News and Notes

Look below for recent updates from the VACLab. There are two sections: News for announcements and our /etc section for commentary or technical posts.

News

VACLab at IEEE VIS 2022: Three Papers, a Poster, and a Panel

VACLab researchers are sharing their research throughout the week at IEEE VIS 2022, the premier international conference for …

New Article on Content Recommendation Design to Appear at IEEE VIS and in IEEE TVCG

VACLab-er Zhilan Zhou is first author for a new article that characterizes the design space for content recommendation within visual …

New NSF Grant to Study Visualization and Causal Inference

VACLab members David Gotz and David Borland have secured a new award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study visual causal …

Congratulations to Dr. Alex Rich!

VACLab-er Alex Rich successfully defended his dissertation titled ‘Building and Evaluating Detailed Graphical Financial Conflict …

David Gotz Named McColl Term Professor, Promoted to Full Professorship

VACLab director David Gotz has been named Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor and promoted to full professor at SILS.

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Convert a Java Web Application (a WAR file) to a Desktop App

Building a new software tool as web application is a great way to let lots of people have access to your creation without requiring …

Search UNC Library Bookmarklet

This post is to share a bookmarklet that I created to help ease access to articles behind publisher paywalls. If you try to access an …

Election Maps: Representing Area and Population

Maps of election results are a staple in the US during campaign season. They appear in countless newspaper articles, TV news stories, …

A Tutorial on D3.js Joins

While there are a variety of Javascript libraries available for creating visualizations, the most widely used is D3.js. D3 stands for …

A Role for Visualization in Understanding Risk

Risk is a difficult concept, in part because of the many ways it is measured. Interpreting specific numbers can be unintuitive even for …