Nearly a decade after it began, the HDC Lab is no longer active. These pages are archival and will not be updated regularly.


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2022

Z. Zhao, P. Xu, C. Scheidegger, L. Ren. Human-in-the-loop Extraction of Interpretable Concepts in Deep Learning Models. IEEE TVCG, to appear (Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2021). PDF HTML

2021

S. Devkota, P. Aschwanden, A. Kunen, M. Legendre, and K. E. Isaacs. CcNav: Understanding Compiler Optimizations in Binary Code. IEEE TVCG, to appear (Proceedings of IEEE VAST 2020). PDF

A. Bigelow, K. Williams, and K. E. Isaacs. Guidelines for Pursuing and Revealing Latent Data Abstractions. IEEE TVCG, to appear (Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2020). PDF

L. Battle, C. Scheidegger. A Structured Review of Data Management Technology for Interactive Visualization and Analysis. IEEE TVCG, to appear (Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2020). PDF

2020

I. Elizabeth Kumar, S. Venkatasubramanian, C. Scheidegger, S. Friedler Problems with Shapley-value-based explanations as feature importance measures. International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020. PDF HTML

Steven R Brandt, A. Bigelow, Sayef Azad Sakin, K. Williams, K. E. Isaacs, Kevin A Huck, Rod Tohid, Bibek Wagle, Shahrzad Shirzad, Hartmut Kaiser. JetLag: An Interactive, Asynchronous Array Computing Environment. To appear In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, pp. 8–12. 2020. PDF

K. Jiang, and M. Berger, and J. A. Levine. Visualization of Unsteady Flow Using Heat Kernel Signatures. Proceedings of Pacific Vis, 2020. PDF

Ashley Suh, Mustafa Hajij, Bei Wang, Carlos Scheidegger, Paul Rosen. Persistent Homology Guided Force-Directed Graph Layouts. IEEE TVCG, 26(1):697–706, 2020 (Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2019). PDF

K. Williams, A. Bigelow, and K. E. Isaacs. Visualizing a Moving Target: A Design Study on Task Parallel Programs in the Presence of Evolving Data and Concerns. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2019). PDF

A. Bigelow, C. Nobre, M. Meyer and A. Lex. Origraph: Interactive Network Wrangling. To appear at IEEE VAST 2019. PDF Tool Video

A. Jallepalli, J. A. Levine, R. M. Kirby. The Effect of Data Transformations on Scalar Field Topological Analysis of High-Order FEM Solutions. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of SciVis 2019). PDF

2019

Benjamin Fish, Ashkan Bashardoust, danah boyd, Sorelle Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Gaps in Information Access in Social Networks. The World Wide Web Conference (now called The WebConf), 480–490, 2019. PDF

Mohsen Abbasi, Sorelle Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Fairness in representation: quantifying stereotyping as a representational harm. Proceedings of the 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 801–809, 2019. PDF

Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Sonam Choudhary, Evan P. Hamilton, Derek Roth. A Comparative Study of Fairness-Enhancing Interventions in Machine Learning. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2019. PDF

S. Devkota, A. R. Ahmed, F. De. Luca, K. E. Isaacs, and S. Kobourov. Stress-Plus-X (SPX) Graph Layout.
Proceedings of 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD), 2019.
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F. De Luca, Md. I. Hossain, S. Kobourov, A. Lubiw, and D. Mondal. Recognition and drawing of stick graphs.
Journal on Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), 2019.
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M. A. Bekos, F. De Luca, W. Didimo, T. Mchedlidze, M. Nöllenburg, A. Symvonis, and I. Tollis. Planar drawings of fixed-mobile bigraphs.
Journal on Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), 2019.
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F. De Luca, Md. I. Hossain, and S. Kobourov. Symmetry Detection and Classification in Drawings of Graphs.
Proceedings of 27th Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), 2019.
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K. E. Isaacs and T. Gamblin. Preserving Command Line Workflow for a Package Management System using ASCII DAG Visualization. IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2019. PDF

J. Crum, J. A. Levine, and A. Gillette. Extending discrete exterior calculus to a fractional derivative. Computer-Aided Design (Special Issue of Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling). PDF

B. Lee, K. E. Isaacs, D. A. Szafir, G. E. Marai, C. Turkay, M. Tory, S. Carpendale, and A. Endert. Broadening Intellectual Diversity in Visualization Research Papers. Computer Graphics & Applications, Visualization Viewpoints, July 2019. PDF

M. Berger, J. Li, and J. A. Levine. A Generative Model for Volume Rendering. IEEE TVCG 25(4), April 2019. github. PDF

M. Correll, M. Li, G. Kindlmann, C. Scheidegger. Looks Good to Me: Visualizations as Sanity Checks. To appear in IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2018). PDF

