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"

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

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.