CMU DIG

Publications

We publish at Visualization, Machine Learning, and Data Science conferences.

🚧 Work in Progress 🚧

This is an incomplete list. We will be adding the rest of our publications here soon. Until then, have a look at Adam's and Dominik's websites.

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            2019

            Interactive Systems for Scalable Visualization and Analysis

            Dominik Moritz

            Dominik’s PhD thesis.

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            Falcon: Balancing Interactive Latency and Resolution Sensitivity for Scalable Linked Visualizations

            Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
            CHI in Glasgow, UK 2019
            PDF Project Bibtex DOI: c5cv OSF: szpqm

            2018

            Altair: Interactive Statistical Visualizations for Python

            Jacob VanderPlas, Brian E. Granger, Jeffrey Heer, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Arvind Satyanarayan, Eitan Lees, Ilia Timofeev, Ben Welsh, Scott Sievert
            The Journal of Open Source Software 2018
            PDF Project Bibtex DOI: cxrt

            Beyond Heuristics: Learning Visualization Design

            Bahador Saket, Dominik Moritz, Halden Lin, Victor Dibia, Çağatay Demiralp, Jeffrey Heer
            VisGuides at VIS in Berlin, Germany 2018
            Apply ML methods to leverage empirical and curated visualization data for automated design.
            PDF Bibtex arXiv: 1807.06641

            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 in Berlin, Germany 2018
            Draco models visualization guidelines as logical constraints. Shareable design guidelines, formal reasoning, vis recommendation & more.
            Best Paper Award
            PDF Project Article Recording Slides Bibtex DOI: 10/cs68 OSF: 3eg9c

            Visualizing a Million Time Series with the Density Line Chart

            Dominik Moritz, Danyel Fisher
            arXiv 2018
            PDF Bibtex arXiv: 1808.06019

            Exploring neighborhoods in large metagenome assembly graphs reveals hidden sequence diversity

            C. Titus Brown, Dominik Moritz, Michael O'Brien, Felix Reidl, Taylor Reiter, Blair Sullivan
            bioRxiv preprint 2018
            PDF Project Article Bibtex DOI: 10/cwrw

            Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes

            Michael Correll, Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer
            CHI in Montréal, Canada 2018
            Special color palettes that suppress differences for uncertain values.
            PDF Project Article Bibtex DOI: 10/crpf

            2017

            What Users Don't Expect about Exploratory Data Analysis on Approximate Query Processing Systems

            Dominik Moritz, Danyel Fisher
            HILDA at SIGMOD in Chicago, IL, USA 2017
            Traditional exploratory visualization systems fail when the database is approximate.
            Distinguished Long Talk
            PDF Slides Bibtex DOI: 10/b7js

            Text detection in screen images with a Convolutional Neural Network

            Dominik Moritz
            The Journal of Open Source Software 2017
            Use deep learning to find text in screen images. Learned from millions of papers.
            PDF Project Bibtex DOI: 10/b89p

            Lessons from Pangloss: User Encounters with Uncertainty

            Dominik Moritz, Danyel Fisher
            Designing for Uncertainty in HCI at CHI in Denver, CO, USA 2017
            Tools need to better support analysts who work with approximate data.
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            The Myria Big Data Management and Analytics System and Cloud Service

            Jingjing Wang, Tobin Baker, Magdalena Balazinska, Daniel Halperin, Brandon Haynes, Bill Howe, Dylan Hutchison, Shrainik Jain, Ryan Maas, Parmita Mehta, Dominik Moritz, Brandon Myers, Jennifer Ortiz, Dan Suciu, Andrew Whitaker, Shengliang Xu
            CIDR in Chaminade, CA, USA 2017
            Myria is a distributed DB for data science.
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            Extracting Neighborhood Structure from Very Large DNA Graphs

            C. Titus Brown, Dominik Moritz, Michael P. O'Brien, Felix Reidl, Blair D. Sullivan
            SIAM Workshop on Network Science 2017
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            Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data

            Dominik Moritz, Danyel Fisher, Bolin Ding, Chi Wang
            CHI in Denver, CO, USA 2017
            Optimistic Visualization gives data analysts confidence to use approximation for EDA.
            PDF Video Recording Slides Bibtex DOI: 10/b7jt OSF: tfwqj

            Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics

            Arvind Satyanarayan, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jeffrey Heer
            InfoVis in Baltimore, MD, USA 2017
            Vega-Lite is a declarative language for visualization and interaction.
            Best Paper Award
            PDF Project Video Slides Bibtex DOI: 10/f92f32

            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 in Denver, CO, USA 2017
            Voyager 2 blends manual and automated chart specification.
            PDF Project Video Bibtex DOI: 10/b7jv

            2016

            Towards A General-Purpose Query Language for Visualization Recommendation

            Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
            HILDA at SIGMOD in San Francisco, CA, USA 2016
            CompassQL is a query language for visualization recommendation.
            PDF Bibtex DOI: 10/cssd

            High Variety Cloud Databases

            Shrainik Jain, Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe
            ICDE 2016
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            SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment

            Shrainik Jain, Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Ed Lazowska
            SIGMOD in San Francisco, CA, USA 2016
            Data analysts can use SQL to analyze data; if the system supports complex queries.
            Most Reproducible Paper Award
            PDF Project Bibtex DOI: 10/c5rw

            2015

            Dynamic Client-Server Optimization for Scalable Interactive Visualization on the Web

            Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer, Bill Howe
            DSIA at VIS in Chicago, IL, USA 2015
            Interactive visualizations in client-server systems can have reduced latency.
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            Perfopticon: Visual Query Analysis for Distributed Databases

            Dominik Moritz, Daniel Halperin, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
            EuroVis in Cagliari, Italy 2015

            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.
            PDF Project Video Bibtex DOI: 10/f7kqsv

            Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations

            Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer
            InfoVis in Chicago, IL, USA 2015
            Visualization recommendation promotes breadth and prevents early fixation.
            Invited to SIGGRAPH 2016
            PDF Project Video Bibtex DOI: 10/bdsz

            2014

            Demonstration of the Myria Big Data Management Service

            Daniel Halperin, Victor Teixeira de Almeida, Lee Lee Choo, Shumo Chu, Paraschos Koutris, Dominik Moritz, Jennifer Ortiz, Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk, Jingjing Wang, Andrew Whitaker, Shengliang Xu, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Dan Suciu
            SIGMOD in Snowbird, UT, USA 2014

            Demo paper about the Myria system.

            PDF Project

            Visualization of Varying Hierarchies by Stable Layout of Voronoi Treemaps

            Sebastian Schmechel, Jonas Trümper, Dominik Moritz, Jürgen Döllner
            International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP) 2014

            Publication of algorithms that I developed for my bachelor thesis.

            Use Voronoi tesselation for stable treemaps.
            PDF Project