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This paper is a call to action for research and discussion on data visualization education. As visualization evolves and spreads through our professional and personal lives, we need to understand how to support and empower a broad and…

Dirty data and deceptive design practices can undermine, invert, or invalidate the purported messages of charts and graphs. These failures can arise silently: a conclusion derived from a particular visualization may look plausible unless…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Andrew McNutt , Gordon Kindlmann , Michael Correll

Significant research has provided robust task and evaluation languages for the analysis of exploratory visualizations. Unfortunately, these taxonomies fail when applied to communicative visualizations. Instead, designers often resort to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Eytan Adar , Elsie Lee

Visualization for explainable and trustworthy machine learning remains one of the most important and heavily researched fields within information visualization and visual analytics with various application domains, such as medicine,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Kostiantyn Kucher , Andreas Kerren

The literature describes many visualization techniques for different types of data, tasks, and application contexts, and new techniques are proposed on a regular basis. Visualization surveys try to capture the immense space of techniques…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Abdulhaq Adetunji Salako , Christian Tominski

Preventing the spread of misinformation is challenging. The detection of misleading content presents a significant hurdle due to its extreme linguistic and domain variability. Content-based models have managed to identify deceptive language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Flavio Merenda , José Manuel Gómez-Pérez

Whilst fact verification has attracted substantial interest in the natural language processing community, verifying misinforming statements against data visualizations such as charts has so far been overlooked. Charts are commonly used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Mubashara Akhtar , Nikesh Subedi , Vivek Gupta , Sahar Tahmasebi , Oana Cocarascu , Elena Simperl

Complex, high-dimensional data is used in a wide range of domains to explore problems and make decisions. Analysis of high-dimensional data, however, is vulnerable to the hidden influence of confounding variables, especially as users apply…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Smiti Kaul , David Borland , Nan Cao , David Gotz

Traditional approaches to data visualization have often focused on comparing different subsets of data, and this is reflected in the many techniques developed and evaluated over the years for visual comparison. Similarly, common workflows…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-27 David Borland , Arran Zeyu Wang , David Gotz

Since 2016, the amount of academic research with the keyword "misinformation" has more than doubled [2]. This research often focuses on article headlines shown in artificial testing environments, yet misinformation largely spreads through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Emily Saltz , Claire Leibowicz , Claire Wardle

Understanding and evaluating uncertainty play a key role in decision-making. When a viewer studies a visualization that demands inference, it is necessary that uncertainty is portrayed in it. This paper showcases the importance of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Krisha Mehta

Scientific knowledge develops through cumulative discoveries that build on, contradict, contextualize, or correct prior findings. Scientists and journalists often communicate these incremental findings to lay people through visualizations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Prateek Mantri , Hariharan Subramonyam , Audrey L. Michal , Cindy Xiong

Many visual representations, such as volume-rendered images and metro maps, feature a noticeable amount of information loss. At a glance, there seem to be numerous opportunities for viewers to misinterpret the data being visualized, hence…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Min Chen , Alfie Abdul-Rahman , Deborah Silver , Mateu Sbert

Climate disinformation has become a major challenge in today digital world, especially with the rise of misleading images and videos shared widely on social media. These false claims are often convincing and difficult to detect, which can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Marzieh Adeli Shamsabad , Hamed Ghodrati

Set visualization facilitates the exploration and analysis of set-type data. However, how sets should be visualized when the data is uncertain is still an open research challenge. To address the problem of depicting uncertainty in set…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Christian Tominski , Michael Behrisch , Susanne Bleisch , Sara Irina Fabrikant , Eva Mayr , Silvia Miksch , Helen Purchase

Data visualizations are powerful tools for communicating patterns in quantitative data. Yet understanding any data visualization is no small feat -- succeeding requires jointly making sense of visual, numerical, and linguistic inputs…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Arnav Verma , Kushin Mukherjee , Christopher Potts , Elisa Kreiss , Judith E. Fan

Information Visualization techniques are built on a context with many factors related to both vision and cognition, making it difficult to draw a clear picture of how data visually turns into comprehension. In the intent of promoting a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Jose Rodrigues-Jr , Luciana Zaina , Maria Oliveira , Bruno Brandoli , Agma Traina

In contemporary information ecologies saturated with misinformation, disinformation, and a distrust of science itself, public data communication faces significant hurdles. Although visualization research has broadened criteria for effective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Michelle Morgenstern , Amy Rae Fox , Graham M. Jones , Arvind Satyanarayan

Understanding a visualization is a multi-level process. A reader must extract and extrapolate from numeric facts, understand how those facts apply to both the context of the data and other potential contexts, and draw or evaluate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alyxander Burns , Cindy Xiong , Steven Franconeri , Alberto Cairo , Narges Mahyar

As online news increasingly include data journalism, there is a corresponding increase in the incorporation of visualization in article thumbnail images. However, little research exists on the design rationale for visualization thumbnails,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hwiyeon Kim , Joohee Kim , Yunha Han , Hwajung Hong , Oh-Sang Kwon , Young-Woo Park , Niklas Elmqvist , Sungahn Ko , Bum Chul Kwon