As people continue to author and share increasing amounts of information in social media,
the opportunity to leverage such information for relationship discovery tasks increases. In …

In the last decade, there has been an exponential growth of asynchronous online
conversations (eg blogs), thanks to the rise of social media. Analyzing and gaining insights …

Data visualization and journalism are deeply connected. From early infographics to recent
data-driven storytelling, visualization has become an integrated part of contemporary …

There is a growing need for methods and tools to illuminate the social contexts of interaction
environments created by the World Wide Web, Usenet newsgroups, email lists, and other …

For an investigative journalist, a large collection of documents obtained from a Freedom of
Information Act request or a leak is both a blessing and a curse: such material may contain …

Social media provides a rich source of data that reflects current trends on a multitude of
topics. The data can be harvested from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other social …

Online data visualizations play an important role in informing public opinion but are often
inaccessible to screen reader users. To address the need for accessible data …

Despite the analytical power of geographic visualization, it remains difficult for users of these
tools to save, re-use, or re-visit what they have discovered. Most current systems are limited …

This paper proposes a framework for easily integrating and controlling information
visualization (infoVis) components within web pages to create powerful interactive “live” …

Current web accessibility guidelines ask visualization designers to support screen readers
via basic non‐visual alternatives like textual descriptions and access to raw data tables. But …