Maureen Stone

@mbostock @pettiross Cool, would love to hear more from you, @pettiross about your goals and how you designed it.l

The new observable10 categorical color scheme by @pettiross features a more saturated vibe to help charts pop. And it looks great in dark mode. 😎

@vsetlur Hope it went well

Looking forward to discussing how language models and data semantics can play a role in supporting visual analysis and functionally aesthetic visualizations.

Had a great time writing this with @dalbersszafir and Colin Ware. So much more to understand about how best to use color for quantitative data.

Had a fantastic time deconstructing and debating our own preconceived notions to reason about where and why *good* rainbows might get a bad wrap with Colin Ware and @stonecolor1.

@_mcnutt_ @uusci @KahlertSoC Congratulations

@Elijah_Meeks Add a minus sign to the right, make it an invisible color (same as background or set alpha to 0). Not all systems are that flexible with their text color but it should work if you can do it.

I know these are both centered but I hate the results. Is there a term for centering without the negative sign (or centering on the decimal point?) and will it be implemented in CSS by end of day?

Announcing two new IEEE Fellows from UBC Computer Science. Read all about the work that got them there: ow.ly/ArXo50M9T9p #UBC #haptics #visualization @tamaramunzner @Karonmaclean @ubcscience @CAIDA_UBC @dfp_ubc @IEEEorg @ieeevis

@brrosenau Nice. Now the biggest challenge with Tableau palettes is that colors that look good large can become less effective, even hard to distinguish when the marks get small (scatter plots, lines). Adding some of those examples into your test image would be helpful.

@nicole_sultanum @vsetlur Congratulations to you both!

@vsetlur Beyond excited & so grateful to work with @vsetlur and join the fantastic team at Tableau Research! Looking forward to exploring all the fun and meaningful ways we can push text vis further!

I am delighted to announce that @nicole_sultanum will be joining Tableau Research! Her special interest in text visualization has a lot of interesting synergies with the work we are doing here, and we look forward to having her on board. #tableau #research

@kbschloss @UWPsych @WIDiscovery Well deserved!

I am deeply grateful to all of my collaborators, students, mentors, friends, family, and the @UWPsych and @WIDiscovery staff who supported me through this process! I appreciate you all!

#SIGGRAPH2022. Livestream of Pat and Ed’s Turing award talk is off the air?

@Birdbassador Which rose garden?

these were nice this weekend imo

@Birdbassador @mountain_goats You found them!

“there’s no need to get the plant that looks like a butt, you’re only thinking about it because you were looking up @mountain_goats lyrics that you misremembered” well,

@MyndexResearch @AT_Fresh_Dev In The Island of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks reports on people with a rare genetic disorder that eliminates all cones. They do have rods, which gives them a low-resolution monochrome vision at low light levels. Dark sunglasses and magnifiers are life changing.

@stonecolor1 @AT_Fresh_Dev Yes, this—the misunderstanding that it's somehow "greyscale", not helped by some CVD tools that use a full-range RGB luminance greyscale and claim it represents achromatopsia or BCM. If interested, I have a BCM simulation, derived/inspired from Brettel: myndex.com/CVD/

@MyndexResearch @AT_Fresh_Dev I don’t use colorblind because it implies grayscale vision to many. I use CVD, (color vision deficiency) which is arguably more open to the ableist criticism. The most accurate descriptions are anomalous trichromat (most cases) dichromat, and those with monochromatic vision.

@AT_Fresh_Dev I consider "color blind" to be ableist, because most forms of color insensitive vision still do see color, just reduced. Only the extremely rare achromatopsia can really be called "color blind" & they are co-morbid with low vision & photophobia. I use "color insensitive" lately.

@Birdbassador But you would say it so eruditely

techcrunch.com/2022/06/08/sal… hey who wants to know what i think about this (you might be able to guess!)

@hankgreen Because displays have lousy, greenish yellows. If you could darken a true yellow, it will eventually flip to brown, but not to olive green

I'm not asking why you can't darken yellow, I'm asking why darkened red is dark red and darkened blue is dark blue, but darkened yellow is fucking olive green.

Ok, honest question, why doesn’t dark yellow exist?

@hankgreen Yellow (or orange) looks brown when it is dark with respect to its background. On a black background, the same color can look yellow. There’s a psychophysics party trick where you can flip some colors back and forth that way…best in a dark room.

@hankgreen You can get a more convincing dark yellow with paint than with a display

@hankgreen Couple of things going on in the responses. On displays, the yellow tends to be greenish, in an absolute sense. We accept it as yellow, but there are much truer yellows in paint, dyes, flowers, etc. This becomes more obvious as you make it darker