DisInfoVis - Articles, Videos, Poster

MSc Data Science graduate Alexa Pavliuc has been working in DisInfoVis - exploring the design and use of temporal networks for visualizing disinformation operations.

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Alexa's work has been published through a EuroVIS 2020 poster and two Medium articles. The first is on her MSc Research - DisInfoVis: How to Understand Networks of Disinformation Through Visualization.

The second is based on additional work undertaken with the Mozilla Foundation and visualizes six Twitter-based disinformation operations - Watch six decade-long disinformation operations unfold in six minutes.

You can find more details on Alexa’s DisInfoVis repository.

Thanks to the Data Science Institute at City for awarding the stipend through which Alexa was able to complete much of the work. And best wishes to Alexa as she begins a DPhil in Social Data Science at the University of Oxford, where she will continue her studies of networks of disinformation.

Charity Executives Networking Lunch

We’re meeting with local organizations on December 11th as part of City’s Social Responsibility programme.

Links related to the giCentre talk are here :

• https://www.gicentre.net/networkingdec19

Criteria for Rigor in Visualization Design Study

Jason Dykes and Miriah Meyer of the Visualization Design Lab, University of Utah, presented their 'rigor' paper at IEEE VIS in Vancouver. The paper intends to move visualization design researchers away from the kinds of system related findings and process orientated validation approach that are typical of design studies and towards ways of developing subjective knowledge constructs from applied visualization design contexts.

The paper frames visualization design study through an interpretivist perspective and aims to give design study researchers criteria that support subjective, reflexive, constructive activity. The paper also taps in to the 'design as research' and 'artefact as knowledge' strands of design (research) to frame the kinds of creative design and thinking that we do in visualization. It intends to give visualization researchers who design in applied contexts confidence in developing and presenting knowledge constructs relating to their experiences and observations of people using visualization to explore data.

Check out the 10-page IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics paper, or watch the 12 minute IEEE VIS presentation to find out how design study research may benefit from explicitly considering six criteria: INFORMED; ABUNDANT; REFLEXIVE; PLAUSIBLE; RESONANT; TRANSPARENT