{"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’s Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image_thumb.png\"<\/a>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 DAVIX<\/a> and also participate on a panel about the state of security visualization in the market place.
\nThe highlight of the conference was definitely Ben Shneiderman’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 “industry – academia dichotomy”<\/strong>. In his words:<\/p>\n

“[There is a] lack of applicability of research.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I completely agree and if you have seen me talk about the dichotomy, I outline a number of examples where this becomes very obvious.
\nThe second quote from Ben that I would like to capture is the following:<\/p>\n

“The purpose of viz is insight, not pictures”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Visualization is about how to present data. I am not always sure that people understand that.
\nUnfortunately, I wasn’t prepared to capture what Ben said about 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":"

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