Thanks to all who joined us for our @ieeevis Seattle satellite! Come meet some of the participants and learn about their work:

With DracoGPT, Will Wang shows how to extract and model visualization design preferences from generative AI systems — enabling new ways to quantify, evaluate, and efficiently reuse LLM-based chart recommendations. #ieeevis

Congratulations to IDL alum @domoritz for winning a VGTC Significant New Researcher award!! A premier honor for early career researchers in visualization!.

RT @edublancas: Mosaic is the future of data visualization. 10M cross-filtered rows with client-side processing. Powered by @duckdb https:….

RT @MadeleineGrunde: Chaining LLM calls can improve output quality, but navigating the massive space of task decompositions is challenging.….

RT @michelle123lam: “Can we get a new text analysis tool?”.“No—we have Topic Model at home”. Topic Model at home: outputs vague keywords; n….

RT @vega_vis: The Vega Project is happy to announce the release of version 5.3.0 of the Vega-Altair Python visualization library. This rele….

RT @mbostock: Observable Framework 1.3 🆕 integrates @uwdata’s Mosaic vgplot, which can concisely expressive performant coordinated views of….

RT @jeffrey_heer: Interact with millions of data points in real-time with Mosaic, now with support for geospatial data. Exploring 1M taxi p….

RT @MadeleineGrunde: Chaining LLMs together to overcome LLM errors is an emerging, yet challenging, technique. What can we learn from crowd….

RT @uwcse: As a kid, #UWAllen @uwdata professor & alum Leilani Battle wanted to be a game developer. At @UW, instead of games, she immersed….

RT @ieeevis: Join us in congratulating Dr. Leilani Battle for receiving the 2023 VGTC Visualization Significant New Researcher Award at #IE….

And congrats also to the other Significant New Researcher recipient, UW alum Matt Kay (@mjskay)!.

Congrats to IDL co-director Leilani Battle (@leibatt) for the 2023 VGTC Significant New Researcher Award! #IEEEVIS2023

RT @jdwlbr: Really enjoying playing with @uwdata 's Mosaic, linking @duckdb with @observablehq plot feels so natural and responsive - just….

RT @arvindsatya1: VisText has been a *ton* of work, and 2 yrs of solid effort. So it's exciting to (finally!) be able to talk about it, and….

RT @hamiltonulmer: Mosaic looks really great! Great to see a viz library thread down to the db level. DuckDB is such a natural choice for s….

While Mosaic is still "research grade" software, we think the approach is quite promising. Feel free to share feedback or contribute on GitHub!

To test Mosaic we developed vgplot, a Mosaic-based grammar of interactive graphics that uses Observable Plot to perform chart rendering. Our initial benchmark studies show order-of-magnitude performance improvements over Vega, VegaFusion, and standard Observable Plot.