Lane Harrison
@laneh.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Computer Science at WPI— we study data visualization
(would watch a 30-minute news segment on this sort of analysis...)
The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
(would watch a 30-minute news segment on this sort of analysis...)
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Find out what happens when “A Priest, a Rabbi, and an Atheist Walk Into an Error Bar 🍸”. Join @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy & @laneh.bsky.social for their religious meditations on uncertainty visualization at alt.VIS, Sunday 9 AM - 12:30 PM!
#ieeevis #uncertaintyvis
arxiv.org/abs/2509.08213
#ieeevis #uncertaintyvis
arxiv.org/abs/2509.08213
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Find out what happens when “A Priest, a Rabbi, and an Atheist Walk Into an Error Bar 🍸”. Join @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy & @laneh.bsky.social for their religious meditations on uncertainty visualization at alt.VIS, Sunday 9 AM - 12:30 PM!
#ieeevis #uncertaintyvis
arxiv.org/abs/2509.08213
#ieeevis #uncertaintyvis
arxiv.org/abs/2509.08213
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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)
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October 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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)
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here's a preprint of the unhinged paper i wrote with @lane
we stop just short of saying that the unthinking use of frequentist statistics puts your very soul at hazard
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08213
we stop just short of saying that the unthinking use of frequentist statistics puts your very soul at hazard
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08213
September 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
here's a preprint of the unhinged paper i wrote with @lane
we stop just short of saying that the unthinking use of frequentist statistics puts your very soul at hazard
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08213
we stop just short of saying that the unthinking use of frequentist statistics puts your very soul at hazard
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08213
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The reVISit team will be hosting an open hackathon at TU Graz in Austria, immediately after IEEE VIS from Monday November 10 to Wednesday November 13. Anyone interested in contributing to reVISit is invited to participate!
September 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The reVISit team will be hosting an open hackathon at TU Graz in Austria, immediately after IEEE VIS from Monday November 10 to Wednesday November 13. Anyone interested in contributing to reVISit is invited to participate!
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spent a chunk of today making biblically accurate error bars
July 31, 2025 at 11:44 PM
spent a chunk of today making biblically accurate error bars
Super love seeing regional datavis events making a comeback (and happy to be in town!) ->
The first-ever meeting of #VIS-SEA is underway! (VIS South EAst)
July 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Super love seeing regional datavis events making a comeback (and happy to be in town!) ->
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Going to #CHI2025 in Japan? Interested in running user studies?
Sign up for our virtual CHI 2025 course that teaches you how to use reVISit, a new, open-source user study tool reducing the tedium of study design. Come learn through some practical examples.
cvent.me/g5mx2w
revisit.dev
Sign up for our virtual CHI 2025 course that teaches you how to use reVISit, a new, open-source user study tool reducing the tedium of study design. Come learn through some practical examples.
cvent.me/g5mx2w
revisit.dev
April 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Going to #CHI2025 in Japan? Interested in running user studies?
Sign up for our virtual CHI 2025 course that teaches you how to use reVISit, a new, open-source user study tool reducing the tedium of study design. Come learn through some practical examples.
cvent.me/g5mx2w
revisit.dev
Sign up for our virtual CHI 2025 course that teaches you how to use reVISit, a new, open-source user study tool reducing the tedium of study design. Come learn through some practical examples.
cvent.me/g5mx2w
revisit.dev
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Tactile charts are an important tool for conveying data to blind and low vision people via embossed paper. However, tactile charts require high levels of time and expertise to design.
Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen
news.mit.edu/2025/making-...
Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen
news.mit.edu/2025/making-...
A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers
Designed to help blind and low-vision readers understand graphics, the “Tactile Vega-Lite” system from MIT CSAIL converts data into a standard visual graph and a tactile chart. Accessibility standards...
news.mit.edu
March 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Tactile charts are an important tool for conveying data to blind and low vision people via embossed paper. However, tactile charts require high levels of time and expertise to design.
Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen
news.mit.edu/2025/making-...
Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen
news.mit.edu/2025/making-...
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behold the CONNECTED SPLATTERPIE
kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair
kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair
March 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
behold the CONNECTED SPLATTERPIE
kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair
kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair
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1) Cool VIS study, 2) Help our replication effort! ->
How can we use black-and-white patterns in visualization? If you have visualization design experience, we’d love your input! We’re running a short study (less than 20 minutes) where you’ll experiment with designing patterns for a chart.
Please participate here revisit.dev/replication-...
Thank you!
Please participate here revisit.dev/replication-...
Thank you!
March 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
1) Cool VIS study, 2) Help our replication effort! ->
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February 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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"…there’s one nut we have not been able to crack: anchoring bespoke data visualization as a full fledged profession in corporate settings."
Re-reading this article from 2017 (medium.com/visualizing-...), I wonder — where are we at 8 years on?
Re-reading this article from 2017 (medium.com/visualizing-...), I wonder — where are we at 8 years on?
There be dragons: dataviz in the industry
I started being serious about data visualization around 2005, when the field was still pretty niche and people like Martin Wattenberg, Ben…
medium.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"…there’s one nut we have not been able to crack: anchoring bespoke data visualization as a full fledged profession in corporate settings."
Re-reading this article from 2017 (medium.com/visualizing-...), I wonder — where are we at 8 years on?
Re-reading this article from 2017 (medium.com/visualizing-...), I wonder — where are we at 8 years on?
