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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
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. 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
PDF | Software | Live
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. 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. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024
PDF | Software | Demo
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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. ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024
PDF | Supplement
UIST 2023 - San Francisco, CA
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Engraft: An API for Live, Rich, and Composable Programming. Josh Horowitz, Jeffrey Heer. 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. 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. 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
PDF | Benchmark Data | Video | Software
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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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IUI 2023 - Sydney, Australia
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ScatterShot: Interactive In-context Example Curation for Text Transformation. Tongshuang (Sherry) Wu, Hua Shen, Jeffrey Heer, Daniel S. Weld, Marco Tulio Ribeiro. ACM Intelligent User Interfaces, 2023
PDF | Honorable Mention Award
Updates
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!

March 27, 2023

ScatterShot earns an IUI’23 Honorable Mention.

October 16, 2022

Our interview study of data analysts received a 10-Year Test-of-Time Award.

May 10, 2022

Tisane is a CHI’22 Honorable Mention. Congrats Eunice!

October 15, 2021

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

September 27, 2021

IDL welcomes (back) Leilani Battle as a UW CSE professor and lab co-director!

October 20, 2020

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