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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
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
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.
10 Feb 2020
IUI 2020 paper on interactive learning for text sequences.
18 Feb 2019
Two papers at CHI 2019!
16 Aug 2018
Three new papers at VIS'18, including an InfoVis Best Paper Award for Draco!
15 Aug 2018
Catch our paper on the Idyll language for interactive articles at ACM UIST 2018!
10 May 2018
EuroVis'18 papers on SetCoLa for custom graph layout and the effects of task and data on visual encoding effectiveness.
20 Feb 2018
Five new papers at CHI'18!
07 Sep 2017
Five new papers at VIS'17, including VAST Best Paper and InfoVis Honorable Mention award winners!
25 May 2017
Watch Ham, Dom & Arvind present Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics at OpenVis Conf 2017!
17 Dec 2015
We started an IDL blog!
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 2020 - Honolulu, HI
Techniques for Flexible Responsive Visualization Design
Jane Hoffswell, Wilmot Li, Zhicheng Liu
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
PDF | Video | Supplement | BibTeX | Best Paper Award
Paths Explored, Paths Omitted, Paths Obscured: Decision Points & Selective Reporting in End-to-End Data Analysis
Yang Liu, Tim Althoff, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
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Dziban: Balancing Agency & Automation in Visualization Design via Anchored Recommendations
Halden Lin, Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
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Tempura: Query Analysis with Structural Templates
Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Donghao Ren, Kayur Patel, Chris DuBois
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
PDF | Video | BibTeX
No Explainability without Accountability: An Empirical Study of Explanations and Feedback in Interactive ML
Alison Smith-Renner, Ron Fan, Melissa Birchfield, Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Daniel S. Weld, Leah Findlater
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020
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IUI 2020 - Cagliari, Italy
iSeqL: Interactive Sequence Learning
Akshat Shrivastava, Jeffrey Heer
Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020
PDF | Appendix | Software | BibTeX
VIS 2019 - Vancouver, BC
Critical Reflections on Visualization Authoring Systems
Arvind Satyanarayan, Bongshin Lee, Donghao Ren, Jeffrey Heer, John Stasko, John R. Thompson, Matthew Brehmer, Zhicheng Liu
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2020
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ACL 2019 - Florence, Italy
Errudite: Scalable, Reproducible, and Testable Error Analysis
Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Jeffrey Heer, Daniel S. Weld
Proc. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019
PDF | Code | Video | BibTeX
EuroVis 2019 - Porto, Portugal
Capture & Analysis of Active Reading Behaviors for Interactive Articles on the Web
Matt Conlen, Alex Kale, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2019
PDF | Data | Code | BibTeX
Designing Animated Transitions to Convey Aggregate Operations
Younghoon Kim, Michael Correll, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2019
PDF | Data | BibTeX
Color Names Across Languages: Salient Colors and Term Translation in Multilingual Color Naming Models
Younghoon Kim, Kyle Thayer, Gabriella Silva Gorsky, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2019
PDF | Data | BibTeX
Latent Space Cartography: Visual Analysis of Vector Space Embeddings
Yang Liu, Eunice Jun, Qisheng Li, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2019
PDF | Supplement | Software | Video | BibTeX
Characterizing Exploratory Visual Analysis: A Literature Review and Evaluation of Analytic Provenance in Tableau
Leilani Battle, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2019
PDF | Data | BibTeX
CHI 2019 - Glasgow, Scotland
A Bayesian Cognition Approach to Improve Data Visualization
Yea-Seul Kim, Logan Walls, Peter Krafft, Jessica Hullman
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019
PDF | BibTeX
Vocal Shortcuts for Creative Experts
Yea-Seul Kim, Mira Dontcheva, Eytan Adar, Jessica Hullman
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019
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Interactive Repair of Tables Extracted from PDF Documents on Mobile Devices
Jane Hoffswell, Zhicheng Liu
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019
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Falcon: Balancing Interactive Latency and Resolution Sensitivity for Scalable Linked Visualizations
Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2019
PDF | Software | BibTeX
PNAS 2019
Similarity in Transgender and Cisgender Children’s Gender Development
Selin Gülgöz, Jessica J. Glazier, Elizabeth A. Enright, Daniel J. Alonso, Lily J. Durwood, Anne A. Fast, Riley Lowe, Chonghui Ji, Jeffrey Heer, Carol Lynn Martin, Kristina R. Olson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(49), pp. 24480-24485, 2019
PDF | Journal | Data | BibTeX
Agency plus Automation: Designing Artificial Intelligence into Interactive Systems
Jeffrey Heer
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(6), pp. 1844-1850, 2019
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VIS 2018 - Berlin, Germany
Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco
Dominik Moritz, Chenglong Wang, Gregory Nelson, Halden Lin, Adam M. Smith, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2019
PDF | Software | BibTeX | Best Paper Award
Hypothetical Outcome Plots Help Untrained Observers Judge Trends in Ambiguous Data
Alex Kale, Francis Nguyen, Matthew Kay, Jessica Hullman
