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🧵(5/5) For more details, read the full work incoming at IEEE VIS from @wattenberg.bsky.social, @jlsun.bsky.social and me at arxiv.org/abs/2507.18022!
Does visualization help AI understand data?
Charts and graphs help people analyze data, but can they also be useful to AI systems? To investigate this question, we perform a series of experiments with two commercial vision-language models: GPT ...
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August 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🧵(5/5) For more details, read the full work incoming at IEEE VIS from @wattenberg.bsky.social, @jlsun.bsky.social and me at arxiv.org/abs/2507.18022!
🧵(4/5) What role could incorporating charts play in AI-driven data analysis workflows?
Visualization is essential for humans to synthesize complex information––can AI shed light on human psychology or the underlying principles of visual knowledge discovery?
And many more!
Visualization is essential for humans to synthesize complex information––can AI shed light on human psychology or the underlying principles of visual knowledge discovery?
And many more!
August 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🧵(4/5) What role could incorporating charts play in AI-driven data analysis workflows?
Visualization is essential for humans to synthesize complex information––can AI shed light on human psychology or the underlying principles of visual knowledge discovery?
And many more!
Visualization is essential for humans to synthesize complex information––can AI shed light on human psychology or the underlying principles of visual knowledge discovery?
And many more!
🧵(3/5) How do graphical variations in graphs affect our results? Could there be a new body of scholarship in visualization for AI-oriented chart design?
We use default Matplotlib scatterplots––how might visualizations be optimized for AIs?
We use default Matplotlib scatterplots––how might visualizations be optimized for AIs?
August 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🧵(3/5) How do graphical variations in graphs affect our results? Could there be a new body of scholarship in visualization for AI-oriented chart design?
We use default Matplotlib scatterplots––how might visualizations be optimized for AIs?
We use default Matplotlib scatterplots––how might visualizations be optimized for AIs?
🧵(2/5) Comparison with two baselines––providing a blank chart and a chart with mismatched data––shows that the improved performance is due to the content of the charts.
AI systems benefiting from visualization raises many intriguing questions:
AI systems benefiting from visualization raises many intriguing questions:
August 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🧵(2/5) Comparison with two baselines––providing a blank chart and a chart with mismatched data––shows that the improved performance is due to the content of the charts.
AI systems benefiting from visualization raises many intriguing questions:
AI systems benefiting from visualization raises many intriguing questions: