1.

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Harvard Data Science Initiative

@harvard_data

Oct 26, 2022

📢 New speakers announced! We are delighted that

@nataliexdean

and

will be joining the Day 2 Panel 1: Communicating Data Science – Trust with complexity, along with

, and

Chase Stokes @chase@vis.social

Oct 21, 2022

A must-read!

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@chasejstokes

Oct 21, 2022

So happy to share my first first-author conference paper! I (and four brilliant collaborators: @vsetlur @WindsCogley @arvindsatya1 and Marti Hearst) found that readers prefer charts with more text and that this text has subtle and strong influences on reader takeaways.

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Four variants depicting the same fictional information. Gray dashed arrows sit between each variant, pointing to the next. On the far right is a text paragraph, “The presidential approval rating held steady from 2015 to 2017 at around 42%. In 2017, the president introduced a popular initiative combating child hunger. This led to a quick increase in approval rating, doubling to around 80%. However, the positive sentiment did not last. Due to widespread corruption, the approval rating fell back to around 37% by 2018 and has continued to decline steadily to almost 0% following an impeachment.” The other three variants are line charts depicting this data, each with a different amount of text. The first variant has no text except axes labels, the second has a title, “President approval rating over 5 years (2015-2020)” and an annotation, “Maximum” accompanied by a blue dot. The third chart has additional annotations, highlighting the child hunger initiative and the corruption.

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ALT

Oct 19, 2022

Very thought provoking paper showing that prior beliefs about the relationship between topics lead to over **and** underestimation of correlations. 🤔

Chase Stokes @chase@vis.social

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@chasejstokes

Oct 19, 2022

Great presentation, @thecindyxiong ! Excited to share these findings - an individual's prior belief affects how they interpret the correlation of scatterplots

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Cindy Xiong presents "Seeing What You Believe or Believing What You See? Belief Biases Correlation Estimation," written with co-authors Chase Stokes, Yea-Seul Kim, and Steven Franconeri. Slide also displays images of scatterplot correlation estimations on a white background.

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John A. Guerra Gómez @ #ieeevis

@duto_guerra

Oct 19, 2022

Awesome

presentation by our own

@KhouryVIS

@laurasouth_

on the risks of visualization for photosensitive people 👏 👏 👏 with

@michelle_borkin

. Great to see more work combining #a11y and #dataviz osf.io/8kzmg/ #dataviz #vis22

Laura presenting her concluding slide describing the risk model

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Oct 18, 2022

Congratulations to Michael Sedlmair,

@miriah_meyer

and

@tamaramunzner

for the test of time award at #vis22. This is one of my favorite papers and an absolute classic. Well deserved 🎉

Alex Kale

@AlexKale17

Oct 15, 2022

Just a reminder that I’m recruiting PhD students at UChicago!

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Alex Kale

@AlexKale17

Jul 11, 2022

I’m recruiting PhD students this cycle @UChicagoCS @DSI_UChicago. If you’re excited about visualization, if you have burning questions about how people think with data, if you want to create statistical software, apply to work with me! cs.uchicago.edu/academics/admi

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TREX VIS 2022 Workshop

@TrexInVIS

Oct 4, 2022

Can we measure trust in data visualizations more creatively than Likert scales? Processing fluency & trust games can be used 2 measure trust in data visualizations. Learn more at #TREXVIS2022 w/

@ElhamdadiHamza

@thecindyxiong

Oct. 16th trexvis.github.io/Workshop2022/i

Two scatterplots depicting the same dataset. The left scatter plot is titled “High Perceptual Fluency.” The right scatter plot is titled “Low Perceptual Fluency.” Both scatter plots have tick marks on the x and y axes from 0 to 100 in steps of 10 (i.e. 0, 10, 20, etc). The tick marks on the x axes are labeled with dollar signs (i.e. $0, $10, $20, etc). The left scatter plot has light, grey, semi-transparent gridlines. The right scatter plot has dark, black, opaque gridlines. We hypothesize that the left scatter plot will be more highly trusted because it has higher fluency, thus potentially making perceptual fluency a proxy metric of trust

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This work indicates that visualization design choices easily influence trust, and trust is not indicative of successful interpretation. Thank you to the best paper committee and the generous reviewers for thoughtfully considering this work. We are beyond honored. 8/8

We found that viewers do not appropriately scale their trust to the indicated confidence interval size, as seen in this figure. 7/8

