papers

Publications (6)

cs.HC2025

NetPanorama: A Declarative Grammar for Network Construction, Transformation, and Visualization

James Scott-Brown, Alexis Pister, Benjamin Bach

This paper introduces NetPanorama, a domain-specific language and declarative grammar for interactive network visualization design that supports multivariate, temporal, and geograp…

cs.HC2026

Designing a Visualization Atlas: Lessons & Reflections from The UK Co-Benefits Atlas for Climate Mitigation

Jinrui Wang, Alexis Pister, Sian Phillips +6

This paper reports on the process of designing the UK Co-Benefits Atlas, which communicates and publicizes data for climate mitigation. Visualization atlases--an emerging type of p…

physics.soc-ph2025

A Stochastic Block Hypergraph model

Alexis Pister, Marc Barthelemy

The stochastic block model is widely used to generate graphs with a community structure, but no simple alternative currently exists for hypergraphs, in which more than two nodes ca…

cs.HC2021

Integrating Prior Knowledge in Mixed Initiative Social Network Clustering

Alexis Pister, Paolo Buono, Jean-Daniel Fekete +2

We propose a new approach -- called PK-clustering -- to help social scientists create meaningful clusters in social networks. Many clustering algorithms exist but most social scien…

cs.HC2024

Does This Have a Particular Meaning? Interactive Pattern Explanation for Network Visualizations

Xinhuan Shu, Alexis Pister, Junxiu Tang +2

This paper presents an interactive technique to explain visual patterns in network visualizations to analysts who do not understand these visualizations and who are learning to rea…

cs.HC2022

Scalability in Visualization

Gaëlle Richer, Alexis Pister, Moataz Abdelaal +3

We introduce a conceptual model for scalability designed for visualization research. With this model, we systematically analyze over 120 visualization publications from 1990-2020 t…