research
The State of the Art in Visualization Literacy
Matthew Varona, Karen Bonilla, Maryam Hedayati, Alark Joshi, Matthew Kay, Lane Harrison, Carolina Nobre
(preprint)
A systematic review of visualization literacy spanning 374 papers. We analyze advancements across 5 categories of literacy research and propose 4 key competency themes that define the field.
Theory is Shapes
Matthew Varona, Maryam Hedayati, Matthew Kay, Carolina Nobre
alt.vis workshop at IEEE VIS 2025 (arxiv)
A satirical treatise about “theory figures”. We present ideas like “The BLT Theory of Visualization Consumption” to argue that theory is, in fact, shapes.
teaching
- TA for CSC2537 Information Visualization graduate course (Fall 2025)
- Prep TA for CSC316 Data Visualization, helping with pedagogical design for the new version of the course (Summer 2025)
- TA for CSC316 Data Visualization (Winter 2025, Fall 2025)
- TA for CSC318 The Design of Interactive Computational Media (Fall 2024)
- Co-designed and taught a data visualization workshop for high schoolers at CS Academy
