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enthusiast of things you like, detester of the things you don't like, but not in a mean way so i don't seem off-putting. just generally a solid follow

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janeadams, to random
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vis.social question: All of TVCG should count for the Vis category on CSrankings, no?

https://github.com/emeryberger/CSrankings/issues/7153

It doesn't seem to make sense to add each edition of the journal in piecemeal as people make PRs

2016 discussion: https://github.com/emeryberger/CSrankings/pull/77

Birdbassador,
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@dr_pi @janeadams

It's also confusing not just one:many with TVCG (where a TVCG regular queue paper can
be presented at one of many conferences: https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/tvcg/tvcg-partners-with-conferences, but also VIS is many:one, where work that was in not just TVCG but also CG&A or TOG can end up presented at VIS: https://ieeevis.org/year/2024/info/call-participation/partnerships

Birdbassador, to random
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as we know from portlandia, a decade ago "quirky" gift shops used bird motifs on everything. now, quirky gift shops use mushrooms motifs. to me, this is a sign of the decay of the imperial core. we go from flight/escape to now the notion of waiting out the collapse and then thriving on the decay.

Birdbassador, to random
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@ieeevis
The BELIV workshop is returning this year! The theme this year is "Rethinking Design, Evaluation, and Ethics in Visualization in the Era of Generative AI," but we are always looking for work on research methods in visualization in general.

https://tinyurl.com/beliv2024

Birdbassador, to random
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now that most of the major conferences i submit to have anywhere on earth (AoE) deadlines i think somebody needs to mention that these are "courtesy" deadlines, to give you a few hours of grace so you're not having to wake/stay up at odd hours to turn something in just because you're in an inconvenient time zone. you can work until 6 AM your time or whatever, but you shouldn't have to, and you will regret doing so. maybe not this deadline, but some deadline, and soon.

Birdbassador,
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there are two outcomes:

  1. you burn the midnight oil and the paper still doesn't get in, in which case you've wasted all that effort
  2. you sprint and it /does/ get in, and then you've convinced yourself and your collaborators that that kind of effort is normal/expected/"worth it", in which case good luck ever sticking to a schedule or setting work/life boundaries ever again
Birdbassador, to random
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sheriff ed tom bell, putting down the newspaper and taking off his reading glasses, letting out a deep sigh as he thinks of the bloody vengeful darkness at the heart of the american experience and how, sooner or later, those debts will come due:
"they're saying that a shrimp fried that rice. now how does that make a lick of sense? how do we go to church on sunday and think that the Lord is sitting on His throne when, over in hudspeth county, there's a shrimp going around frying rice?"

Birdbassador,
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@jkohlmann signs and wonders

janeadams, to random
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Paper writing is going well

Birdbassador,
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@janeadams I have been working on the silliest figure I have made in my entire life, I can feel ggplot judging me with each cell run, all while having multiple full sections that just have "TODO" written in them in big purple text

Birdbassador,
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@janeadams @mcnutt @scheidegger

there's (tongue in cheek) data on this! at least for CVPR https://fantasticsid.wdfiles.com/local--files/paper-gestalt/gestalt.pdf

Birdbassador, to random
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Last of my paper explainer posts, this one on whether EDA is doomed (answer: sort of, but not as doomed as you might think):
https://mcorrell.medium.com/exploratory-data-analysis-is-mostly-just-vibes-man-04a3ce6c77c5

Birdbassador, to random
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Here's a blog post about a paper we got accepted into that blows away my previous personal record for "number of direct marx quotes I shoehorned into a computer science venue":

https://mcorrell.medium.com/the-body-politic-a-sociopolitical-look-at-anatomical-visualization-02f5c8f103a8

scheidegger, to random
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@Birdbassador I'm sorry, were you planning on sleeping for the next month? https://twitter.com/SashaGusevPosts/status/1761737059432108477

Birdbassador,
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@scheidegger :psyduck:​ "here's the stuff you should know about data smells and error checking in visual analytics" rapidly increasing in necessary scope from "fun little lecture" to "full university course" to "never mind, we're all just doomed, aren't we"

Birdbassador, to random
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i don't think i've actually ever won an award for anything (my ego-saving rationale is "well, i just don't do the kind of work that wins awards") but apparently i have to care about awards now, so if anybody is in academia and wants to come up with some meaningless awards for me to win that would be nice.

the more impressive sounding the better, but don't actually ask me to have to do anything exemplary, thanks.

Birdbassador, to random
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even if you did manage to track down carmen sandiego, what are you supposed to do if she resists arrest? like she apparently has a vast criminal network and can move thousands of tons of objects without detection, you think she's just going to give herself up because you remembered that the capital of mali is bamako? she is gonna make your next of kin sort carribbean islands by population just to find your body, friend-o.

anyway acab includes a.c.m.e. detective agency

Birdbassador, to random
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academics complain about how tough it is to be interdisciplinary but my friend you are the one who went to grad school to specialize in one subject, then went to a job that evaluates you on how well you teach and research in that one subject, based on input almost exclusively from other people also in that one subject

it's like choosing to live over a mcdonalds, working at mcdonalds, choosing to get paid in mcdonalds gift cards, and then complaining that people eat too much fast food

Birdbassador,
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@scheidegger i'm one or two bad days from putting "lazy dilettante" on my business cards and cutting to the chase

Birdbassador, to random
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tarkovsky's wile e. coyote props up a box with a stick and puts a sign next to it labeled "your innermost desire" pointing to it but is thwarted when the roadrunner merely sits outside of it in total despair, defeated by an unwillingness to come to grips with the objet petit a

Birdbassador, to random
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breaking out the ouija board so i can capture the first "aaaaa"s from kissinger in his new post

Birdbassador, to random
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after all these years i'm still not 100% on what "data science" is. is it just a way to trick people who think they are going to be doing machine learning into downloading excel files like all the rest of us?

Birdbassador,
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@scheidegger i was going to suggest "data science is when computer sciences want to do statistics but also don't want to talk to statisticians, and also want to trick students into thinking ML solves everyday problems" but that seemed too cruel

Birdbassador, to random
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bothers me that my brain immediately goes to "haha it's like silent hill out today or "haha n64 render distance much" or "haha am i in a stephen king novel" some other mediation of my experience through pop culture. gotta return to the simple truths that a) sea witches are real b) they haunt the mists

cfiesler, to random
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It is really weird to read something from a tech company that on its face is about the risks of the technology they're creating, and somehow it sounds like marketing copy. :-\

Birdbassador,
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@scheidegger @cfiesler i am still trying to dig for a pithy way of communicating the sentiment of the form "'tech criticism' has gotten so commodified/manipulated that we should be excited if we see some that /doesn't/ serve big tech in some way" https://mcorrell.medium.com/some-criticisms-of-tech-criticism-138419db41ad

Birdbassador, to random
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the bar with the big guinness toucan mural on the side closed like less than a month before i got here, bad omen

jbigham, to random
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who wants to put together the Top 100 HCI … we construct it to be as amazing as possible, but then just publish it and then run away. if we do this right, we can fund CHI for the next 40 years off the click revenue.

Birdbassador,
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@jbigham i will give a $50 red lobster giftcard to whoever puts me on a published list of top HCI researchers, this is a legally binding promise

Birdbassador,
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@jbigham i do feel a pang in my soul for the i'm sure dozen or so remaining CHI crypto-related submissions grimly thinking sbout how to get over the finish line

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