[CS] Krisha Mehta MS Presentation/Dec 1, 2025

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This is an announcement of Krisha Mehta's MS Presentation
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Candidate: Krisha Mehta

Date: Monday, December 01, 2025

Time: 11 am CST

Remote Location:  https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94022149271?pwd=Pi3fHrT6A24giCWrdYRZ1uZY2XaoTW.1 Meeting ID: 940 2214 9271 Passcode: 714854

Location: JCL 298

Title: Visualizations as a Mechanism for Data Disclosure

Abstract: Visualizing data often entails data transformations that can reveal and hide information, operations we dub disclosure tactics. Whether designers hide information intentionally or as an implicit consequence of other design choices, tools and frameworks for visualization offer little explicit guidance on disclosure. I present an analysis that surveys these disclosure tactics and organizes them into a taxonomy based on how they change the data representation underlying a chart, providing a systematic way to reason about design trade-offs in terms of what information is revealed, distorted, or hidden. We demonstrate how designers benefit from our taxonomy by showing how it can guide reasoning in design scenarios where disclosure is a first-order consideration. Adopting disclosure as a framework offers new perspective on how we teach data visualizations, design authoring tools and communicate uncertainty information.

Advisors: Alex Kale

Committee Members: Marshini Chetty, Aloni Cohen, Alex Kale, and Gordon Kindlmann