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IEEE Visualization '96
TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL SESSION
Tuesday, October 29, 8:00 pm (VizLies '96)
How to Lie and Confuse with Visualization
Grand Peninsula Ballroom D
People have lied with statistics and maps for years. Now it's time to look again
into lying and confusing in the field of visualization. Your once-a-year big
chance to do just that, in the open, will be in this special party session on
Tuesday, October 29, 1996 at 8:00 PM (2 nights before Halloween). You are invited
to bring with you visualization lies and confusing articles, yours or others, on
35 mm slides or video (Halloween costumes are optional but recommended). During
this evening, it will be allowed to lie but not to borrow credit, so please do
not forget to mention the producers' names. After the informal presentations and
truthful debates, the audience will choose the biggest (visualization) lie for
1996 (including the best Visualization '96 Halloween costume). When the evening is
over, lying (and costumes) will be outlawed again (for another year). Then, we
will be able to benefit from this teaching of what it takes to produce realistic
and faithful visualizations.
Reservations and advance submissions are now being accepted (c/o Nahum Gershon,
The MITRE Corporation, 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean, VA, 22102-3481). Both
are not required but are strongly recommended. For more information (genuine!),
please contact email: gershon@mitre.org