Alark Joshi
@alark.bsky.social
Data Visualization researcher and Professor of Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. Research interests - Visualization Literacy, Mobile Data Visualization. Anti-Racist. Immigrant.
web: https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~apjoshi
web: https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~apjoshi
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YOU, or someone talented you know, could be the next @upshot.nytimes.com fellow.
It’s a paid, full-time, one-year job working on the staff of (dare I say) the coolest desk in the newsroom.
But hurry — applications close on Wednesday, so apply now and/or share with friends!
It’s a paid, full-time, one-year job working on the staff of (dare I say) the coolest desk in the newsroom.
But hurry — applications close on Wednesday, so apply now and/or share with friends!
Fellow, Upshot
New York, NY
job-boards.greenhouse.io
November 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
YOU, or someone talented you know, could be the next @upshot.nytimes.com fellow.
It’s a paid, full-time, one-year job working on the staff of (dare I say) the coolest desk in the newsroom.
But hurry — applications close on Wednesday, so apply now and/or share with friends!
It’s a paid, full-time, one-year job working on the staff of (dare I say) the coolest desk in the newsroom.
But hurry — applications close on Wednesday, so apply now and/or share with friends!
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🗺️ The true size of the world's countries.
👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.
👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🗺️ The true size of the world's countries.
👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.
👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.
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#IEEEVIS - we’re hiring @ City St George’s, University of London.
Does this sound like you?
bit.ly/3WEYlmm
It's a permanent (tenured) position:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC906/l...
Join us @ giCentre & be part of our amazing new ...
Data Visualization Doctoral Training Centre:
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Does this sound like you?
bit.ly/3WEYlmm
It's a permanent (tenured) position:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC906/l...
Join us @ giCentre & be part of our amazing new ...
Data Visualization Doctoral Training Centre:
bit.ly/diverseCDT25...
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
#IEEEVIS - we’re hiring @ City St George’s, University of London.
Does this sound like you?
bit.ly/3WEYlmm
It's a permanent (tenured) position:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC906/l...
Join us @ giCentre & be part of our amazing new ...
Data Visualization Doctoral Training Centre:
bit.ly/diverseCDT25...
Does this sound like you?
bit.ly/3WEYlmm
It's a permanent (tenured) position:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC906/l...
Join us @ giCentre & be part of our amazing new ...
Data Visualization Doctoral Training Centre:
bit.ly/diverseCDT25...
Teaching data visualization? Our research reveals that students need more support with procedural knowledge (tracing polylines, mapping colors to polylines) when learning Parallel Coordinates Plots. The Anderson & Krathwohl taxonomy helped us pinpoint exactly where interventions should focus.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Teaching data visualization? Our research reveals that students need more support with procedural knowledge (tracing polylines, mapping colors to polylines) when learning Parallel Coordinates Plots. The Anderson & Krathwohl taxonomy helped us pinpoint exactly where interventions should focus.
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This graph that the @economist.com is boosting on Facebook is irresponsible.
Titles create powerful frames in the way people interpret data (see: Kong et al 2019, www.hidykong.com/papers/Kong-...). This one tells a story that doesn't exist in the charted data.
Titles create powerful frames in the way people interpret data (see: Kong et al 2019, www.hidykong.com/papers/Kong-...). This one tells a story that doesn't exist in the charted data.
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This graph that the @economist.com is boosting on Facebook is irresponsible.
Titles create powerful frames in the way people interpret data (see: Kong et al 2019, www.hidykong.com/papers/Kong-...). This one tells a story that doesn't exist in the charted data.
Titles create powerful frames in the way people interpret data (see: Kong et al 2019, www.hidykong.com/papers/Kong-...). This one tells a story that doesn't exist in the charted data.
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Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
[Short thread]
[Short thread]
Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within
online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be
''objective'', data visualizations ...
dl.acm.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
[Short thread]
[Short thread]
The CS dept at USF is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor. The job is perfect for an individual who enjoys teaching small classes (25-30), mentoring students on research projects, & working in a truly diverse department in an urban setting. Apply at usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu....
October 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The CS dept at USF is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor. The job is perfect for an individual who enjoys teaching small classes (25-30), mentoring students on research projects, & working in a truly diverse department in an urban setting. Apply at usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu....
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AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.
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This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊
Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.
Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.
October 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊
Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.
Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.
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2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!
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Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students.
We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept ...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!
Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)
Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)
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Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year.
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year
Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.
ourworldindata.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year.
