Message from the Editor-in-Chief

Welcome to the January 2025 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). This is my second IEEE VIS special issue as Editor-in-Chief, and I am very excited to introduce it to you all. As in the previous three years, the papers submitted to IEEE VIS were categorized into six major research subareas: Theoretical & Empirical (112 papers), Applications (154), Systems & Rendering (51), Representations & Interaction (110), Data Transformations (53) and Analytics & Decisions (77). The conference took place in St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, during October 13-18, 2024. Included in this special issue are the top 124 papers selected by the Program Committee from a total of 557 submissions.