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Use when deciding whether a project belongs at IEEE VIS or should be routed to EuroVis, PacificVis, CHI, a graphics venue, or the IEEE TVCG journal track, and when choosing among the six VIS areas (Theoretical & Empirical, Applications, Systems & Rendering, Representations & Interaction, Data Transformations, Analytics & Decisions) by contribution type and evidence maturity.

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# VIS Topic Selection

Decide the venue and the area before drafting. IEEE VIS is the flagship of the visualization
community, and since 2021 it is a **single unified conference** whose full papers are **IEEE TVCG
journal articles** across **six areas**. Two routing questions matter: **is this a visualization
paper at all** (versus HCI, graphics, or ML), and **which of the six areas** is its primary home.
A technically strong paper whose real lesson is about a model, a rendering primitive, or an
interaction unrelated to seeing data is respected and then rejected as out of scope.

## Is it a visualization paper?

VIS rewards contributions about **how people visually represent, interact with, and reason about
data**. The test: if you removed the *visual-representation-and-task* core, is there still a paper?
If the contribution is a machine-learning model whose visualization is incidental, or a rendering
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