Given the consistently high trust for the 95% CI, we wanted to test if part of that trust was due to the label indicating “95% confidence.” So we conducted a follow-up study where we changed the figure caption to read as 25, 50, 95, or 99% but left the interval size the same. 6/8

Consistently, people had high trust in visualizations that showed less visual information, including 95% CI, a single median forecast, and grayscale encoded forecasts. The 95% CI and the median forecast also consistently produced poor performance in the trend judgment task. 5/8

We found that adding more forecasts in MFVs generally increases trust until a plateau around 6-9 forecasts, which also results in trend predictions most consistent with the future event. 4/8

We conducted 2 experiments with real-time COVID-19 mortality data and forecasts from the US. Exp 1 examined the impact of the # of forecasts and the presence or absence of color on trust. Exp 2 examined the impact of best- and worst-case forecasts on trust. 3/8

This study examines multiple forecast visualizations (MFVs), a type of chart where uncertainty is encoded implicitly through the disagreement (or lack thereof) of multiple forecasts plotted in the same space, which informs readers about the range and shape of predictions. 2/8

Aug 16, 2022

I've upgraded my video setup for my new vis class, and I tested it out with this paper preview on #COVID19 #Datavisualization, to be presented at

. What do you think? w/

@FILWD

psyarxiv.com/2sq7j

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Aug 12, 2022

Congratulations to

@Zoe_S_Loh

for receiving the Psychonomic's Yates Award. Well done! psychonomic.org/page/2022Yates

IEEE VIS

Aug 8, 2022

🐣 VISKids Childcare Grants Submission Deadline: Aug 14, 2022 The IEEE VIS conference is excited to support our VISKids and young families! VISKids has provided child care grants since 2015. ieeevis.org/year/2022/info 1/2

Aug 8, 2022

I really enjoyed discussing the 'future of science of decision making' with this superstar panel, at #APA2022.

@decisionslab

Valerie Reyna, Paul Glimcher, Hannah Perfecto

Committee for the Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Diversity (APAGS-CARED)

Spark Society

@SocietySpark

Aug 4, 2022

The Peer Collaboration Program is a 10–week program designed to bring together BIPOC graduate students across psychology programs to build social support networks and encourage professional growth. Applications are due August 31, 11:59PM ET

apa.org

The the subcommittee of APAGS that represents and advocates for the perspectives and concerns of ethnic minority graduate students within the discipline of psychology.

Aug 3, 2022

Friendly reminder that the Diversity Scholarship and Child Care Grant deadline for

is Aug. 14. You don't need to be presenting to apply for either. Please RT. Thanks! ieeevis.org/year/2022/info ieeevis.org/year/2022/info

Spark Society

@SocietySpark

Jul 27, 2022

Please come check out our upcoming CogSci Tutorials! Wednesday July 27th, starting at 12:30pm ET - "Building Trust and Conducting Research with Minoritized Communities" Friday July 29th, 10:20-12:00p ET - "SPARK Symposium: Race, Culture, and Language"

Jul 21, 2022

Very excited that our work on COVID-19 multiple forecast visualizations (MVF) was accepted

! Prepint:psyarxiv.com/2sq7j Check out this paper if you want to know how to balance trust and performance with #COVID19 forecasts!

@FILWD

Racquel Fygenson and Spencer Castro

Jul 16, 2022

Full link: ieeevis.org/year/2022/info

Jul 16, 2022

I hope you received exciting news about #VIS2022 paper acceptances and are now considering ways to attend

. If $$ is a consideration and you qualify, apply for the Inclusivity & Diversity Scholarship!! shorturl.at/aCUWY Deadline: Aug 14 Notifications: Aug 26

Dr. Mitch Prinstein

@mitchprinstein

Jul 6, 2022

Panel 2 addresses how we make decisions, what influences our decisions, & integrating our knowledge across the field. Our panelists:

@decisionslab

Paul Glimcher, Hannah Perfecto, Valerie Reyna.

VisHikers’ Guide to Evaluation: Competing Considerations in Study Design

Emily Wall

@profembwall

Jun 24, 2022

An eloquent articulation of competing consideration for study design, or one step shy of unhinged ranting on the reviews we get back for our rejected papers with evals? Check out our new paper, VisHikers' Guide to Evaluation: computer.org/csdl/magazine/

@thecindyxiong

@YeaseulKim

computer.org

In this Viewpoint article, we describe the persistent tensions between various camps on the 'right' way to conduct evaluations in visualization. Visualization as a field is the amalgamation of...