[Sigmet-officers] ASIST Panel

[Cassidy Sugimoto]

It might be interested to see if we could get SIG-VIS to co-sponsor
and, perhaps, to run the competition portion of the event. Might want
to contact Diane Neal, Chris Landbeck, or Caroline Whippey about this.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Jason Priem <jp at jasonpriem.org> wrote:
> Great start, Stasa!
>
> One idea that might be fun is to incorporate a hands-on or workshop
> component. I don't think there's be much time for it in the session
> itself, but we could have sort of a little infovis contest with a
> certain dataset. If you introduced it at the beginning of the
> conference and gave folks like 24 hours, you could then show off the
> top ones at the panel, as examples of some good techniques and tools.
> folks could use their laptops, or low-fi paper techniques like we did
> for our ASIST panel poster last year.
>
> Wouldn't be too much extra work. Downsides are that 1) someone's got
> to come up with the dataset and scenario, 2) maybe no one would be
> interested in participating. Whether with this or something else,
> though, it's be great to find a way to incorporate a hands-one
> component if we can.
>
> Also: I'd love to be involved in the panel...have done some
> interactive infovis stuff with js like <http://feedvis.com> and more
> static stuff with R and ggplot like
> <http://jasonpriem.org/self-archived/5uni-poster.png>. could talk
> about theory, emerging tools, or the artistic/humanistic side of
> infovis (used to be an artist yay :)
>
> Would totally cast a vote for Scott...he's a standup guy and very
> engaging (at least one-on-one, never seen him present)
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Stasa Milojevic <smilojev at indiana.edu> wrote:
>> Dear all-
>>
>> I've started working on the ASIS&T panel on Information Visualization.
>> Here are some of the ideas I have:
>>
>> TITLE: Information Visualization State-of-the-Art and Future Directions
>>
>> PROPOSAL:
>> -Information Visualization as a thriving and rapidly expanding area.
>> -A brief history: we've come a long way from graphs, charts and
>> hierarchical trees to interactive maps, graphs, etc.
>> -Information Visualization as a process vs. final product
>> -What is the role of Information Visualization today? Is it a method, a
>> set of techniques used to visually represent data? Is it used for
>> depiction or scientific exploration?
>> -The influence of large data set and powerful tools.
>> -The visualization within and outside metrics community (e.g., in
>> digital humanities, and other fields).
>>
>> FORMAT OF THE PANEL:
>> -Brief introduction to the topic followed by each participant giving a
>> short presentation on what he/she thinks are the current best practices,
>> what are the main challenges, where the participant sees the field
>> moving in the next few years.
>> -Open discussion with the audience.
>>
>> PARTICIPANTS:
>> -I believe we should have a mix of senior and junior scholars. We should
>> also have people who bring somewhat different perspectives.
>>
>> -If you are interested in participating in the panel please let me know.
>> Also, below is a list of some of the names that come to mind as
>> potential participants.
>>
>> -Katy Borner, Loet Leydesdorff, Kevin Boyack, Chaomei Chen, Henry Small,
>> Howard White, Kate McCain, Angela Zoss, Scott Weingart, John Walsh,
>> Yanni Loukissas.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions/comments are welcome. Also, does anyone have proposals
>> for a different panel to be supported by ASIST?
>>
>> Best,
>> Stasa
>>
>>
>>
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> Jason Priem
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> School of Information and Library Science
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto