UW Interactive Data Lab

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

Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics

Voyager: Exploratory Analysis with Visualization Recommendations

Idyll: A Markup Language for Interactive Articles

Reverse-Engineering Visualizations from Chart Images

updates

10 May 2022

Congrats Eunice Jun for a CHI 2022 Honorable Mention!

15 Oct 2021

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

15 Oct 2021

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

27 Sep 2021

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

20 Oct 2020

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

20 Oct 2020

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

01 Aug 2020

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

09 Mar 2020

Congrats Jane Hoffswell et al. for a CHI Best Paper Award!

25 Feb 2020

New CHI papers on responsive design, analysis decisions, vis recommenders, query analysis, and ML explainability.

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(View All Papers)

CHI 2022 - New Orleans, LA

AI Chains: Transparent and Controllable Human-AI Interaction by Chaining Large Language Model Prompts

Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu, Michael Terry, Carrie J. Cai

ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2022

PDF

Tisane: Authoring Statistical Models via Formal Reasoning from Conceptual and Data Relationships

Eunice Jun, Audrey Seo, Jeffrey Heer, René Just

ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2022

PDF | Software | Supplement | Best Paper Honorable Mention

Visualizing Urban Accessibility: Investigating Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives through a Map-based Design Probe Study

Manaswi Saha, Siddhant Patil, Emily Cho, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Chris Horng, Devanshi Chauhan, Rachel Kangas, Richard McGovern, Anthony Li, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich

ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2022

PDF

VIS 2021

Causal Support: Modeling Causal Inferences with Visualizations

Alex Kale, Yifan Wu, Jessica Hullman

IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2022

PDF | Supplement | Preregistration (1) | Preregistration (2) | Best Paper Honorable Mention

An Evaluation-Focused Framework for Visualization Recommendation Algorithms

Zehua Zang, Phoebe Moh, Fan Du, Jane Hoffswell, Tak Yeon Lee, Sana Malik, Eunyee Koh, Leilani Battle

IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2022

PDF | Supplement | Video | Best Paper Honorable Mention

Gemini^2: Generating Keyframe-Oriented Animated Transitions Between Statistical Graphics

Younghoon Kim, Jeffrey Heer

IEEE VIS Short Papers, 2021

PDF | Software

Fast & Accurate Gaussian Kernel Density Estimation

Jeffrey Heer

IEEE VIS Short Papers, 2021

PDF | Software | Benchmarks

UIST 2021

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

PDF | Software

ACL 2021

Polyjuice: Generating Counterfactuals for Explaining, Evaluating, and Improving Models

Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Jeffrey Heer, Daniel S. Weld

Proc. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021

PDF | Software | Video

VIS 2020 - Salt Lake City, UT

Boba: Authoring and Visualizing Multiverse Analyses

Yang Liu, Alex Kale, Tim Althoff, Jeffrey Heer

IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VAST), 2021

PDF | Supplement | Software

Gemini: A Grammar and Recommender System for Animated Transitions in Statistical Graphics

Younghoon Kim, Jeffrey Heer

IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2021

PDF | Supplement | Software

Visual Reasoning Strategies for Effect Size Judgments and Decisions

Alex Kale, Matthew Kay, Jessica Hullman

IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2021

PDF | Supplement | Best Paper Award

Fast and Flexible Overlap Detection for Chart Labeling with Occupancy Bitmap

Chanwut Kittivorawang, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jeffrey Heer

IEEE VIS Short Papers, 2020

PDF | Software

Distill 2020

Communicating with Interactive Articles

Fred Hohman, Matt Conlen, Jeffrey Heer, Duen Horng (Polo) Chau

Distill, 2020

Journal

CHI 2020 - Honolulu, HI