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UW Interactive Data Lab
Visualization + Analysis
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.
Data-Driven Documents (D3.js)
Data Wrangler
Model-Driven Text Visualization
imMens: Visual Querying of Big Data
Lyra: A Visualization Design Environment
Predictive Translation Memory
Color Naming Models
updates
17 May 2016
Watch Arvind and Jessica present at OpenVis Conf 2016.
17 Dec 2015
We started an IDL blog!
30 Oct 2015
Our re-analysis of correlation perception data won a best paper honorable mention at InfoVis 2015!
12 Aug 2015
Three new papers at VIS 2015!
01 Jun 2015
Watch Jeff's keynote talks at Strata and OpenVis Conf.
14 Jan 2015
Diana's analysis of addiction recovery in online forums was selected as a Best Paper Honorable Mention at CSCW!
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
CSE444: Database Systems
CSE446: Machine Learning
CSE457: Computer Graphics
recent publications(View All Papers)
EuroVis 2016 - Groningen, Netherlands
Visual Debugging Techniques for Reactive Data Visualization
Jane Hoffswell, Arvind Satyanarayan, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2016
PDF
CHI 2016 - San Jose, CA
Snap Decisions? How Users, Content, and Aesthetics Interact to Shape Photo Sharing Behaviors
Sanjay Kairam, Jofish Kaye, John Guerra-Gomez, David A. Shamma
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2016
PDF
Generating Personalized Spatial Analogies for Distances and Areas
Yea-Seul Kim, Jessica Hullman, Maneesh Agrawala
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2016
PDF | Supplement
When(ish) is My Bus? User-centered Visualizations of Uncertainty in Everyday, Mobile Predictive Systems
Matthew Kay, Tara Kola, Jessica Hullman, Sean Munson
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2016
PDF | Supplement
VIS 2015 - Chicago, IL
Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations
Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2016
PDF | Video | Software | Application
Beyond Weber's Law: A Second Look at Ranking Visualizations of Correlation
Matthew Kay, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2016
PDF | Software | Best Paper Honorable Mention
Reactive Vega: A Streaming Dataflow Architecture for Declarative Interactive Visualization
Arvind Satyanarayan, Ryan Russell, Jane Hoffswell, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2016
PDF | Software
NAACL-HLT 2015 - Denver, CO
TopicCheck: Interactive Alignment for Assessing Topic Model Stability
Jason Chuang, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart, Rebecca Weiss, Dustin Tingley, Justin Grimmer, Jeffrey Heer
NAACL-HLT, 2015
PDF
EuroVis 2015 - Cagliari, Sardinia
Perfopticon: Visual Query Analysis for Distributed Databases
Dominik Moritz, Daniel Halperin, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 34(3), 2015
PDF | Video
Refinery: Visual Exploration of Large, Heterogeneous Networks through Associative Browsing
Sanjay Kairam, Nathalie Henry Riche, Steven Drucker, Roland Fernandez, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 34(3), 2015
PDF
CSCW 2015 - Vancouver, Canada
Forum77: An Analysis of an Online Health Forum Dedicated to Addiction Recovery
Diana MacLean, Sonal Gupta, Anna Lembke, Christopher D. Manning, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2015
PDF | Best Paper Honorable Mention
Content, Context, and Critique: Commenting on a Data Visualization Blog
Jessica Hullman, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Elaheh Momeni Roochi, Eytan Adar
ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2015
PDF
CIDR 2015 - Asilomar, CA
Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation
Jeffrey Heer, Joseph Hellerstein, Sean Kandel
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2015
PDF
VIS 2014 - Paris, France
Learning Perceptual Kernels for Visualization Design
Çağatay Demiralp, Michael Bernstein, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2014
PDF | Supplement | Software
The Effects of Interactive Latency on Exploratory Visual Analysis
Zhicheng Liu, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2014
PDF
EMNLP 2014 - Doha, Qatar
Human Effort and Machine Learnability in Computer Aided Translation
Spence Green, Sida Wang, Jason Chuang, Jeffrey Heer, Sebastian Schuster, Christopher D. Manning
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2014
PDF
UIST 2014 - Honolulu, HI
Declarative Interaction Design for Data Visualization
Arvind Satyanarayan, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jeffrey Heer
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2014
PDF | Supplement | Video
Predictive Translation Memory: A Mixed-Initiative System for Human Language Translation
Spence Green, Jason Chuang, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher D. Manning
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2014
PDF | Video
EuroVis 2014 - Swansea, Wales
Lyra: An Interactive Visualization Design Environment
Arvind Satyanarayan, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2014
PDF | Supplement | Application | Software | Video
Authoring Narrative Visualizations with Ellipsis
Arvind Satyanarayan, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2014
PDF | Supplement | Application | Software | Video