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Towards a Theory of Bullshit Visualization
Michael Correll
In this unhinged rant, I lay out my suspicion that a lot of visualizations are bullshit: charts that do not have even the common decency to intentionally lie but are totally unconc…
Illegible Semantics: Exploring the Design Space of Metal Logos
Gerrit J. Rijken, Rene Cutura, Frank Heyen +4
The logos of metal bands can be by turns gaudy, uncouth, or nearly illegible. Yet, these logos work: they communicate sophisticated notions of genre and emotional affect. In this p…
Untidy Data: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tables
Lyn Bartram, Michael Correll, Melanie Tory
Working with data in table form is usually considered a preparatory and tedious step in the sensemaking pipeline; a way of getting the data ready for more sophisticated visualizati…
User Ex Machina : Simulation as a Design Probe in Human-in-the-Loop Text Analytics
Anamaria Crisan, Michael Correll
Topic models are widely used analysis techniques for clustering documents and surfacing thematic elements of text corpora. These models remain challenging to optimize and often req…
Vis Ex Machina: An Analysis of Trust in Human versus Algorithmically Generated Visualization Recommendations
Rachael Zehrung, Astha Singhal, Michael Correll +1
More visualization systems are simplifying the data analysis process by automatically suggesting relevant visualizations. However, little work has been done to understand if users…