August 2011 - Infovis

Data files available (InfoVis, VAST, CHI papers)
by John Stasko 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

If you would like some simple data files that describe every InfoVis and VAST Conference paper in the history of those conferences, we have created such files and have made them now available for download. The files contain a simple xml-ish format describing each paper, its title and abstract, authors, conference, year, keywords, etc. We believe that the format will be easy to read and understand. Also available on the same site is a file containing information about CHI conference papers since 1999. You can download the files from the webpage http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/jigsaw/datafiles.html. We hope that these files will be useful to researchers in the community exploring new methods of visualizing and understanding collections of documents. Unfortunately, the data files do not include citation information. We would be happy to have someone add that information to the files, however. :^) --John

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Research Scientist in Visual Analytics open position
by John Stasko 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

FODAVA: Seeking a Research Scientist The FODAVA (Foundations of Data Analysis and Visual Analytics) Center at Georgia Tech is seeking a Research Scientist to join our team. Enormous amounts of data are being generated every day in health care, computational biology, homeland security, commerce, and many other areas. Analyzing these massive and complex data sets is essential to achieve new discoveries, but is extremely difficult. An emerging research field known as data and visual analytics is concerned with synthesizing information and deriving insight from massive, dynamic, ambiguous and possibly conflicting digital data for increased understanding and effective decision making. The FODAVA research initiative is dedicated to both defining the foundations of the data and visual analytics fields and advancing the state-of-the-art. Established in 2008, the FODAVA initiative is a collaborative effort funded jointly by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For further information about the Center, please see http://fodava.gatech.edu/. We are seeking a Research Scientist (RS) to join our group and assist with ongoing research. The position will involve work on two main projects. First, the RS will contribute to the Jigsaw project (http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/ii/jigsaw) Specifically, the RS will lead an effort into modifying the architecture of the system and creating a new API that will allow other software systems to better interact with it. Second, the RS will help build a visual analytics system for document discovery based on the fundamental data analytic theory and methods we have developed. The system will allow users to find and become aware of documents of interest among a sea of incoming documents such as research papers obtained with a crawler from across the internet. In addition to these two projects, there will be opportunities for the RS to collaborate on other ongoing research as well as to initiate new projects. Georgia Tech faculty are dedicated to working with the successful applicant in mentoring and career growth. The ideal candidate should have at least an MS in a related discipline or a BS with equivalent experience. Prior work in areas such as visual analytics, data analysis, data mining, machine learning, and/or HCI will be extremely useful. Candidates also should have strong software engineering and programming skills (knowledge of Java and Swing is a must) and good verbal, writing, and communication skills. This is a 2-year position, beginning Fall 2011. To apply, please send a brief cover letter describing your background and interests, as well as a your current CV, to Ms. Lometa Mitchell (lometa(a)cc.gatech.edu) Please direct informal questions about the position to Prof. Haesun Park (hpark(a)cc.gatech.edu) and/or Prof. John Stasko (stasko(a)cc.gatech.edu) We will review applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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CFP: IEEE VisWeek 2011 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making
by Eser Kandogan 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

IEEE VisWeek 2011 Workshop on Interactive Visual Text Analytics for Decision Making Website: http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/textvis2011/ Date: MONDAY, October 24. ** PAPERS DUE THIS FRIDAY! ** Location: Providence, RI Analyzing text documents has become increasingly an important part of decision making in large corporations, small businesses, and households. This workshop will explore advanced research in the field of text visualization and analytics and their applications. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in text visualization, text analytics, and visual analytics, to define the emerging fields of visual text analytics, and to discuss ideas, techniques, and applications to support decision making in different domains. Important Dates: Papers Due: Sep 2, 2011 Notification of Papers: Sep 16, 2011 Final Papers Due: Sep 30, 2011 Madness Participation Registration: Oct 10, 2011 Topics: We invite paper submissions that address any topic related to visual text analytics and application domains especially how interactive visual text analytics can facilitate decision making. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: · Visual and interaction design for text analytics · Visual representation, structure, metaphors for text · Perception and cognition in text visualizations · Systems, languages, and architectures for text analytics · Methodologies, processes for visual text analysis · Collaborative analysis of text corpora · Real-time visualization of streaming text data · Visual text analytics in social media · Industry-specific applications of visual text analytics (e.g. Retail, Healthcare, Government, etc.) · Studies of analytic work on document collections · Evaluation of visualization techniques; Metrics and bench-marks · Datasets and tasks for visual text analytics to facilitate decision making · Representations of uncertainty in text analytics Submission: We are looking for research and industry papers related to visual text analytics with a focus on facilitating human decision making. Papers are limited to 4 pages. A subset of the accepted papers will be invited for a 15 minute (plus 5 minutes for questions) oral presentation at the workshop. All other accepted papers will be presented as posters during the poster session. Papers must be formatted according to VisWeek format (see http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html) Papers must be submitted by email to the conference organizers (eser(a)us.ibm.com) by September 2, 2011. Final versions of the papers are due September 30, 2011. The program will also include a madness session at the beginning of the workshop to allow anyone attending the workshop to briefly introduce themselves, their work, and state their positions and goals related to the scope of the workshop. If you are planning to attend the workshop you are welcome to send an email to conference organizers to ensure a slot in the madness session by Oct 10, 2011. For more information please visit the workshop web page at http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/textvis2011/, or send email to Eser Kandogan (eser(a)us.ibm.com) Regards, Christopher Collins, Eser Kandogan, Michelle Zhou, and Shixia Liu -------------------------------------------- Eser Kandogan, Ph.D. User Systems and Experience Research, Computer Science IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 Ph: 408-927-1949

