a lot of great feedback from visualization practitioners and academics alike, and I'm looking forward to heading back to DC with new tools to try, strategies to consider, and people to bother for help). Things I Missed in the Morning I wasn't able to see everything this morning, but it was clear from the #Visweek Twitterfeed that there are three papers I need to check out: 1. Nicholas Kong and Maneesh Agrawala presented a paper on graphical overlays that are layered onto charts to "facilitate a larger set of chart reading tasks". 2. The Typographic Map tool by Shehzad Afzal and others, with which you can make maps that merge text and spatial data. You can play with it here . 3. Justin Talbot, John Gerth and Pat Hanrahan's paper that shows William Cleveland's Banking to 45 aspect ratio design guideline might not actually be minimized around 45 or, as it became to be called here, Clevelandgate. In the Afternoon So after my talk and a tasty lunch in Capitol Hill, I was kind of in and out of sessions this afternoon. The tutorial on color theory by Theresa-Marie Rhyne was too technical for me. The panel on Reproducible Visualization Research was more interesting and appears to highlight challenges in the academic community that many fields face. Specifically, the panel was charged with discussing what changes might be needed to visualization research to assure greater reproducibility. Although there are parts of the data visualization field that have been around for