Hi, I’m Dominik Moritz

I’m a research scientist at Apple , working on data visualization and interactive systems for artificial intelligence. In 2020, I will start as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University where I co-started 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.

I research scalable interactive systems for visualization and analysis. 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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Pangloss

Pangloss is a big-data visualization system that uses approximation to answer queries quickly. I developed Falcon with Danyel Fisher at MSR.

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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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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 Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data Dominik Moritz, Danyel Fisher, Bolin Ding, Chi Wang. CHI, 2017. 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 Dynamic Client-Server Optimization for Scalable Interactive Visualization on the Web Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer, Bill Howe. DSIA at VIS, 2015. 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 Perfopticon: Visual Query Analysis for Distributed Databases Dominik Moritz, Daniel Halperin, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. EuroVis, 2015.

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News

  • Adam and I founded the Data Interaction Group at CMU.
  • I started working at Apple.
  • I submitted my dissertation.
  • I am starting at Apple in September and as an assistant professor at CMU in 2020.
  • 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.
  • I am organizing the DSIA Workshop at VIS 2018 in Berlin.
  • Vega-Lite is featured by Nature as a visualization tool for interactive and reproductible publishing.
  • Vega-Lite 2.1 released with support for geographic maps.

Travel

Mar 18–21, '20 U.S. Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, Seattle
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
Apr 30–May 3, '19 Scotland
Apr 26, '19 MIT, Cambridge
Apr 25, '19 Google, Cambridge
Apr 23, '19 Tableau, Seattle
Apr 17, '19 Northwestern, Evanston
Apr 15–16, '19 University of Chicago, Chicago