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IJITWE -- Special Issue on Visualization and Integration on the Web: Deadline Extension
by Alessandro Bozzon 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you!] *************************************************************************** 2nd C A L L F O R P A P E R S IJITWE -- Special Issue on Visualization and Integration on the Web Journal Website: http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1093&detailst… **************************************************************************** INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB ENGINEERING (IJITWE) SPECIAL ISSUE ON Visualization and Integration on the Web *EXTENDED SUBMISSION DATE*: September 24th, 2011 Aims and Scope -------------- Recent years witnessed a proliferation of semi-structured, structured, and semantically annotated data on the Web: an increasing amount of individuals, public organization and enterprises, is currently publishing information for free usage. The nature and the abundance of such structured data shifts the nature of user interactions, where models based on navigation of documents are replaced by paradigms that leverage the exploration of object repositories; in such a context, providing a satisfactory user experience has proven to be a challenging task for application developers. In addition, as the richness and value of data also increases, Web applications must provide users with visualizations and interaction paradigms that leverage properties such as the underlying data relationships, source type, provenance, and quality. Contextually, the availability of a wide spectrum of high-level data integration tools - such as mash-up platforms ‚Äì has offered to developers (and to end users) several means for the integration of such data, enabling novel applications and business scenario. The usage of the Web as a common publication, mediation, aggregation, and consumption platform decreased the existing gap between Web and enterprise applications, which often leverage common data integration methodologies and tools. As a consequence, a deeper understanding of data integration, visualization and user interaction issues is becoming more and more compelling in applications design and development. In order to tackle the new challenges provided by a Web of Data, data integration, visualization and user interaction methodologies and tools need to be revised to effectively manage the design and the interaction application with information. The objective of this special issue is to review recent works that address state-of-the-art of analysis and design techniques on how to create effective Web applications where the integration, visualization and interaction with data is a main concern, as well as the application of assessed methods and techniques to existing design and development environments. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: * Integration and visualization of heterogeneous data on the Web * Interfaces for Web-scale and large-scale data repositories search and exploration * Linked Data visualization and exploration * Taxonomies and ontologies for data visualization * Lightweight (semantic) metadata or knowledge integration * Conceptual models for data visualization and exploration * Data visualization for next-generation mobile devices * Studies on quality, usability, effectiveness of data visualization techniques * Innovative uses of tag clouds * Ambient information displays * Data visualization for large screens and interactive tablets * Augmented reality and cross-media interfaces * Visualizations for multimodal interaction * Tools for Web data visualizations * Applications: Search, Semantic Web, Social Web and Web 2.0, Adaptive and personalized Web applications, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse Guest Editors ------------- * Alessandro Bozzon (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) * Sara Comai (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) * Moira Norrie (ETH Z≈±rich, Switzerland) Submission Procedure -------------------- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Visualization and Integration in Enterprises and on the Web on or before August 20, 2011. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL‚ÄôS GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igiglobal.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. All submissions should be directed to the attention of: Alessandro Bozzon, Sara Comai, Moira Norrie Guest Editors INT. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB ENGINEERING E-mails: alessandro.bozzon(a)polimi.it, sara.comai(a)polimi.it, norrie(a)inf.ethz.ch About IJITWE ------------ This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/ijitwe The INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND WEB ENGINEERING is published quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) since 2006 by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the ‚ÄúInformation Science Reference‚Äù (formerly Idea Group Reference), ‚ÄúMedical Information Science Reference‚Äù, ‚ÄúBusiness Science Reference‚Äù, and ‚ÄúEngineering Science Reference‚Äù imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. -Editors-in-Chief- * Ghazi I. Alkhatib (Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan) * Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy) Indices ------- Burrelle's Media Directory, Cabell's Directory, Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), CSA Illumina. DBLP, Gale Directory of Publication & Broadcast Media, GetCited, Google Scholar, The Index of Information Systems Journals, INSPEC, MediaFinder, SCOPUS, The Standard Periodical Directory, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

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WikiViz 2011 extended deadline: August 28, 2011
by Dario Taraborelli 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

We received several requests to extend the submission deadline for WikiViz 2011 – a competition organized by WikiSym and the Wikimedia Foundation to visualize WIkipedia's impact with open data. The WikiSym committee is glad to announce that the deadline has been extended to August 28 2011. http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/wikiviz:presentation http://twitter.com/WikiViz/status/104349201680437248 The 3 finalists will have travel costs covered for the awarding ceremony at WikiSym 2011 in Mountain View, CA (3-5 October 2011) and their work showcased at the conference, featured in our partners' dataviz outlets (FlowingData, Information Aesthetics, Periscopic, Visualizing.org) and published by El Mundo – the largest digital newspaper by readership in Spanish. Please circulate the call to anyone who might be interested. Best, Dario -- Dario Taraborelli, PhD Senior Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://nitens.org/taraborelli

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