Hi, I’m Dominik Moritz

I’m faculty at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and an ML researcher at Apple . I design and build interactive systems for visualization and analysis. At CMU, I co-lead the Data Interaction Group.

I received my PhD from the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington, where I worked with Jeff Heer and Bill Howe in the Interactive Data Lab and the Database Group.

My systems have won awards at premier academic venues and are used by the Python and JavaScript data science communities.

Dominik Moritz

During my first year at UW, I received support from the Fulbright program. In 2013, I received my B.S. from Hasso Plattner Institute. I am a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation. I have worked with the Open Knowledge Foundation, Google Research, and Microsoft Research. Details are in my CV.

Draco

I created Draco, a formal model of visualization design with shareable design guidelines, formal reasoning over the design space, and visualization recommendation.

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Falcon

Falcon is an interactive system for real-time brushing and linking interactions among multiple visualizations of billion-record datasets.

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Vega-Lite

I am the co-author of Vega-Lite, a high-level visualization grammar for rapid specification of interactive, multi-view graphics.

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DuckDB WASM

DuckDB-Wasm: Efficient Analytical SQL in the Browser.

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Leveraging Analysis History for Improved In Situ Visualization Recommendation Will Epperson, Doris Jung-Lin Lee, Leijie Wang, Kunal Agarwal, Aditya Parameswaran, Dominik Moritz, Adam Perer. EuroVis, 2022. How accessible is my visualization? Evaluating visualization accessibility with Chartability Frank Elavsky, Cynthia Bennett, Dominik Moritz. EuroVis, 2022. Interactive Systems for Scalable Visualization and Analysis Dominik Moritz. 2019. Falcon: Balancing Interactive Latency and Resolution Sensitivity for Scalable Linked Visualizations Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. CHI, 2019. Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco Dominik Moritz, Chenglong Wang, Greg L. Nelson, Halden Lin, Adam M. Smith, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. InfoVis, 2018.
Best Paper Award 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. CHI, 2017. Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics Arvind Satyanarayan, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jeffrey Heer. InfoVis, 2017.
Best Paper Award Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data Dominik Moritz, Danyel Fisher, Bolin Ding, Chi Wang. CHI, 2017. Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. InfoVis, 2015.
Invited to SIGGRAPH 2016 Dynamic Client-Server Optimization for Scalable Interactive Visualization on the Web Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer, Bill Howe. DSIA at VIS, 2015.

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Latest News

  • At Apple, we released Swift Charts.
  • At Apple, we released Audio Graphs.
  • My dissertation won the IEEE VGTC Outstanding Dissertation Award.
  • Starting faculty position at CMU HCII.
  • Adam and I founded the Data Interaction Group at CMU.
  • I started working at Apple.
  • I submitted my dissertation.
  • I passed my final exam (thesis defense).
  • I passed my general exam and am now a PhD candidate.
  • Draco receives the best paper award at InfoVis 2018.

Latest Travel

Mar 24–22, '23 Columbia, NYC
Oct 16–21, '22 IEEE VIS, Oklahoma
Apr 30–May 5, '22 ACM CHI, New Orleans
Oct 24–29, '21 IEEE VIS, Online
Oct 25–30, '20 IEEE VIS, Online
Dec 9–13, '19 NeurIPS, Vancouver
Oct 29–Nov 1, '19 OSDC, San Francisco
Oct 20–25, '19 VIS, Vancouver
Jun 24–27, '19 Remote Week, Bay Area
May 4–9, '19 CHI, Glasgow