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
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Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content.
www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c...
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September 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content.
www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c...
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www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c...
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Finally, someone is saying this out loud!!! “Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard' How's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future & you have no one that has built up/learned anything?"
finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...
finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...
Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard'
Amazon cloud chief Matt Garman says replacing junior staff with AI is short-sighted, calling it "one of the dumbest things" he's ever heard.
finance.yahoo.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Finally, someone is saying this out loud!!! “Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard' How's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future & you have no one that has built up/learned anything?"
finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...
finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...
This data-driven story - "How F1 has evolved since 1950" from @espn.com Creative Studio uses horizontal, vertical, and even diagonal scrollytelling. The hand-drawn illustrations & visuals are spectacular! 🤩https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1-evolved-1950-where-headed-2026
75 years of innovation: How F1 has evolved since 1950 and where it's headed
To celebrate F1's 75th anniversary, ESPN charts the sport's evolution since 1950 through its most iconic cars, and details where it's headed in 2026.
www.espn.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This data-driven story - "How F1 has evolved since 1950" from @espn.com Creative Studio uses horizontal, vertical, and even diagonal scrollytelling. The hand-drawn illustrations & visuals are spectacular! 🤩https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1-evolved-1950-where-headed-2026
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This is why I get annoyed when people say AI will help identify struggling college students. In every big lecture I teach, at least one or two students fail because they never show up or turn in any work—despite weekly emails from me and TAs. We don’t need AI. We need more humans to support them.
July 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is why I get annoyed when people say AI will help identify struggling college students. In every big lecture I teach, at least one or two students fail because they never show up or turn in any work—despite weekly emails from me and TAs. We don’t need AI. We need more humans to support them.
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📢 The MERCADO Workshop is back at IEEE VIS 📊 - Nov 2 - 7 in Vienna 🇦🇹!
MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics
👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...
⏰ Deadline: Aug 1
MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics
👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...
⏰ Deadline: Aug 1
MERCADO Meetings - VIS '25 Workshop
Our half-day workshop Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO) 2025 will take place in November in Vienna at IEEE VIS 2025. An archival version of our IEEE VIS work...
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June 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
📢 The MERCADO Workshop is back at IEEE VIS 📊 - Nov 2 - 7 in Vienna 🇦🇹!
MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics
👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...
⏰ Deadline: Aug 1
MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics
👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...
⏰ Deadline: Aug 1
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The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
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May 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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46% of 16 to 21 year olds say they would rather a world without internet, and 70% say they feel worse about themselves after using social media.
It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.
It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
46% of 16 to 21 year olds say they would rather a world without internet, and 70% say they feel worse about themselves after using social media.
It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.
It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.
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so many cool accessibility features for your Apple devices were just announced! … accessibility continues to lead in imagining new ways to use your devices, sensors, and machine learning to make the world more accessible
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year
Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Accessibility Nutrition Labels.
www.apple.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
so many cool accessibility features for your Apple devices were just announced! … accessibility continues to lead in imagining new ways to use your devices, sensors, and machine learning to make the world more accessible
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
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If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
May 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
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Hey RSA... get ready for my keynote on why cyber threats aren't just a national issue — they're personal. Catch it tomorrow at 11:35am, Moscone West.
I take this stuff seriously — because it affects all of us.
#Take9 #RSAC #CyberCivilDefense
I take this stuff seriously — because it affects all of us.
#Take9 #RSAC #CyberCivilDefense
April 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Hey RSA... get ready for my keynote on why cyber threats aren't just a national issue — they're personal. Catch it tomorrow at 11:35am, Moscone West.
I take this stuff seriously — because it affects all of us.
#Take9 #RSAC #CyberCivilDefense
I take this stuff seriously — because it affects all of us.
#Take9 #RSAC #CyberCivilDefense
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Come be my neighbor in the SF bureau!
April 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Come be my neighbor in the SF bureau!
While I am disappointed to see classic data-driven stories disappearing due to bit rot, I am thankful to bluesky for being able to see the amazing stories/work of @attilabatorfy.bsky.social, @alexselbyb.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, @patrickstotz.bsky.social, @higsch.com, and more!! 🙏
April 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
While I am disappointed to see classic data-driven stories disappearing due to bit rot, I am thankful to bluesky for being able to see the amazing stories/work of @attilabatorfy.bsky.social, @alexselbyb.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, @patrickstotz.bsky.social, @higsch.com, and more!! 🙏