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My name is Maxim Lisnic and I am a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered
Computing at the University of Utah's
[Kahlert School of Computing](https://www.cs.utah.edu/). I
am advised by [Marina Kogan](http://www.mkoganresearch.com/) and [Alexander Lex](https://www.alexander-lex.net/). This summer, I'm interning with [Tableau Research](https://www.tableau.com/research).

I am broadly interested in _human-data interaction_ and _data visualization_. My research focuses on how people interpret, misinterpret, reframe, communicate with, and even spread misinformation with data and charts.

You can access my CV [here](/files/lisnic_cv.pdf).

## Peer-reviewed publications

#### "Yeah, this graph doesn't show that": Analysis of Online Engagement with Misleading Data Visualizations

_Maxim Lisnic_, Alexander Lex, Marina Kogan \
Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24) \
Paper doi: [10.1145/3613904.3642448](https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642448)

#### Misleading Beyond Visual Tricks: How People _Actually_ Lie With Charts

_Maxim Lisnic_, Cole Polychronis, Alexander Lex, Marina Kogan \
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23) \
Paper doi: [10.1145/3544548.3580910](https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580910)

## Preprints

#### Visualization Guardrails: Designing Interventions Against Cherry-Picking in Interactive Data Explorer

_Maxim Lisnic_, Zach Cutler, Marina Kogan, Alexander Lex \
Preprint doi: [10.31219/osf.io/4j9nr](https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/4j9nr)

#### Here's what you need to know about my data: Exploring Expert Knowledge's Role in Data Analysis

Haihan Lin, _Maxim Lisnic_, Derya Akbaba, Miriah Meyer, Alexander Lex \
Preprint doi: [10.31219/osf.io/dn32z](https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/dn32z)

## Presentations

#### "Yeah, this graph doesn't show that": Analysis of Online Engagement with Misleading Data Visualizations

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany (May 2024)

#### Designing Insightful Data Visualizations

MarketDial, Salt Lake City, UT (April 2024)

#### Misleading Beyond Visual Tricks: How People _Actually_ Lie With Charts

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany (April 2023)

## Teaching

Teaching assistant & guest lecture for COMP5960: Applied Data Visualization (Fall 2023)

Guest lecture for CS6630: Visualization for Data Science (Fall 2022)

Teaching assistant & guest lecture for DS2500: Data Wrangling (Spring 2022)