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Welcome to the proceedings of the Pacific Visualization Symposium 2015 (PacificVis 2015), eighth in a series of successful events that have been sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC). Past PacificVis symposia were held in Kyoto (2008), Beijing (2009), Taipei (2010), Hong Kong (2011), Songdo (2012), Sydney (2013), and Yokohama (2014). This year, PacificVis is held in China, organized by Zhejiang University, and held at Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, from April 14th to 17th, 2015.