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UW Interactive Data Lab
uwdata.github.io

our mission is to enhance people's ability to understand and communicate data through the design of new interactive systems for data visualization and analysis.
Updates
October 24, 2023

Congrats to Leilani Battle for the 2023 VGTC Significant New Researcher Award!

October 21, 2022

Six new papers at VIS 2023!

May 10, 2022

Congrats Eunice Jun for a CHI 2022 Honorable Mention!

September 27, 2021

IDL is thrilled to welcome Prof. Leilani Battle as a professor in CSE and co-director of the lab!

August 1, 2020

Congrats Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu for her ACL 2020 Best Paper on CheckList!

October 20, 2020

Our work on Narrative Visualization won an InfoVis 10-Year Test-of-Time Award.

October 15, 2021

D3 wins an InfoVis 10-Year Test-of-Time Award!

October 15, 2021

Congrats (again) Alex Kale et al. for a VIS 2021 Best Paper Honorable Mention!

October 20, 2020

Congrats Alex Kale et al. for a VIS 2020 Best Paper Award!

Courses
Graduate
CSE510: Topics in HCI
CSE512: Data Visualization
CSE544: Database Systems
CSE546: Machine Learning
CSE547: ML for Big Data
Undergraduate
CSE440: Intro to HCI
CSE441: Advanced HCI
CSE442: Data Visualization
CSE444: Database Systems
CSE446: Machine Learning
CSE457: Computer Graphics
Recent Publications
UIST 2023 - San Francisco, CA
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Engraft: An API for Live, Rich, and Composable Programming
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2023
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Living Papers: A Language Toolkit for Augmented Scholarly Communication
Jeffrey Heer, Matt Conlen, Vishal Devireddy, Tu Nguyen, Josh Horowitz
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2023
PDF | Video| Supplement| Software | BibTex | Best Paper Honorable Mention
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VegaProf: Profiling Vega Visualizations
Junran Yang, Alex Bäuerle, Dominik Moritz, Çağatay Demiralp
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2023
VIS 2023 - Melbourne, Australia
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DIVI: Dynamically Interactive Visualization
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2024
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EVM: Incorporating Model Checking into Exploratory Visual Analysis
Alex Kale, Ziyang Guo, Xiaoli Qiao, Jeffrey Heer, Jessica Hullman
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2024
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Mosaic: An Architecture for Scalable & Interoperable Data Views
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2024
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Too Many Cooks: Exploring How Graphical Perception Studies Influence Visualization Recommendations in Draco
Zehua Zeng, Junran Yang, Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer, Leilani Battle
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2024
CHI 2022 - New Orleans, LA
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AI Chains: Transparent and Controllable Human-AI Interaction by Chaining Large Language Model Prompts
Tongshuang Wu, Michael Terry, Carrie Cai
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2022
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Tisane: Authoring Statistical Models via Formal Reasoning from Conceptual and Data Relationships
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2022
PDF | Software| Supplement | BibTex | Best Paper Honorable Mention
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Visualizing Urban Accessibility: Investigating Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives through a Map-based Design Probe Study
Manaswi Saha, Siddhant Patil, Emily Cho, Evie Cheng, Chris Horng, Devanshi Chauhan, Rachel Kangas, Richard McGovern, Anthony Li, Jeffrey Heer, Jon Froehlich
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2022
VIS 2021
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Visual Reasoning Strategies for Effect Size Judgments and Decisions
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2021
PDF | Supplement | BibTex | Best Paper Award
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Gemini: A Grammar and Recommender System for Animated Transitions in Statistical Graphics
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2021
UIST 2021
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Idyll Studio: A Structured Editor for Authoring Interactive & Data-Driven Articles
Matt Conlen, Megan Vo, Alan Tan, Jeffrey Heer
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2021
ACL 2021
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Polyjuice: Generating Counterfactuals for Explaining, Evaluating, and Improving Models
Proc. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021
Distill 2020
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Communicating with Interactive Articles
Distill, 2020
VIS 2020 - Salt Lake City, UT
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Visual Reasoning Strategies for Effect Size Judgments and Decisions
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2021
PDF | Supplement | BibTex | Best Paper Award
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Gemini: A Grammar and Recommender System for Animated Transitions in Statistical Graphics
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2021
CHI 2020 - Honolulu, HI
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Paths Explored, Paths Omitted, Paths Obscured: Decision Points & Selective Reporting in End-to-End Data Analysis
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
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Dziban: Balancing Agency & Automation in Visualization Design via Anchored Recommendations
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
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No Explainability without Accountability: An Empirical Study of Explanations and Feedback in Interactive ML
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
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Techniques for Flexible Responsive Visualization Design
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
PDF | Video| Supplement | BibTex | Best Paper Award
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Tempura: Query Analysis with Structural Templates
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
IUI 2020 - Cagliari, Italy
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iSeqL: Interactive Sequence Learning
Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020
VIS 2019 - Vancouver, BC
ACL 2019 - Florence, Italy
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Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis
Proc. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019