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Jasmine Tan Otto

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Scientific Visualization as a Collaborative Data Infrastructure

Scientific visualization is an active site of infrastructuring with many layers of data and evidential claims. This paper reflects on collaborative Mars geoscience research conducted at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, which produced the PIXLISE spectroscopic analysis platform, through a retrospective analysis of a scientific discovery made by the team using PIXLISE. The history of infrastructuring in scientific visualization is exceedingly rich, which presents an opportunity for archival research. Simultaneously, the field of visualization aspires to become a science of communication, opening the door to future collaborations. Finally, with regard to visualization practitioners, we believe that opportunities for infrastructuring in both science and science communication are actively emerging.

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Fuzzy Linkography: Automatic Graphical Summarization of Creative Activity Traces

Linkography -- the analysis of links between the design moves that make up an episode of creative ideation or design -- can be used for both visual and quantitative assessment of creative activity traces. Traditional linkography, however, is time-consuming, requiring a human coder to manually annotate both the design moves within an episode and the connections between them. As a result, linkography has not yet been much applied at scale. To address this limitation, we introduce fuzzy linkography: a means of automatically constructing a linkograph from a sequence of recorded design moves via a "fuzzy" computational model of semantic similarity, enabling wider deployment and new applications of linkographic techniques. We apply fuzzy linkography to three markedly different kinds of creative activity traces (text-to-image prompting journeys, LLM-supported ideation sessions, and researcher publication histories) and discuss our findings, as well as strengths, limitations, and potential future applications of our approach.

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