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2019
PDF | Data | BibTeX
In Pursuit of Error: A Survey of Uncertainty Visualization Evaluation
Jessica Hullman, Xiaoli Qiao, Michael Correll, Alex Kale, Matthew Kay
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2019
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UIST 2018 - Berlin, Germany
Idyll: A Markup Language for Authoring and Publishing Interactive Articles on the Web
Matt Conlen, Jeffrey Heer
ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2018
PDF | Software | Talk Video | BibTeX
EuroVis 2018 - Brno, Czech Republic
Assessing Effects of Task and Data Distribution on the Effectiveness of Visual Encodings
Younghoon Kim, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2018
PDF | Data | BibTeX
SetCoLa: High-Level Constraints for Graph Layout
Jane Hoffswell, Alan Borning, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2018
PDF | Appendix | Software | BibTeX
CHI 2018 - Montreal, Quebec
Improving Comprehension of Measurements Using Concrete Re-expression Strategies
Jessica Hullman, Yea-Seul Kim, Francis Nguyen, Lauren Speers, Maneesh Agrawala
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018
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Uncertainty Displays Using Quantile Dotplots or CDFs Improve Transit Decision-Making
Michael Fernandes, Logan Walls, Sean Munson, Jessica Hullman, Matthew Kay
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018
PDF | BibTeX | Best Paper Honorable Mention
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: An Empirical Assessment of Quantitative Colormaps
Yang Liu, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018
PDF | Data | BibTeX
Augmenting Code with In Situ Visualizations to Aid Program Understanding
Jane Hoffswell, Arvind Satyanarayan, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018
PDF | BibTeX
Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes
Michael Correll, Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018
PDF | Data | BibTeX
Towards Design Principles for Visual Analytics in Operations Contexts
Matt Conlen, Sara Stalla, Chelly Jin, Maggie Hendrie, Hillary Muskin, Santiago Lombeyda, Scott Davidoff
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018
PDF | BibTeX
VIS 2017 - Phoenix, AZ
Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in TensorFlow
Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Daniel Smilkov, James Wexler, Jimbo Wilson, Dandelion Mané, Doug Fritz, Dilip Krishnan, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VAST), 2018
PDF | Video | BibTeX | Best Paper Award
Keeping Multiple Views Consistent: Constraints, Validations, and Exceptions in Visualization Authoring
Zening Qu, Jessica Hullman
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2018
PDF | BibTeX | Best Paper Honorable Mention
Data Through Others' Eyes: The Impact of Visualizing Others' Expectations on Visualization Interpretation
Yea-Seul Kim, Katharina Reinecke, Jessica Hullman
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2018
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Imagining Replications: Graphical Prediction & Discrete Visualizations Improve Recall & Estimation of Effect Uncertainty
Jessica Hullman, Matthew Kay, Yea-Seul Kim, Samana Shrestha
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2018
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Extracting and Retargeting Color Mappings from Bitmap Images of Visualizations
Jorge Poco, Angela Mayhua, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2018
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EuroVis 2017 - Barcelona, Spain
Reverse-Engineering Visualizations: Recovering Visual Encodings from Chart Images
Jorge Poco, Jeffrey Heer
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2017
PDF | Appendix | Software | BibTeX
Finding a Clear Path: Structuring Strategies for Visualization Sequences
Jessica Hullman, Robert Kosara, Heidi Lam
Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis), 2017
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CHI 2017 - Denver, CO
Voyager 2: Augmenting Visual Analysis with Partial View Specifications
Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Zening Qu, Dominik Moritz, Riley Chang, Felix Ouk, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017
PDF | Video | BibTeX
GraphScape: A Model for Automated Reasoning about Visualization Similarity and Sequencing
Younghoon Kim, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jessica Hullman, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017
PDF | Software | Supplement | BibTeX | Best Paper Honorable Mention
Explaining the Gap: Visualizing One's Predictions Improves Recall and Comprehension of Data
Yea-Seul Kim, Katharina Reinecke, Jessica Hullman
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017
PDF | BibTeX | Best Paper Award
Regression by Eye: Estimating Trends in Bivariate Visualizations
Michael Correll, Jeffrey Heer
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017
PDF | Data | BibTeX
Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data
Dominik Moritz, Danyel Fisher, Bolin Ding, Chi Wang
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017
PDF | Video Preview | BibTeX
VIS 2016 - Baltimore, MD
Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
Arvind Satyanarayan, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2017
PDF | Video | Software | BibTeX | Best Paper Award
Surprise! Bayesian Weighting for De-Biasing Thematic Maps
Michael Correll, Jeffrey Heer
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2017
PDF | Software | BibTeX
SIGMOD 2016 - San Francisco, CA
Towards A General-Purpose Query Language for Visualization Recommendation
Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
ACM SIGMOD Human-in-the-Loop Data Analysis (HILDA), 2016
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