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Matplotlib vs Plotly: Which Python Chart Tool Should You Choose?

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arXiv AI
Sep 15

ChartAnno: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Chart Annotation Generation

arXiv:2608.03464v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Annotations are essential to communicative visualization, helping explain data, emphasize key findings, and guide attention. While multimodal large...

By Zhenghan Chen, Zekai Shao, Lidan Tan, Xin Lin, Xingchen Zeng, Yi Shan, Ziyue Lin, Xiaoliang Fu, Xinyuan Liu, Yuetong Guo, Fen Wang, Bongshin Lee, Siming Chen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

ChartAnno: Evaluating MLLMs for Chart Annotation Generation

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in chart understanding, generation, and editing, but their ability to annotate existing charts remains underexplored. Annotating charts is a common yet challenging communicative task, requiring models to infer intended messages, interpret chart semantics, and place appropriate textual or graphical elements.

arXiv AI
3d ago

ChartRevise: A Dataset and Evaluation Protocol for Exact Chart Editing via Code

ChartRevise is a new dataset and evaluation protocol designed for exact chart editing via code. It contains 92,438 records covering 344 edit types across 20 chart types and three plotting libraries, built using the grammar of graphics and source‑program checks to ensure applicability. The protocol measures atomic requirement completion, detects gratuitous changes and missed coupled updates, and combines these with execution and rendering success to determine exact‑edit success.

By Jiaxiang Tang, Yi Zhou, Chad DeLuca, Rogerio Feris, Ahmed Khalil Omran, Zhi-Li Zhang, Pengyuan Li, Ali Anwar
arXiv AI
Aug 5

ChartAnno: Evaluating MLLMs for Chart Annotation Generation

arXiv:2608. 03464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in chart understanding, generation, and editing, but their ability to annotate existing charts remains underexplored.

By Zhenghan Chen, Zekai Shao, Lidan Tan, Xin Lin, Xingchen Zeng, Yi Shan, Ziyue Lin, Xiaoliang Fu, Xinyuan Liu, Yuetong Guo, Fen Wang, Bongshin Lee, Siming Chen
Microsoft Research
Jul 8

Flint: A visualization language for the AI era

Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive charts from compact, human-editable specifications.

By Chenglong Wang, Alper Sarikaya, Scott Tsukamaki, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Dashboard2Code: Evaluating Multimodal Models on Reconstructing Interactive Dashboards

arXiv:2607. 04727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic data visualization generation has advanced rapidly with multi-modal large language models, yet existing efforts largely focus on static charts and overlook the interactive dashboards commonly used for real-world data exploration.

By Tianhao Niu, Ziyu Han, Qiguang Chen, Shiqi Zhou, Baocai Shan, Hengjie Fang, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

Automated Residual Plot Assessment With the R Package autovi and the Shiny Application autovi.web

Visual assessment of residual plots is a common approach for diagnosing linear models, but it relies on manual evaluation, which does not scale well and can lead to inconsistent decisions across analysts. The lineup protocol, which embeds the observed plot among null plots, can reduce subjectivity but requires even more human effort.