Publications
You can find my academic and professional experience in my CV. Talks are listed below.
2019
Advances in Visualization of Big Data.
Chapter of the book “Managing Heterogenous Data and Polystore Databases” edited by Vijay Gadepally, Sam Madden, Michael Stonebraker and to be published by MIT Press.
2018
Altair: Interactive Statistical Visualizations for Python
The Journal of Open Source Software
In preparation.
Exploring neighborhoods in large metagenome assembly graphs reveals hidden sequence diversity
Preprint on bioRxiv.
Visualizing a Million Time Series with the Density Line Chart
Beyond Heuristics: Learning Visualization Design
Apply ML methods to leverage empirical and curated visualization data for automated design.Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco
Draco models visualization guidelines as logical constraints. Shareable design guidelines, formal reasoning, vis recommendation & more.
Best Paper Award
Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes
Special color palettes that suppress differences for uncertain values.2017
Text detection in screen images with a Convolutional Neural Network
The Journal of Open Source Software
Use deep learning to find text in screen images. Learned from millions of papers.
What Users Don't Expect about Exploratory Data Analysis on Approximate Query Processing Systems
Traditional exploratory visualization systems fail when the database is approximate.
Distinguished Long Talk
Lessons from Pangloss: User Encounters with Uncertainty
Tools need to better support analysts who work with approximate data.Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data
Optimistic Visualization gives data analysts confidence to use approximation for EDA.Voyager 2: Augmenting Visual Analysis with Partial View Specifications
Voyager 2 blends manual and automated chart specification.The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service
Myria is a distributed DB for data science.Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
Vega-Lite is a declarative language for visualization and interaction.
Best Paper Award
2016
SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment
Data analysts can use SQL to analyze data; if the system supports complex queries.
Most Reproducible Paper Award
Towards A General-Purpose Query Language for Visualization Recommendation
CompassQL is a query language for visualization recommendation.2015
Dynamic Client-Server Optimization for Scalable Interactive Visualization on the Web
Interactive visualizations in client-server systems can have reduced latency.Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations
Visualization recommendation promotes breadth and prevents early fixation.
Invited to SIGGRAPH 2016
Perfopticon: Visual Query Analysis for Distributed Databases
Visualization of dataflow and distributed execution in Myria. Influenced the design of the Distributed Dask web interface.
Visual performance debugging for queries in distributed database systems.2014
Demonstration of the Myria Big Data Management Service
Demo paper about the Myria system.
2013
Visualization of Varying Hierarchies by Stable Layout of Voronoi Treemaps
Publication of algorithms that I developed for my bachelor thesis.
Use Voronoi tesselation for stable treemaps.Algorithms for the Visualization of Software System Evolution
My bachelor thesis. Not published due to non disclosure agreement.
Talks
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Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco
IEEE VIS, Berlin
Microsoft Research, Redmond
UW Database Affiliates Workshop, Seattle
Automated Visualization Design with Draco
Tableau Research, Seattle
Microsoft Excel, Redmond
Declarative Visualization with Vega-Lite and Altair
Data Stories Podcast
Website
Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
UW ACM Student, Seattle
Technical University Berlin, Berlin
DeepMind (Google), London
City University, London
Microsoft, Redmond
Video
Turi (Apple), Seattle
IEEE Infovis, Baltimore
Declarative Visualization Design with Vega-Lite
Tintash, Lahore
Visualization Grammars
Dagstuhl Seminar on Connecting Visualization and Data Management Research
Website
Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data
Tableau Research, Seattle
Database Seminar, Microsoft Research, Redmond
ACM CHI, San Jose
Video
What Users Don’t Expect about Exploratory Data Analysis on AQP Systems
HILDA at ACM SIGMOD, Chicago
Vega-Lite: A Declarative Format for Visualization
Plotcon, New York City
Website
Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations
SIGGRAPH, Anaheim
Tableau Research, Seattle
IEEE Infovis, Chicago
Perfopticon: Visual Query Analysis for Distributed Databases
Eurovis, Cagliari