Dear Members of the VIS Community, we are organizing a panel “The Future of Interactive Data Analysis and Visualization” at EuroVis, on Wednesday June 14, 11:00-12:30. We are happy to have five excellent panelists: Johanna Schmidt, Timo Ropinski, Alvitta Ottley, Michael Sedlmair, and Marc Streit! https://www.eurovis.org/ For the panel, we are asking YOU to submit questions/statements/positions regarding the three leading questions about the past, the presence, and the future of VIS! https://forms.gle/uiPEuy18VfoQDsaS6 Types of questions that may be relevant (not limited to): - provoking questions - questions about the (good old) past, (intensive) present, and (pessimistic/optimistic on) future of VIS - questions about how VIS relates to other research fields, such as ML, HCI, etc. Question ranking criteria - scientific content is preferred over meta and organizational aspects - questions from EuroVis attendees will be preferred - one question per participant will be selected (to foster heterogeneity and inclusivity) - provoking questions will be preferred - short and concise questions will be preferred We are looking forward to having this special interactive panel with you in person in Leipzig! This is an excellent opportunity for Ph.D. students, academics, practitioners, and enthusiasts of VIS to have their questions answered by VIS with quite some experience and seniority! So take your chance to submit a question! We look forward to meeting you in June! Best regards, The EuroVis Panel Organizers, Jürgen Bernard and Mennatallah El-Assady Panel Abstract: The interactive data analysis and visualization (VIS) community has prospered for over thirty years. Generation after generation, the community has evolved its understanding of research problems and, along the way, contributed various techniques, applications, and research methods. While some of the developed techniques have stood the test of time, we will consider what else needs to be remembered or even revitalized from the good old days in this panel. Further, VIS is currently facing exciting times, with great changes and trends within and outside the community. Thus, in this panel, we want to analyze current research trends and discuss our most exciting ideas and directions. Looking ahead, it can already be anticipated that the future of VIS is subject to change. In this panel, we want to map out future research directions for our community. Along these three lines, the guiding theme of our interactive panel will be three types of (provoking) statements: (i) In the good old days, I liked when we did . . . (ii) Currently, a most exciting trend is … & (iii) In the future, we will be doing . . . Come and join us to reflect on past and present trends, daring a look ahead to an exciting future for the interactive data analysis and visualization community! -- Jürgen Bernard Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Zurich juergen-bernard.de