I presented a summary of my thesis work at the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education in 2017. This is one of my favorite academic conferences, because its small size and remote location (on the campus of Bates College in Lewiston Maine) helps to foster deeper, more meaningful conversations between participants and…
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Detour #2, Part C: Coming Back to the Problem at Hand
This post is part of a series focused on exploring DVS 2020 survey data to understand more about tool usage in data vis. See other posts in the series using the ToolsVis tag. The last post talked about some general insights into the structure of my data that came out of my recent foray into weaving as…
Detour #2, Part B: Insights from Weaving
This post is part of a series focused on exploring DVS 2020 survey data to understand more about tool usage in data vis. See other posts in the series using the ToolsVis tag. In the last post, I wrote about a weaving project that has been helping me to understand data processing in R. That’s not quite as…
Detour #2: Adventures in Weaving
This post is part of a series focused on exploring DVS 2020 survey data to understand more about tool usage in data vis. See other posts in the series using the ToolsVis tag. In the last post, we talked about a series of explorations using gathers in fabric to inform my understanding of the data structure that…
Detour #1: Exploring Gathers
This post is part of a series focused on exploring DVS 2020 survey data to understand more about tool usage in data vis. See other posts in the series using the ToolsVis tag. After the last post, I decided to do a little hands-on exploration in the physical world, using the metaphors that came up while I…
Tackling the Boulder
Recalculating…
This post is part of a series focused on exploring DVS 2020 survey data to understand more about tool usage in data vis. See other posts in the series using the ToolsVis tag. As this exploration continues, I’m working my way deeper and deeper into the data, trying to get to an understanding of which tools people…
Better Together: Pairwise analysis of tools
This post is part of a series focused on exploring DVS 2020 survey data to understand more about tool usage in data vis. See other posts in the series using the ToolsVis tag. Playing around with the branching vis from the last article got me thinking about which aspects of the tool grouping really matter. What I…
Exploring the Tools Tree
This post is part of a series focused on exploring DVS 2020 survey data to understand more about tool usage in data vis. See other posts in the series using the ToolsVis tag. In the last installment, I focused on extracting simple counts from the tools dataset to get an idea of what was in…
Pivot to Tools
I’ve taken an unexpected pivot in the past couple of months, and took on a position as director of education for the Data Vis Society. As a result of that, some work craziness, and needing to move unexpectedly this summer, the PlantVis project is on hold until further notice. But there’s still a lot of…