Slightly annoying when a paper describing an experiment doesn't include a screenshot of the actual task participants performed.
(I wrote the paper in question 🫠...)
(I wrote the paper in question 🫠...)
February 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Slightly annoying when a paper describing an experiment doesn't include a screenshot of the actual task participants performed.
(I wrote the paper in question 🫠...)
(I wrote the paper in question 🫠...)
Cool possibilities for interaction studies ->
reVISit 2.0 Highlight: reVISit now supports Vega and Vega-Lite stimuli. You have the freedom to plug in Vega JSON configurations inline, or as a file. You can leverage interaction and reVISit's provenance tracking and interaction replay feature as well, with no extra effort. revisit.dev #datavis
February 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Cool possibilities for interaction studies ->
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This ggplot chart was generated without any theming support, *at all*.
February 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This ggplot chart was generated without any theming support, *at all*.
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Any freelance Svelte/data visualization developers among my followers? Looking for someone with some availability, starting in a couple of months
February 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Any freelance Svelte/data visualization developers among my followers? Looking for someone with some availability, starting in a couple of months
ReVISit 2.0 (revisit.dev) reached several exciting milestones recently:
📁 You can now define an entire experiment in a single file— from trial data, stimuli (visualizations and interactions, thanks to Vega-Altair), study blocks/sequences and randomization, questionnaires, etc.
📁 You can now define an entire experiment in a single file— from trial data, stimuli (visualizations and interactions, thanks to Vega-Altair), study blocks/sequences and randomization, questionnaires, etc.
January 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
ReVISit 2.0 (revisit.dev) reached several exciting milestones recently:
📁 You can now define an entire experiment in a single file— from trial data, stimuli (visualizations and interactions, thanks to Vega-Altair), study blocks/sequences and randomization, questionnaires, etc.
📁 You can now define an entire experiment in a single file— from trial data, stimuli (visualizations and interactions, thanks to Vega-Altair), study blocks/sequences and randomization, questionnaires, etc.
Crowdsourced Think-aloud Studies w/ full interaction provenance+rehydration, auto voice transcription, and correlation between timelines.
That plus a pile of new features and capabilities in the reVISit 2.0 release.
Check it out & let us know what you think!
That plus a pile of new features and capabilities in the reVISit 2.0 release.
Check it out & let us know what you think!
We’re released reVISit 2.0, the latest version of our open user study platform! There are a LOT of awesome new things in this release that will not only make it easier to run your user study for #ieeevis, but give you new analysis capabilities. #datavis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjP3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjP3...
Replay with provenance in reVISit
YouTube video by Visualization Design Lab
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Crowdsourced Think-aloud Studies w/ full interaction provenance+rehydration, auto voice transcription, and correlation between timelines.
That plus a pile of new features and capabilities in the reVISit 2.0 release.
Check it out & let us know what you think!
That plus a pile of new features and capabilities in the reVISit 2.0 release.
Check it out & let us know what you think!
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More LLM reflections
I think a useful model is "everything that in-house counsel is not"
In-house counsel doesn't know how to say yes to you; they're entirely made of blood-soaked wisdom.
LLMs are excitable improv comedy partners with more memory than wisdom; they don't know how to say no to you.
I think a useful model is "everything that in-house counsel is not"
In-house counsel doesn't know how to say yes to you; they're entirely made of blood-soaked wisdom.
LLMs are excitable improv comedy partners with more memory than wisdom; they don't know how to say no to you.
January 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
More LLM reflections
I think a useful model is "everything that in-house counsel is not"
In-house counsel doesn't know how to say yes to you; they're entirely made of blood-soaked wisdom.
LLMs are excitable improv comedy partners with more memory than wisdom; they don't know how to say no to you.
I think a useful model is "everything that in-house counsel is not"
In-house counsel doesn't know how to say yes to you; they're entirely made of blood-soaked wisdom.
LLMs are excitable improv comedy partners with more memory than wisdom; they don't know how to say no to you.
Still buzzing about the progress the team has made on reVISit over this workshop.
Looking forward to sharing new features for creating & instrumenting vis experiments in our upcoming 2.0 release 👀
Looking forward to sharing new features for creating & instrumenting vis experiments in our upcoming 2.0 release 👀
We introduced folks a Georgia Tech to revisit.dev yesterday in a workshop. Check out our slides to learn more about how to run a user study with revisit! #datavis sci.utah.edu/~vdl/talks/2... sci.utah.edu/~vdl/talks/2...
January 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Still buzzing about the progress the team has made on reVISit over this workshop.
Looking forward to sharing new features for creating & instrumenting vis experiments in our upcoming 2.0 release 👀
Looking forward to sharing new features for creating & instrumenting vis experiments in our upcoming 2.0 release 👀
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does anybody have pointers for good papers/blog posts (other than @tamara process&pitfalls + dsm papers, which we [gratefully!] use already) on "how to teach people to write academic hci/vis research papers that don't suck"?
January 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
does anybody have pointers for good papers/blog posts (other than @tamara process&pitfalls + dsm papers, which we [gratefully!] use already) on "how to teach people to write academic hci/vis research papers that don't suck"?
Send us your vis experiment dreams! 💭
At the reVISit.dev retreat in Atlanta. And we're snowed in! Let us know if there are any features you're missing in reVISit. #userstudies #nsf w. @laneh.bsky.social & team.
January 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Send us your vis experiment dreams! 💭