{"id":263,"date":"2008-10-29T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/vizsec-2008-and-ben-shneidermans-keynote\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:09:02","slug":"vizsec-2008-and-ben-shneidermans-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/vizsec-2008-and-ben-shneidermans-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"VizSec 2008 and Ben Shneiderman&#8217;s Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/image_thumb.png\" title=\"image_thumb.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/image_thumb.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"image_thumb.png\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vizsec.org\/workshop2008\/\">VizSec<\/a> is a fairly academic conference that brings together the fields of security and visualization. The conference had an interesting mix of attendees: 50% came from industry, 30% from academia, and 20% from government. I had the pleasure of being invited to give a talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/davix.secviz.org\" herf=\"http:\/\/davix.secviz.org\">DAVIX<\/a> and also participate on a panel about the state of security visualization in the market place.<br \/>\nThe highlight of the conference was definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.umd.edu\/~ben\/\">Ben Shneiderman&#8217;s<\/a> keynote. I was very pleased with some of the comments that Ben made about the visualization community. First he criticized the same thing that I call the <strong> &#8220;industry &#8211; academia dichotomy&#8221;<\/strong>. In his words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[There is a] lack of applicability of research.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I completely agree and if you have seen me talk about the dichotomy, I outline a number of examples where this becomes very obvious.<br \/>\nThe second quote from Ben that I would like to capture is the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The purpose of viz is insight, not pictures&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visualization is about how to present data. I am not always sure that people understand that.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t prepared to capture what Ben said about <a href=\"http:\/\/secviz.org\/content\/applied-security-visualization\">my book<\/a> (Applied Security Visualization.) He brought his copy that I had sent him. He talked about the book for quite a bit and specifically mentioned all the treemaps that I have used to visualize a number of use cases. I felt very honored that Ben actually looked at the book and had such great things to say about it. The following lunch with Ben was a great pleasure as well, filled with some really interesting visualization discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VizSec is a fairly academic conference that brings together the fields of security and visualization. The conference had an interesting mix of attendees: 50% came from industry, 30% from academia, and 20% from government. I had the pleasure of being invited to give a talk about DAVIX and also participate on a panel about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-log-analysis","category-visualization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}