Alark Joshi

Fantastic write-up about data visualization issues such as clarity, accessibility, using descriptive text, and more with great examples from @ourworldindata.org by Saloni (@scientificdiscovery.dev). Great place to start for data visualization enthusiasts and students. 👏

Happy birthday, Craig!! 🎉 Thank you for supporting our students at the University of San Francisco.

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity – Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group: Postdoctoral Affairs - Northwestern University

🚨 Postdoc opening -- Come work with us at Northwestern! 🚨 This position is to work on evaluating LLMs for sociopolitical value expression: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcement... -- Please share!

Fellow, Upshot New York, NY

YOU, or someone talented you know, could be the next @upshot.nytimes.com fellow.

It’s a paid, full-time, one-year job working on the staff of (dare I say) the coolest desk in the newsroom.

But hurry — applications close on Wednesday, so apply now and/or share with friends!

🗺️ The true size of the world's countries.

👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.

#IEEEVIS - we’re hiring @ City St George’s, University of London.

Does this sound like you?
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It's a permanent (tenured) position:
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Bob Laramee will be presenting our paper "Examining a PCP Intervention through the Anderson and Krathwohl Taxonomy Lens" at the upcoming EduVis workshop at IEEE VIS on Monday, November 3.

More details including the PDF of the paper can be found at www.cs.usfca.edu/~apjoshi/pap...

Teaching data visualization? Our research reveals that students need more support with procedural knowledge (tracing polylines, mapping colors to polylines) when learning Parallel Coordinates Plots. The Anderson & Krathwohl taxonomy helped us pinpoint exactly where interventions should focus.

Graph with title: Older people are addicted to their digital gadgets. But the graph itself only has data about device ownership %

This graph that the @economist.com is boosting on Facebook is irresponsible.

Titles create powerful frames in the way people interpret data (see: Kong et al 2019, www.hidykong.com/papers/Kong-...). This one tells a story that doesn't exist in the charted data.

Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be ''objective'', data visualizations ...

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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The CS dept at USF is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor. The job is perfect for an individual who enjoys teaching small classes (25-30), mentoring students on research projects, & working in a truly diverse department in an urban setting. Apply at usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu....

Home | ReVISit reVISit: Reproducible and Powerful Visualization User Studies

Revisit by @laneh.bsky.social and team is an excellent option. It requires some configuration and setup, but it works beautifully and all your data stays on your server. (revisit.dev)

AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.

What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on. 4 stacked bar charts. showing in short that while heart diseases and cancer constitutes 55% of the causes of death, they receive about 7% of the media coverages. Homicide is under 1% but receives between 42% and 52%. Terrorisme barely registers in the causes of death, but gets between 11% and 18%. The first stacked bar is causes of death in the US in 2023 Heart diseases 29% Cancer 26% Accidents 9.5% Stroke 6.9% Lower respiratory diseases (6.2%) Alzheimer's disease (4.8%) Diabetes (4.0%) Kidney failure (2.4%) Liver disease (2.2%) Suicide (2.1%) COVID-19 (2.1%) Influenza/Pneumonia (1.9%) Drug overdose (1.8%) Homicide (<1%) Terrorism (<0.001%) Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in... New York Times Heart disease (2.8%) Cancer (4.1%) Accidents (9.7%) Suicide (3.8%) COVID-19 (5.3%) Drug overdose (7.5%) Homicide (42%) Terrorism (18%) Washington Post Heart disease (2.9%) Cancer (4.7%) Accidents (5.9%) Suicide (3.3%) COVID-19 (7.9%) Drug overdose (9.5%) Homicide (46%) Terrorism (12%) Fox News Heart disease (2.3%) Cancer (3.8%) Accidents (6.1%) Suicide (4.1%) COVID-19 (6.0%) Drug overdose (9.8%) Homicide (52%) Terrorism (11%) Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US. A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e.g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "flu") least twice. Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025); deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index. Fox News

This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊

Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.

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Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year.

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Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Chinese writing, with last phrase highlight. Something like, 第七条 互联网应用程序分发平台在应用程序上架或者上线审核时,应当要求互联网应用程序服务提供者说明是否提供人工智能生 务。互联网应用程序服务提供者提供人工智能生成合成服务的,互联网应用程序分发平台应当核验其生成合成内容标识相关材料。 第八条 服务提供者应当在用户服务协议中明确说明生成合成内容标识的方法、样式等规范内容,并提示用户仔细阅读并理解相关 理要求。 第九条 用户申请服务提供者提供没有添加显式标识的生成合成内容的,服务提供者可以在通过用户协议明确用户的标识义务和 后,提供不含显式标识的生成合成内容,并依法留存提供对象信息等相关日志不少于六个月。 第十条 用户使用网络信息内容传播服务发布生成合成内容的,应当主动声明并使用服务提供者提供的标识功能进行标识。 任何组织和个人不得恶意删除、篡改、伪造、隐匿本办法规定的生成合成内容标识,不得为他人实施上述恶意行为提供工具或者 得通过不正当标识手段损害他人合法权益。 第十一条 服务提供者开展标识活动的,还应当符合相关法律、行政法规、部门规章和强制性国家标准的要求。 第十二条 服务提供者在履行算法备案、安全评估等手续时,应当按照本办法提供生成合成内容标识相关材料,并加强标识信息共 范打击相关违法犯罪活动提供支持和帮助。 第十三条 违反本办法规定的,由网信、电信、公安和广播电视等有关主管部门依据职责,按照有关法律、行政法规、部门规章的 处理。 第十四条 本办法自2025年9月1日起施行。

🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content.
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Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard' Amazon cloud chief Matt Garman says replacing junior staff with AI is short-sighted, calling it "one of the dumbest things" he's ever heard.

Finally, someone is saying this out loud!!! “Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard' How's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future & you have no one that has built up/learned anything?"

finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...

Additionally, with all the companies hiring Senior Software Engineers, I wonder where the next generation of "Senior" software engineers are going to come from. Maybe with AI, we won't need senior software engineers too in a few years 🙄

75 years of innovation: How F1 has evolved since 1950 and where it's headed To celebrate F1's 75th anniversary, ESPN charts the sport's evolution since 1950 through its most iconic cars, and details where it's headed in 2026.

This data-driven story - "How F1 has evolved since 1950" from @espn.com Creative Studio uses horizontal, vertical, and even diagonal scrollytelling. The hand-drawn illustrations & visuals are spectacular! 🤩https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1-evolved-1950-where-headed-2026

This is why I get annoyed when people say AI will help identify struggling college students. In every big lecture I teach, at least one or two students fail because they never show up or turn in any work—despite weekly emails from me and TAs. We don’t need AI. We need more humans to support them.

He’s doing great! We met recently for dinner cos he used to be a professor at our university.

📢 The MERCADO Workshop is back at IEEE VIS 📊 - Nov 2 - 7 in Vienna 🇦🇹!

MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics

👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...

⏰ Deadline: Aug 1

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

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🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nice charts!! Interactive tooltips for line charts and horizontal layout for bar charts for better legibility of labels. 👍🏽Thank you for the gift link. 📊

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

46% of 16 to 21 year olds say they would rather a world without internet, and 70% say they feel worse about themselves after using social media.

It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.

Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Accessibility Nutrition Labels.

so many cool accessibility features for your Apple devices were just announced! … accessibility continues to lead in imagining new ways to use your devices, sensors, and machine learning to make the world more accessible

www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.