Robert Kosara (eagereyes) has written a fun little tool that posts random text from InfoVis papers at major conferences on twitter at the @InfoVis_Ebooks account.
Each tweet contains a reference to the paper the snippet is from. For InfoVis, VAST, and CHI, these are DOIs rather than links. Links get long and distracting, whereas DOIs are much easier to tune out in a tweet. If you want to see the paper, google the DOI string (keep the “doi:” part). You can also take everything but the “doi:” and append it to http://dx.doi.org/ to be redirected to the paper page. For other sources, I will probably have to use links.
It’s more humor than function, at first glance, but you never know when you might find one worthy of digging deeper. For example, the image above pointed me to an interesting paper on visualizing Ice Hockey Analytics, all because I wondered what “SnapShot” was.
via Meet @InfoVis_Ebooks, Your Source for Random InfoVis Paper Snippets | eagereyes.
