Jeffrey Heer
@jheer.org
UW Computer Science Professor. Data, visualization & interaction. UW Interactive Data Lab, Vega, Ex-Trifacta. Sometimes Seattle, manchmal Berlin.
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Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Data Visualizations as Propaganda: Tracing Lineages, Provenance, and Political Framings in Online Anti-Immigrant Discourse | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Along with other visual content, data visualizations are increasingly used within
online discourse, including political communication. Though often considered to be
''objective'', data visualizations ...
dl.acm.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
[Short thread]
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github.com/vega/altair hit 10k ⭐️ on GitHub recently. Congrats to the Altair team and the amazing community.
GitHub - vega/altair: Declarative visualization library for Python
Declarative visualization library for Python. Contribute to vega/altair development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
github.com/vega/altair hit 10k ⭐️ on GitHub recently. Congrats to the Altair team and the amazing community.
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Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026
We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
data-and-design.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
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The data vis project "Mosaic: An Architecture for Linking Databases and Scalable Interactive Visualizations" received a SIGMOD Best Demo Runner Up award at the ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data in Berlin, Germany.
Congrats to the Mosaic team on this recognition! 📊🎉
Congrats to the Mosaic team on this recognition! 📊🎉
July 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The data vis project "Mosaic: An Architecture for Linking Databases and Scalable Interactive Visualizations" received a SIGMOD Best Demo Runner Up award at the ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data in Berlin, Germany.
Congrats to the Mosaic team on this recognition! 📊🎉
Congrats to the Mosaic team on this recognition! 📊🎉
The Mosaic architecture for database-backed interactive visualization just hit 1,000 stars on GitHub! Thank you to all who have participated and contributed!
April 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The Mosaic architecture for database-backed interactive visualization just hit 1,000 stars on GitHub! Thank you to all who have participated and contributed!
TFW you have a grand idea only to find it's out of reach. So it goes for my chatbot that meows and purrs.
February 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
TFW you have a grand idea only to find it's out of reach. So it goes for my chatbot that meows and purrs.
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Allen School professors Brian Curless and Jeffrey Heer named ACM Fellows for helping transform how we use computing technologies news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/14/a...
Allen School professors Brian Curless and Jeffrey Heer named ACM Fellows for helping transform how we use computing technologies - Allen School News
Each year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recognizes the top 1 percent of its members who have made notable contributions to the field of computing science and technology as ACM Fellows...
news.cs.washington.edu
February 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Allen School professors Brian Curless and Jeffrey Heer named ACM Fellows for helping transform how we use computing technologies news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/14/a...
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Allen School professor Amy X. Zhang receives Sloan Research Fellowship for empowering users to make ‘our online spaces as rich and varied as our offline ones’ news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/24/a...
Allen School professor Amy X. Zhang receives Sloan Research Fellowship for empowering users to make ‘our online spaces as rich and varied as our offline ones’ - Allen School News
As the head of the Allen School’s Social Futures Lab, professor Amy X. Zhang’s research draws on the design of offline public institutions and communities to then develop new social computing systems ...
news.cs.washington.edu
February 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Allen School professor Amy X. Zhang receives Sloan Research Fellowship for empowering users to make ‘our online spaces as rich and varied as our offline ones’ news.cs.washington.edu/2025/02/24/a...
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@joshuahhh.com and I invite you to explore our experimental visual programming environment (which takes place in a dungeon)
Features
- dissolve the bounds of decision and explore all possibilities at once
- use sigillic incantations, delve into recursive caverns
vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post
Features
- dissolve the bounds of decision and explore all possibilities at once
- use sigillic incantations, delve into recursive caverns
vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post
An invitation into Droste's Lair
A swords-and-sorcery programming environment for building and counting mathematical structures
vezwork.github.io
December 16, 2024 at 3:36 PM
@joshuahhh.com and I invite you to explore our experimental visual programming environment (which takes place in a dungeon)
Features
- dissolve the bounds of decision and explore all possibilities at once
- use sigillic incantations, delve into recursive caverns
vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post
Features
- dissolve the bounds of decision and explore all possibilities at once
- use sigillic incantations, delve into recursive caverns
vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post
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Us #ieeevis 2025 OPCs worked hard on this: the new call for papers is now live! ieeevis.org/year/2025/ye...