R. Faust, D. Glickenstein, C. Scheidegger. DimReader: Axis lines that explain non-linear projections. To appear in IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of InfoVis 2018). PDF

2018

Mustafa Hajij, Bei Wang, Carlos Scheidegger, Paul Rosen. Visual Detection of Structural Changes in Time-Varying Graphs Using Persistent Homology. Proceedings of Pacific Vis, 2018. PDF

Lin Yan, Yaodong Zhao, Paul Rosen, Carlos Scheidegger, Bei Wang. Homology-Preserving Dimensionality Reduction via Manifold Landmarking and Tearing. Proceedings of Visual Data Science, 2018. PDF

Jon Stephens, Babak Yadegari, Christian Collberg, Saumya Debray, Carlos Scheidegger Probabilistic Obfuscation Through Covert Channels. Proceedings of IEEE S&P, 2018. PDF

F. De Luca, S. Kobourov, and H. Purchase. Perception of Symmetries in Drawings of Graphs.
Proceedings of 26th Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), 2018.
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M. Berger, A. Nagesh, J. A. Levine, M. Surdeanu, H. Zhang. Visual Supervision in Bootstrapped Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018).
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R. Tohid, Bibek Wagle, Shahrzad Shirzad, Patrick Diehl, Adrian Serio, Alireza Kheirkhahan, Parsa Amini, Katy Williams, Kate Isaacs, Kevin Huck, Steven Brandt, and Hartmut Kaiser. Asynchronous Execution of Python Code on Task-Based Runtime Systems. Proceedings of the Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware, November 2018. PDF

S. Devkota and K. E. Isaacs. CFGExplorer: Designing a Visual Control Flow Analytics System around Basic Program Analysis Operations. Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of EuroVis). July 2018. PDF

R. Burd, K. Espy, I. Hossain, S. Kobourov, N. Merchant, H. Purchase, GRAM: Global Research Activity Map. 12th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), 2018. PDF

U. Soni, Y. Lu, B. Hansen, H. Purchase, S. Kobourov, R. Maciejewski, The Perception of Graph Properties in Graph Layouts. Computer Graphics Forum, 2018. (A preliminary version appeared in the 20th IEEE Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EUROVIS), 2018.) PDF

Reyan Ahmed, Patrizio Angelini, Faryad Darabi Sahneh, Alon Efrat, David Glickenstein, Martin Gronemann, Niklas Heinsohn, Stephen G. Kobourov, Richard Spence, Joseph Watkins, and Alexander Wolff. Multi-level steiner trees. arXiv:1804.02627 (Accepted in 17th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA) 2018. ) PDF

Helen Purchase, Katherine Isaacs, Thomas Bueti, Ben Hastings, Aadam Kassan, Allen Kim, and Steffan van Hoesen. A Classification of Infographics. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, June 2018. PDF

Danielle Ensign, Sorelle A. Friedler, Scott Neville, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Runaway Feedback Loops in Predictive Policing. Published at FAT* 2018. PDF

S. Nusrat, J. Alam, S. Kobourov. Evaluating Cartogram Effectivenesss. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, 2018. PDF

Ahmed A.R., Rahman M.S., S. Kobourov. (2018) Online Facility Assignment. In: Rahman M., Sung WK., Uehara R. (eds) WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation. WALCOM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10755. Springer, Cham. PDF

J. Tierny, G. Favelier, J. A. Levine, C. Gueunet, and M. Michaux. The Topology ToolKit. IEEE TVCG (Proceedings of SciVis 2017) 24(1), January 2018. project. PDF

2017

Michelle Mills Strout, Saumya Debray, Katherine E. Isaacs, Barbara Kreaseck, Julio Cárdenas-Rodríguez, Bonnie Hurwitz, Kat Volk, Sam Badger, Jesse Bartels, Ian Bertolacci, Sabin Devkota, Anthony Encinas, Ben Gaska, Brandon Neth, Theodore Sackos, Jon Stephens, Sarah Willer, and Babek Yadergari. Language-Agnostic Optimization and Parallelization for Interpreted Languages. In Proceedings of the 30th Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), October 2017. PDF

M. Berger and J. A. Levine. Visualizing Time-Varying Particle Flows with Diffusion Geometry. arXiv:1708.03686 PDF

Asher Haug-Baltzell, Sean A. Stephens, Sean Davey, Carlos E. Scheidegger, Eric Lyons. SynMap2 and SynMap3D: web-based whole-genome synteny browsers. Published at Bioinformatics, Volume 33, Issue 14, 15 July 2017. PDF

Matthew Berger, Katherine McDonough and Lee M. Seversky. cite2vec: Citation-Driven Document Exploration via Word Embeddings. Presented at InfoVis 2016, published at IEEE TVCG 23(1), 691-700. PDF

P. Kindermann, S. Kobourov, M. Loeffler, M. Noellenburg, A. Schulz and B. Vogtenhuber. Lombardi Drawings of Knots and Links. 25th Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), 2017. PDF

P. Simonetto, D. Archambault and S. Kobourov. Drawing Dynamic Graphs Without Timeslices. 25th Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), 2017. PDF

M. Okoe, R. Jianu and S. Kobourov. Revisited Experimental Comparison of Node-Link and Matrix Representations. 25th Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), 2017. Best paper award. PDF

P. Angelini, S. Chaplick, F. De Luca, J. Fiala, J. Hancl, N. Heinsohn, M. Kaufmann, S. Kobourov, J. Kratochvil and P. Valtr. On Vertex- and Empty-Ply Proximity Drawings. 25th Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD),

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H. Kruiger, P. Rauber, R. Martins, A. Kerren, S. Kobourov, and A. Telea. Graph Layouts by t-SNE. Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 36, no. 3, 2017. (A preliminary version appeared in the 19th IEEE Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EUROVIS), 2017.) PDF

E. Welch and S. Kobourov. Measuring Symmetry in Drawings of Graphs. Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 36, no. 3, 2017. (A preliminary version appeared in the 19th IEEE Eurographics Conference on Visualization(EUROVIS), 2017.) PDF

Marianne Procopio, Carlos Scheidegger, Eugene Wu, and Remco Chang. Load-n-Go: Fast Approximate Join Visualizations That Improve Over Time. Short paper, presented at DSIA 2017. PDF

Sabrina Nusrat, Md. Jawaherul Alam, Carlos Scheidegger, Stephen Kobourov. Cartogram Visualization for Bivariate Geo-Statistical Data. Accepted to IEEE TVCG, to appear. PDF

Yong Wang, Daniel Archambault, Carlos Scheidegger, and Huamin Qu. A Vector Field Design Approach to Animated Transitions. Accepted to IEEE TVCG, to appear. PDF

2016

S. Nusrat and S. G. Kobourov. The State of the Art in Cartograms. Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 35 Issue 3, June 2016 Pages 619-642 2016. (A preliminary version appeared in the 18th IEEE Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EUROVIS), 2017) PDF

P. Angelini, M. Bekos, T. Bruckdorfer, J. Hancl, M. Kaufmann, S. Kobourov, J. Kratochvil, A. Symvonis, and P. Valtr. Low Ply Drawings of Trees. 24th Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD), p. 236-248, 2016. PDF

Philip Adler, Casey Falk, Sorelle A. Friedler, Gabriel Rybeck, Carlos Scheidegger, Brandon Smith, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Auditing Black-Box Models for Indirect Influence. IEEE ICDM 2016. PDF

Zhe Wang, Nivan Ferreira, Youhao Wei, Aarthy Bhaskar, Carlos Scheidegger. Gaussian Cubes: Real-Time Modeling for Visual Exploration of Large Multidimensional Datasets. Presented at InfoVis 2016, published at IEEE TVCG 23(1)681-690, 2017. PDF

Cicero Pahins, Sean S. Stephens, Carlos Scheidegger, Joao Comba. Hashedcubes: Simple, Low Memory, Real-Time Visual Exploration of Big Data. Presented at InfoVis 2016, published at IEEE TVCG 23(1)671-680, 2017. PDF

Bahador Saket, Carlos Scheidegger, and Stephen G. Kobourov. Comparing Node-Link and Node-Link-Group Visualizations From An Enjoyment Perspective. EuroVis 2016. PDF

2015

Paolo Simonetto, Daniel Archambault, Carlos Scheidegger. A Simple Approach for Boundary Improvement of Euler Diagrams. presented at InfoVis 2015, published at IEEE TVCG 22(1)678–687, 2016. PDF

Gordon Woodhull, Simon Urbanek, Stephen North, Carlos Scheidegger. Collaborative Visual Analysis on the Web with RCloud. IEEE VAST 2015. PDF

Michael Feldman, Sorelle Friedler, John Moeller, Carlos Scheidegger, Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Certifying and Removing Disparate Impact. ACM KDD 2015. PDF, arxiv

Bahador Saket, Carlos Scheidegger, and Stephen G. Kobourov. Towards Understanding Enjoyment and Flow in Information Visualization. EuroVis 2015 (short paper). PDF

Bahador Saket, Carlos Scheidegger, Stephen G. Kobourov, and Katy Börner. Map-based Visualizations Increase Recall Accuracy of Data. Eurovis 2015. PDF, supplemental material, data

2014

Gordon Kindlmann and Carlos Scheidegger. An Algebraic Process for Visualization Design. TVCG 2014, honorable mention for best paper award at InfoVis 2014. PDF