Publications
You can find my academic and professional experience in my CV. Talks are listed below.
2018
Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes
2017
Text detection in screen images with a Convolutional Neural Network
What Users Don't Expect about Exploratory Data Analysis on Approximate Query Processing Systems
Traditional exploratory visualization systems fail when the database is approximate.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.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.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.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
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
These are talks I have given outside of regular conferences. Want me to give a talk? Send me an email!
2018
Vega-Lite
Data Stories Podcast
Declarative Visualization Design with Vega-Lite
Tintash, Lahore
2017
Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
Technical University, Berlin
Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
DeepMind (Google), London
Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
City University, London
Visualization Grammars
Dagstuhl Seminar on Connecting Visualization and Data Management Research
Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
Microsoft, Redmond
Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
Turi (Apple), Seattle
Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data
Tableau Research, Seattle
2016
Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data
Database Seminar, Microsoft Research, Redmond
Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations
SIGGRAPH, Anaheim
2015
Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations
Tableau Research, Seattle