Jeffrey Heer on the Future of Data Visualization (Video)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1bq0qIKoA]

Baking more “design smarts” into analysis and decision-making tools

Re-think basic user interfaces (tool automatically recommends interesting views)

Show data variation, not design variation (Edward Tufte)

How might our tools spur us to exercise skepticism and consider new questions?

Charting a path forward: From designers to decison makers, from specification to exploration, from design variation to data variation

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