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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.
Recent Publications
VIS 2025 - Vienna, Austria
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Data Augmentation for Visualization Design Knowledge Bases. Hyeok Kim, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2026
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Mosaic Selections: Managing and Optimizing User Selections for Scalable Data Visualization Systems. Jeffrey Heer, Dominik Moritz, Ron Pechuk. IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2026
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UIST 2025 - Busan, South Korea
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Sculpin: Direct-Manipulation Transformation of JSON. Josh Horowitz, Devamardeep Hayatpur, Haijun Xia, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2025
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Creativity & Cognition 2025
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From Pen to Prompt: How Creative Writers Integrate AI into their Writing Practice. Alicia Guo, Shreya Sathyanarayanan, Leijie Wang, Jeffrey Heer, Amy X. Zhang. Proc. ACM Creativity & Cognition, 2025
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EMNLP 2024 - Miami, FL
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BLADE: Benchmarking Language Model Agents for Data-Driven Science. Ken Gu, Ruoxi Shang, Ruien Jiang, Keying Kuang, Richard-John Lin, Donghe Lyu, Yue Mao, Youran Pan, Teng Wu, Jiaqian Yu, Yikun Zhang, Tianmai M. Zhang, Lanyi Zhu, Mike Merrill, Jeffrey Heer, Tim Althoff. Proc. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
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VIS 2024
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DracoGPT: Extracting Visualization Design Preferences from Large Language Models. Will (Huichen) Wang, Mitchell Gordon, Leilani Battle, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2025
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Mixing Linters with GUIs: A Color Palette Design Probe. Andrew McNutt, Maureen Stone, Jeffrey Heer. IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2025
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CHI 2024 - Honolulu, HI
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rTisane: Externalizing Conceptual Models for Data Analysis Prompts Reconsideration of Domain Assumptions and Facilitates Statistical Modeling. Eunice Jun, Edward Misback, Jeffrey Heer, René Just. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024
PDF | Software | Best Paper Award
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Concept Induction: Analyzing Unstructured Text with High-Level Concepts Using LLooM. Michelle Lam, Janice Teoh, James A. Landay, Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bernstein. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024
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How Do Data Analysts Respond to AI Assistance? A Wizard-of-Oz Study. Ken Gu, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Andrew McNutt, Jeffrey Heer, Tim Althoff. Proc. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024
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UIST 2023 - San Francisco, CA
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Engraft: An API for Live, Rich, and Composable Programming. Josh Horowitz, Jeffrey Heer. Proc. 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. Proc. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2023
PDF | Video | Supplement | Software | Honorable Mention Award
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VegaProf: Profiling Vega Visualizations. Junran Yang, Alex Bäuerle, Dominik Moritz, Çağatay Demiralp. Proc. ACM User Interface Software & Technology (UIST), 2023
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VIS 2023 - Melbourne, Australia
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DIVI: Dynamically Interactive Visualization. Luke Snyder, Jeffrey Heer. 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. Jeffrey Heer, Dominik Moritz. 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
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Updates
October 3, 2025

Voyager won a VIS 10 Year Test-of-Time Award!

October 1, 2025

Publish-Time Optimizations for Web-Based Visualization won a VIS 2025 Best Short Paper Honorable Mention.

June 27, 2025

Our Mosaic demo received a SIGMOD 2025 Best Demo Honorable Mention.

October 16, 2024

IDL alum Dominik Moritz won a 2024 VGTC Significant New Researcher Award!

April 26, 2024

rTisane wins a CHI 2024 Best Paper Award!

October 30, 2023

Living Papers receives a UIST 2023 Honorable Mention.

October 24, 2023

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

October 21, 2023

Six new papers at VIS 2023!