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Skipping the Replication Crisis in Visualization: Threats to Study Validity and How to Address Them : Position Paper

Authors :
Steve Haroz
Robert Kosara
Source :
BELIV
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
IEEE, 2018.

Abstract

Replications are rare in visualization research, but if they were more common, it is not unreasonable to believe that they would show a similar rate of unreproducible results as in the psychological and social sciences. While a replication crisis in visualization research would be a helpful wake-up call, examining and correcting the underlying problems in many studies is ultimately more productive.In this paper, we survey the state of replication in visualization research. We examine six threats to the validity of studies in visualization and suggest ways to address them. Finally, we describe possible models for publishing replications that satisfy the novelty criterion that can keep replications from being accepted.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
2018 IEEE Evaluation and Beyond - Methodological Approaches for Visualization (BELIV)
Accession number :
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