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<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span class="il">IEEE</span> <span class="il">VIS</span> <span class="il">2015</span></strong>: </span><a href="http://ieeevis.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-family: Arial;">http://ieeevis.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1088914261" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">October 25-30 <span class="il">2015</span></span></span>, Chicago, Illinois, USA. </span></p><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Follow us on Twitter: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ieeevis" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); 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font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">http://visualdatascience.org</a><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">CALL FOR POSTERS</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">QUICK FACTS</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Poster Submission Deadline: August 15, 2015 5:00pm PST</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Required: 250-word abstract plus one image.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Submit: </span></span><a href="https://precisionconference.com/~vds15/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">https://precisionconference.</span><wbr></wbr></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://precisionconference.com/~vds15/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">com/~vds15/</a><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">VISION</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Transformations in many fields are enabled by rapid advances in our ability to</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">acquire and generate data. The bottleneck to discovery is now our ability to analyze</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">and make sense of heterogeneous, noisy, and often massive datasets. Extracting</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">knowledge from this abundance of data lies at the heart of 21st century discovery.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">We truly are at the dawn of a revolutionary new era. Data science is the practice of deriving insight from data, at the intersection of the disciplines of statistical methodology, computer science, and one or more traditional scholarly fields.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Visualization is an integral part of data science, and essential to enable sophisticated analysis of data. The first Symposium on Visualization in Data Science (VDS) at IEEE VIS 2015 will bring together domain scientists and methods researchers.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">POSTERS</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">We solicit posters to engage the community in discussion on topics related to visualization in data science. You must present a corresponding poster during the designated poster session, and are encouraged to incorporate a demo or video into your presentation. You also have the opportunity to give a brief oral preview during a plenary ‘fast forward’ session. We encourage submission of work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues, and visualization challenges relevant to data science.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">REVIEW PROCESS</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Poster submissions will be reviewed for relevance and interest to the Data Science community by the Program Chairs.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">SUBMISSION AND FORMATTING GUIDELINES</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Poster submissions consist of a **250-word textual abstract and a supporting image**. Optionally, you can also submit a link to a short video or other supplementary material such as software.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">To submit a poster please use the Precision Conference System (</span></span><a href="https://precisionconference.com/~vds15/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">https://precisionconference.</span><wbr></wbr></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://precisionconference.com/~vds15/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">com/~vds15/</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">).</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">After logging in go to “new submissions” and select “Submit to Posters” for VDS 2015.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Poster Submission Deadline: August 15, 2015 5:00pm PST</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Author Notification: </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1088914255" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 4, 2015</span></span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Claudio Silva, New York University</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">PROGRAM CHAIRS</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Alexander Lex, University of Utah</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br type="_moz" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;">========================</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Digital Compass</span></strong></span></p><p><a href="http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/digital-compass"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font color="#222222"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">http://ieeevis.org/year/2015/info/overview-amp-topics/digital-compass</span></font></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />IEEE VIS 2015 is proud to offer our attendees activities to socialize and meet fellow VIS researchers through the <b>Digital Compass</b> events. One of our goals in organizing the Compass activities at the main IEEE VIS conference is to support the next generation of visualization researchers by helping connect beginning and advanced researchers from the scientific visualization, information visualization and visual analytics communities.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The Compass activities are open to all registered IEEE VIS participants. The activities are organized by the IEEE VIS Compass Chairs.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" />CONTACT<br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" />For more information contact IEEE VIS 2014 Compass Chairs:<br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" />Alex Endert, Georgia Tech<br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" />Daniel Best, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory<br style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;" />Mohammad Ghoniem, Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann</span></p><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Email: </span><a href="mailto:compass@ieeevis.org" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-family: Arial;">compass@ieeevis.org</span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br type="_moz" /></span></span></p><p> </p><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Best regards,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> -- Jian</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-size: small;">------------------------------</span><wbr></wbr><span style="font-size: small;">------------------------------</span><wbr></wbr><span style="font-size: small;">---</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jian Chen, PhD, Assistant Prof.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="font-size: small;">CSEE, University of Maryland Baltimore County</span></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><a href="http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen/index.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~</span><wbr></wbr><span style="font-size: small;">jichen/index.html</span></a></div><p> </p><BR><hr />Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/</HTML>