LIDA is a bit old now, but certainly addresses some of the opportunities you discuss here (e.g., summarization, implicit language based data wrangling and visualization, creativity ).
Hey Victor, great to see you here! I did not know you were on Substack. Happy to hear you enjoyed the post. I plan to explore LIDA a bit as soon as I have time. Are you still working on similar projects?
Though tech companies are including AI features on its data viz tools, there are a few articles talking about its impact. I'm excited to see how it would change data visualization processes, particularly how data engineering could optimize datasets for end users' discoveries. Great article!
This was the article I’ve been waiting for. Fascinating. Building dashboards and presentations, I feel sucked into the technical aspects that I would love to hand off to AI. That would free me up to think more, ask better questions and discover more valuable answers. I’m OK forgetting how to ride a horse. Excited to hear more about your work!
Yes. Presentations are a bit like my "data tours" use case. As soon as an AI knows how to create a sequence of plots and add some descriptions it already provides some supports. One could do some manual data analysis and generate lots of plots (I often have a crazy number when I use Tableau) and then let the AI figure out an initial sequence that could be edited if necessary. My biggest worry is that it's never going to be good enough to be useful. I can't tell!
Interesting article, with good questions about AI and Dataviz.
Have you looked at this project by Microsoft Research? https://microsoft.github.io/lida/
Never tried. Did you?
Creator of LIDA here ...
Just saw your post, very well done!
LIDA is a bit old now, but certainly addresses some of the opportunities you discuss here (e.g., summarization, implicit language based data wrangling and visualization, creativity ).
Post: https://newsletter.victordibia.com/p/lida-automatic-generation-of-grammar
ACL Paper : https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-demo.11.pdf
Hey Victor, great to see you here! I did not know you were on Substack. Happy to hear you enjoyed the post. I plan to explore LIDA a bit as soon as I have time. Are you still working on similar projects?
Same here, great to meet!
I am working quite a bit on LLM-Enabled agents and interaction/visualization tools related to this space.
https://newsletter.victordibia.com/p/autogen-studio-a-no-code-user-interface
Also working on some extensions to LIDA (but at a slower pace). Will share as I have updates!
Not yet but the demo video looks promising.
Though tech companies are including AI features on its data viz tools, there are a few articles talking about its impact. I'm excited to see how it would change data visualization processes, particularly how data engineering could optimize datasets for end users' discoveries. Great article!
This was the article I’ve been waiting for. Fascinating. Building dashboards and presentations, I feel sucked into the technical aspects that I would love to hand off to AI. That would free me up to think more, ask better questions and discover more valuable answers. I’m OK forgetting how to ride a horse. Excited to hear more about your work!
Yes. Presentations are a bit like my "data tours" use case. As soon as an AI knows how to create a sequence of plots and add some descriptions it already provides some supports. One could do some manual data analysis and generate lots of plots (I often have a crazy number when I use Tableau) and then let the AI figure out an initial sequence that could be edited if necessary. My biggest worry is that it's never going to be good enough to be useful. I can't tell!
I know how to ride a horse, I wouldn't trade it for all of the internet.