The homepage for Alper Sarikaya, data visualizer. Current and previous projects are detailed.
Here’s an initial data visualization reading (and watching?!) list. As we talk about topics during the reading, this list and the topics will likely grow! To keep track, I’ve added a changelog at the bottom. Table of Contents Why visualization? Data and task abstraction Critique and Re-design Tools for Visualization Graphics and Perception Accessible, augmented, and alternative interfaces Literacy…
Trying to search for help online these days is a real slog. There’s a ton of very obvious LLM-generated content out there that’s hard to parse, is mostly fluff, and sorts things into non-sensical headers and single paragraphs. I wanted to back up some data for a personal project, because I want to continually update the code, but I want some relief valve if I corrupt years of data. The data itself…
xkcd posted an astute comic several days ago, and it made the rounds on Bluesky. I don’t normally check xkcd, and I’ve kinda fallen out of the habit of checking webcomics by directly going to their sites. I’m glad I saw it. If you haven’t, go check it out now . Okay, now that you’re back – this comic does a fantastic job capturing the survivorship process. What’s crazy about it is that so many…
Jen Christiansen asked on Twitter of a tried and true way to get a list of all the people you follow on Twitter . Here’s a quick type-up of how you can do it using the Twitter API, without using the command line! Step 1 — Get API keys Request an (personal) API key . Request a key just for yourself, fill out some basic information, and pick a name for your “tool” (you usually have success with your…
I took a picture of every red light I needed to stop at while biking last weekend.
“How’s it going?” My partner’s response to the titular question has been “Hanging in there!” with a forced smirk. She says it so much to her colleagues at work that she was even gifted a mug with a cat hanging on a clothesline with those words. The reality is there was a lot of tumultuous events that happened in the last half year that has pretty much changed our outlooks on life quite quickly.…
You might have missed it, but the big data visualization research conference happened online at the end of October! IEEE VIS 2021 was held online, virtually, on https://virtual.ieeevis.org . Before you read this recap, you should check out some of the other reviews that have been posted: the Data Visualization Society’s Nightingale journal had a review and the SIGGRAPH blog also had a review . Let…
I wanted to drop a note to explain why I’ve been out several times at seemingly random times the last couple of weeks. My partner was in mid-pregnancy and all the appointments seemed to be going well. Unfortunately, all of a sudden at an appointment they couldn’t find a baby heartbeat, which meant an pretty immediate operation. This was also an quick reversal in emotions as we were preparing to…
There’s been a lot of activity about IEEE VIS in the last month. You should check out some of the other reviews that have been posted: Data Stories had their VIS 2020 review , the PolicyViz podcast talks through some highlights and the Data Visualization Society’s Nightingale journal had a review as well. This summary (in contrast to the others) is more focused toward the interests of an industry…
I’m not sure how we all did it, but we pulled it off! Normally the highlight of the year for academics interested in and studying data visualization and its applications descends on a city for a week to share research progress, build collaborations, and learn from one another. With the COVID-19 crisis, what was supposed to be IEEE VIS 2020 in Salt Lake City eventually needed to be hosted online.…