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Alex Kale
@AlexKale17
Assistant professor @UChicagoCS @DSI_UChicago. PhD @UW_iSchool. Visualization, data cognition, statistics, decision-making, HCI. he/him
Chicago, IL
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    Alex Kale
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    Apr 14, 2022
    I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted a position as an assistant professor at @UChicagoCS and @DSI_UChicago starting in 2022! It’s a dream come true for me. I’m looking forward to joining my amazing colleagues and building my lab, focused on interfaces for data cognition!
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    Alex Kale
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    May 12, 2022
    I defended my dissertation yesterday! It feels strange to be just about finished with my PhD. Huge thanks to the many people who’ve been a part of my grad school journey, especially my wonderful advisor @JessicaHullman, mentors @mjskay @jeffrey_heer @amyjko, and peers!
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    Alex Kale
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    Oct 9, 2020
    Does it bother anyone else that, after working on our research for years, we are expected to transfer copyright to publishers or pay them thousands of dollars to make our work open access? Why do we need publishers? Why do they get to own the fruits of our labor?
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    Alex Kale
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    Nov 4, 2023
    I’m growing annoyed at pressure to study, use, and brand everything AI. It’s not even that I’m disinterested in AI, but the concomitant push towards intellectual and cultural conformity in academia at this moment is suffocating.
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    Alex Kale
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    May 8, 2022
    My feed is full of people who went to CHI last week and tested positive over the weekend. Maybe it was too soon to gather in person by the thousands? Seeing this has pretty much killed whatever FOMO I was feeling last week about missing the conference. I hope people recover soon.
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    Alex Kale
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    Oct 2, 2020
    Big news! My paper with @JessicaHullman & @mjskay on “Visual Reasoning Strategies for Effect Size Judgments and Decisions” won Best Paper at IEEE InfoVis 2020! See my original thread about the paper for details.
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    Alex Kale
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    Jul 30, 2020
    We’re excited to share our preprint, “Visual Reasoning Strategies and Satisficing: How Uncertainty Visualization Design Impacts Effect Size Judgments and Decisions”, with @JessicaHullman & @mjskay Details in the thread! (1/n) arxiv.org/abs/2007.14516
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    Alex Kale
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    Mar 24, 2022
    There’s a trend of academics equating being critical with being mean spirited. As someone whose upbringing cast critique/complaint as an inherently good thing (striving for better, reconciling discomfort/ambiguity), I cannot help feeling somewhat maligned by this rhetoric.
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    Alex Kale
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    Feb 22, 2023
    Replying to @SteveWechslerPT @IanArawjo and @AcademicChatter
    I’m sorry but is a guilt trip the best response here? People are exhausted and overworked. Service work is voluntary, unless you’re a prof in which case it’s still your prerogative what to say yes to. There are ways of fixing peer review without blaming reviewers for what’s wrong
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    Alex Kale
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    Apr 21, 2023
    Replying to @jmeickle
    Sounds like a non-transparent automated imputation strategy that could silently fail and wreck an entire analysis.
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    Alex Kale
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    Jul 30, 2020
    We’re excited to share our preprint, “Visual Reasoning Strategies and Satisficing: How Uncertainty Visualization Design Impacts Effect Size Judgments and Decisions”, with @JessicaHullman & @mjskay Details in the thread! (1/n) arxiv.org/abs/2007.14516
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    Alex Kale
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    Aug 2, 2022
    We are seeking savvy data analysts to participate in a user study on new visualization tools for exploratory data analysis! Do you work with data regularly? Are you interested in GUI tools for data exploration? We want to hear from you! 1/
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    Alex Kale
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    Jul 11, 2022
    I’m recruiting PhD students this cycle @UChicagoCS @DSI_UChicago. If you’re excited about visualization, if you have burning questions about how people think with data, if you want to create statistical software, apply to work with me!
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    Alex Kale
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    Sep 8, 2023
    I am recruiting PhD students and postdocs this year! If you’re excited about building and evaluating data visualization and analysis software, please consider applying to join my lab @UChicagoCS @DSI_UChicago
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    Alex Kale
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    Feb 21, 2021
    If I worked at Google, I would be looking for a job with a different company. How many more unscrupulous firings before Google is starved of talent and contracts? Maybe I’m being naive in thinking they can be held accountable, but I hope I’m not.