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title = "A report from VisWeek 2010",
abstract = "VisWeek 2010 covered the latest visualization and data analysis research and offered an excellent forum for discussing new trends in these fields.",
keywords = "Visualization, conference report, data analysis, visual analytics",
author = "Carlos Scheidegger and Silva, {Cl{\'a}udio T.} and Daniel Weiskopf",
note = "Funding Information: V isWeek (www.visweek.org) is VisWeek History interfaces. VisWeek reflects the rela-the premier scientific event VisWeek began with the IEEE Visu-tionship of the visualization subareas for visualization research, alization Conference in 1990, which by combining the three conferences. bringing together researchers and from the start has played an impor- practitioners from academia, indus-tant role in forming the computer-VisWeek 2010 Overview try, and government. It{\textquoteright}s a great place based visualization field. The seed of VisWeek partly consisted of the paper to exchange ideas relating to visual-the conference{\textquoteright}s development was the tracks for the Vis, InfoVis, and VAST ization, and it offers a wide range of 1987 US National Science Foundation conferences. We{\textquoteright}ll highlight and learning opportunities for novice and report, Visualization in Scientific Com- briefly present a few of those paper experienced attendees alike. puting, which made the case for using contributions later in this report. The Sponsored by the IEEE Computer visualization and triggered many ac-Vis and InfoVis papers are published Society{\textquoteright}s Visualization and Graph-tivities in data visualization from sci-in the flagship visualization journal ics Technical Committee (www.vgtc. ence and engineering. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and org), VisWeek 2010 took place in Oc-Over the years, visualization in Computer Graphics; VAST papers ap-tober 2010 in Salt Lake City, Utah, scientific computing, or scientific vi- pear in the VAST proceedings pub-and had approximately 850 attend-sualization, has been complemented lished by the IEEE Computer Society ees. The general chairs of VisWeek by information visualization and vi- Press. 2010 were Ross Whitaker and Cl{\'a}udio sual analytics, which have recently All three conferences have similar T. Silva (both currently at the Univer-experienced huge growth. Scientific acceptance rates of approximately 26 sity of Utah) and Klaus Mueller (Stony visualization traditionally focuses on to 28 percent: Vis 2010 accepted 49 Brook University). VisWeek serves as representing data with implicit spatial papers out of 185 submissions, InfoVis an umbrella for three conferences: embedding, such as simulated tem-accepted 35 out of 135 submissions, IEEE Visualization (Vis), IEEE perature distribution in 3D space. and VAST accepted 26 out of 94 sub-Information Visualization (InfoVis), Information visualization{\textquoteright}s focus is on missions. All papers were reviewed by and IEEE Visual Analytics Science data without spatial embedding, such members of the international program and Technology (VAST). In addi-as networks of links on the Internet. committees and external reviewers. tion, VisWeek sometimes features Melanie Tory and Torsten M{\"o}ller of-For the journal publications of Vis colocated events; this year, it was the fer more background on spatial and and InfoVis, a two-stage reviewing 2010 Symposium on Software Visual-nonspatial visualization.4 Of course, process required minor revisions of ization (SoftVis). the separation between informa-conditionally accepted papers.",
year = "2011",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1109/MCSE.2011.24",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
pages = "70--77",
journal = "Computing in Science and Engineering",
issn = "1521-9615",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
number = "2",
}