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IEEE Visualization '97
TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL SESSION - PARTY
Tuesday, October 21, 7:30 pm (VizLies '97)
How to Lie and Confuse with Visualization
People have lied with statistics and maps for years. Now it's time to look again
into lying and confusing in the field of visualization. Your once-a-year big
chance to do just that, in the open, will be in this special party session on
Tuesday, October 21, 1997 at 7:30 PM. You are invited
to bring with you visualization lies and confusing articles, yours or others, on
35 mm slides or video. During
this evening, it will be allowed to lie and confuse, but not to take credit for the work of others *, so please do
not forget to mention the producers' names. After the informal presentations and
truthful debates, the audience will choose the biggest (visualization) lie for
1997. When the evening is
over, lying will be outlawed again (for another year). Quite seriously, we hope that by
presenting common and uncommon errors occurring in the visual presentation of
information, all of us in the visualization community will benefit, or at least
have a good laugh at the expense of others.
Reservations and advance submissions are now being accepted.
Please send them to:
Nahum Gershon,
The MITRE Corporation, 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean, VA, 22102-3481) or
F. David Fracchia,
Simon Fraser University, Computing Science,
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada.
Reservations and advance submissions
are not required but are strongly recommended. For more information (genuine!),
please contact email: gershon@mitre.org or fracchia@cs.sfu.ca
*It is rather allowed to professionally blame those responsible for the lies
and confusion.