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Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra

Microsoft Research
Oct 22

Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations

Flint‑interactive is a language developed by Microsoft Research that enables AI agents to generate interactive data visualizations. It allows users to click on charts, filter data, highlight related content, and explore beyond the initially chosen view. The system is designed to enhance user interaction with visual data representations.

By Chenglong Wang, Yuwei Xiao, Alper Sarikaya, Michel Galley, Chris Quirk, Jianfeng Gao
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
Oct 19

ATWL: A Formal Language for Representing, Comparing, and Reusing Visual Analytics Workflows

The paper introduces ATWL, a declarative language that formalizes visual analytics workflows by specifying typed artifacts and transforms with defined analytical intents and actors. A library of 54 workflows, curated from published papers with LLM assistance, demonstrates patterns such as human-machine labor division and refinement cycles. Experiments show that using ATWL and the library improves LLM-designed workflows, though branching remains a limitation requiring syntax extension.

By Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko, J\"urgen Bernard, Kuno Kurzhals, Michael Sedlmair
arXiv AI
Oct 27

RSIV-Harness: A Recursive Self-Improvement Harness Framework for Open-Domain Conversational Text-to-Visualization

RSIV-Harness is a framework that keeps language model weights fixed while recursively improving the surrounding harness based on failure traces, using a four-layer evaluation to ensure stability. It addresses challenges in open-domain conversational text-to-visualization, such as ambiguous user requests, data source discovery, and iterative chart refinement. The introduced ODAC-Vis benchmark evaluates these capabilities across 640 tasks, and experiments show significant gains in executability and chart structure after a single RSIV-Harness iteration.

By Jiawei Lu, Chen Zhang, Jinwei Lu, Yuanwei Song, Yuanfeng Song, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
arXiv AI
Jun 19

DataMagic: Transforming Tabular Data into Data Insight Video

arXiv:2606. 20388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data videos integrate dynamic charts, voice narration, and synchronized animations to communicate data insights as temporal narratives, making them an effective medium for improving data consumption efficiency in the data management lifecycle.

By Yupeng Xie, Chen Ma, Zhenyang Wang, Liangwei Wang, Jiayi Zhu, Chuxuan Zeng, Zhouan Shen, Boyan Li, Yuyu Luo
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