VisWeek V&V

At VisWeek 2011, Robert M. Kirby, Claudio T. Silva, Robert S. Laramee, and William Schroeder participated in a panel entitled "Verification in Visualization: Building a Common Culture"

The slides used during the panel:

• Mike Kirby: File:KirbyVisPanel2011.pdf
• Claudio
• Bob
• Schroeder

The panel was recorded and will be available at http://vgtc.org/ "soon"

Inspired by the discussions at this panel, the following people would like to organize an effort to facilitate V&V at future VisWeek submissions:

• Britta Weber
• Tim Lebo
• (feel free to add your name)

A few of us met for lunch immediately after the panel, and discussed a few points:

• SIGMOD has had something like it for 2 years, so we can borrow their model.
• Reproducibility takes (uncredited) time and effort; producing unreproducible papers is valued by the community.
• A grad student once published make files behind every published image - but stopped when he got a job.
• Publishing your code (without an established system) provides value because people grab it, use it, remember your name, and cite you in their publications.

The following people may provide useful suggestions for how to increase reproducibility within VisWeek publications:

• Claudio T. Silva - knows about SIGMOD's effort.
• "make file" SCI student - because he cared about it enough to make make files.
• Anita de Waard

Related work

• http://www.executablepapers.com/ by Elsevier
• http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2010/04/20/the-mythical-reproducibility-of-science/
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20876290
• http://www.openscience.org/blog/?p=306