IA Prototypes in Collaborative Decision-Making

Todd Margolis of Qlik has posted an insightful blog on how Immersive Analytics (IA) can enhance collaborative decision-making, which is a key theme for virtual data worlds. He provides five sketches of working prototypes for: 3D Globe Qlik Sense Extension for Google...

Workshop by Edward Tufte

I attended Prof. Edward Tufte (or ET for short) workshop on Presenting Data and Information in Denver on July 31, 2015. Since I attended his workshop decades before, my motivation was to observe what was “new and innovative” in data visualization. To my surprise, I was rewarded with the “old and enduring” in classic ET style.

Is Virtual Reality Useful for Data Visualization?

With a nudge from Data Elixir by my colleague Lon Riesberg, I read the Reddit Ask-Me-Anything marathon by Tamara Munzner, a respected professor, researcher and author in data visualization. She was asked whether virtual reality (VR) is a valuable tool for education...