Submit your best work!
Brief account of changes for 2025:
* Extra week for supplemental material
* Student reviewer program
* Opt-in publication of reviews for accepted papers
Submit your best work!
Brief account of changes for 2025:
* Extra week for supplemental material
* Student reviewer program
* Opt-in publication of reviews for accepted papers
ieeevis.org
December 13, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Us #ieeevis 2025 OPCs worked hard on this: the new call for papers is now live! ieeevis.org/year/2025/ye...
Submit your best work!
Brief account of changes for 2025:
* Extra week for supplemental material
* Student reviewer program
* Opt-in publication of reviews for accepted papers
Submit your best work!
Brief account of changes for 2025:
* Extra week for supplemental material
* Student reviewer program
* Opt-in publication of reviews for accepted papers
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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction is looking for outreach editors, i.e., junior researchers who wants to rethink and implement how the journal engages online with readers and authors. Deadline for applications is Dec 11. Call at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... or ask me for more info.
Kasper Hornbæk on LinkedIn: Dear HCI community (please share, forward)
We are seeking two Outreach…
Dear HCI community (please share, forward)
We are seeking two Outreach Editors for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). The Outreach Editor…
www.linkedin.com
November 28, 2024 at 6:11 AM
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction is looking for outreach editors, i.e., junior researchers who wants to rethink and implement how the journal engages online with readers and authors. Deadline for applications is Dec 11. Call at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... or ask me for more info.
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People are now using LLMs to create charts and graphs. How might we assess the quality and consistency of the results? DracoGPT is a method that fits a visualization knowledge base (Draco) to LLM responses, enabling comparison across models, prompts, and results from human subjects experiments.
November 26, 2024 at 7:12 PM
People are now using LLMs to create charts and graphs. How might we assess the quality and consistency of the results? DracoGPT is a method that fits a visualization knowledge base (Draco) to LLM responses, enabling comparison across models, prompts, and results from human subjects experiments.
Our research lab is now here on Bluesky! 📊📈
Hi Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Interactive Data Lab at UW. We’ll post about data visualization, analysis, and human-computer interaction research, as well as open source projects. Over the years we’ve been involved with Protovis, D3, Data Wrangler (-> Trifacta), Vega/Vega-Lite, Mosaic, and other projects!
November 25, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Our research lab is now here on Bluesky! 📊📈
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Mosaic v0.12 is out: database-powered scalable, interactive visualization! 📈 One new addition is support for dynamic changes in the backing data. Move between smaller and larger samples to balance speed and comprehensive coverage.
November 21, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Mosaic v0.12 is out: database-powered scalable, interactive visualization! 📈 One new addition is support for dynamic changes in the backing data. Move between smaller and larger samples to balance speed and comprehensive coverage.
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still polishing the ergonomics, but really excited to have this working!
the little 3mb binary connects to a kernel and launches a native webview to display outputs. ~super~ lightweight and flexible way to script with anywidgets
mosaic from the command line with `jupyter console`:
the little 3mb binary connects to a kernel and launches a native webview to display outputs. ~super~ lightweight and flexible way to script with anywidgets
mosaic from the command line with `jupyter console`:
November 15, 2024 at 2:59 AM
still polishing the ergonomics, but really excited to have this working!
the little 3mb binary connects to a kernel and launches a native webview to display outputs. ~super~ lightweight and flexible way to script with anywidgets
mosaic from the command line with `jupyter console`:
the little 3mb binary connects to a kernel and launches a native webview to display outputs. ~super~ lightweight and flexible way to script with anywidgets
mosaic from the command line with `jupyter console`: