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

24 Oct 2022

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

21 Oct 2022

Six new papers at VIS 2023!

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!

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)

UIST 2023 - San Francisco, CA

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 | Best Paper Honorable Mention

Engraft: An API for Live, Rich, and Composable Programming

Josh Horowitz, Jeffrey Heer

ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2023

PDF | Software

VegaProf: Profiling Vega Visualizations

Junran Yang, Alex Bäuerle, Dominik Moritz, Çağatay Demiralp

ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2023

PDF | Video | Software

VIS 2023 - Melbourne, Australia

Mosaic: An Architecture for Scalable & Interoperable Data Views

Jeffrey Heer, Dominik Moritz

IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2024

PDF | Benchmark Data | Video | Software

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

PDF

DIVI: Dynamically Interactive Visualization

Luke Snyder, Jeffrey Heer

IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2024

PDF

Draco 2: An Extensible Platform to Model Visualization Design

Junran Yang, Péter Ferenc Gyarmati, Zehua Zeng, Dominik Moritz

IEEE VIS Short Papers, 2023

PDF | Software | Best Paper Honorable Mention

WhaleVis: Visualizing the History of Commercial Whaling

Ameya Patil, Zoe Rand, Trevor Branch, Leilani Battle

IEEE VIS Short Papers, 2023

PDF

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

PDF | Software

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

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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 Zeng, 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