MIT Visualization Group

We’re a research group at @MIT_CSAIL using data visualization as a petri dish to study intelligence augmentation.

[MIT Visualization Group @mitvis]

HUGE CONGRATS to Dr. @angie_boggust for a masterful defense of her thesis on “Reconciling AI Representations and User Mental Models” 🎉🍾🥂

We are going to miss you dearly at @mitvis 🥲

[Angie Boggust @angie_boggust]

Check out our autointerp paper ✨Semantic Regexes ✨at ICLR on Friday April 24!

@MIT_CSAIL and @Apple with @donghaoren, @tafsiri, @domoritz, @arvindsatya1 & @fredhohman

📅 https://t.co/ZOth9TihQO
📄 https://t.co/xm0FyP2yJB
🖥️ https://t.co/NGwt3usysh
🔗 https://t.co/qXhFwqtHo9

[Josh Pollock @joshmpollock]

color scales landing in gofish this week!

[Josh Pollock @joshmpollock]

Hello! New blog post about connections between external representations: https://t.co/VrWaim00is

[Dylan Wootton @WoottonDylan]

Come learn from Josh about how graphical operators enable some incredibly expressive vis design! This work has been incredibly influential in shaping how we’ve been thinking of the future of visualization grammars at @mitvis. 3:45 pm in Hall M2 #ieeevis #VIS26

[Ryan Yen @ryanyen22]

The most high quality poster Ive ever seen

[Josh Pollock @joshmpollock]

bet

[Arnav Verma @ArnavVerma0_0]

Personally I think my scrap paper chart looks better

[Josh Pollock @joshmpollock]

charts should have drop shadows

[Dylan Wootton @WoottonDylan]

Heading to @SciPyConf this week? Learn how to build effective interactive visualizations with @vega_vis in @jonmmease and my tutorial on Vega-Altair.

We’ll demo best practices for data visualization and show how to apply them to your own charts!

[Josh Pollock @joshmpollock]

Added a tutorial to the website!

[Josh Pollock @joshmpollock]

new charting library is baking

[Ryan Yen @ryanyen22]

“I’m working on a big idea!”

But… what is a big idea, really? And are we just telling ourselves that to feel better about not publishing? Or superior than others?

Some personal reflections on deep work and big idea:
🔗 https://t.co/aBn1xgnS54

[Angie Boggust @angie_boggust]

I’ll be at #CHI2025 🌸

If you are excited about interpretability and human-AI alignment — let’s chat!

And come see Abstraction Alignment ⬇️ in the Explainable AI paper session on Monday at 4:20 JST

[Angie Boggust @angie_boggust]

#CHI2025 paper on human–AI alignment! 🧵

Models can learn the right concepts but still be wrong in how they relate them.

✨Abstraction Alignment✨evaluates whether models learn human-aligned conceptual relationships.

It reveals misalignments in LLMs💬 and medical datasets🏥.

[Ryan Yen @ryanyen22]

Code Shaping just won the Best Paper Award at #CHI25!!! 🥳🎉 Thanks for the recognition!

If you've read the paper or watched my presentation, I’ve put together some insider scoops and untold stories from the making of this project 😉

👉 https://t.co/Nydp0ErmHj

[Angie Boggust @angie_boggust]

In an age of LARGE models, how do we support people in making them SMALLER? Compress and Compare is an interactive visual system tackling this question!

Check it out tomorrow @ieeevis w/ @venkats_14 @tafsiri @donghaoren @domoritz @fredhohman @Apple

🍎https://t.co/8qwDvbR6B7

[Arvind Satyanarayan @arvindsatya1]

I’m so enormously grateful and proud of our BostonVIS students! Within hours of #ieeevis going virtual, they jumped on Zoom and brainstormed a set of satellite events.

Two days later, we’re delighted to announce an initial schedule!!

RSVP + updates: https://t.co/mXd67dH04R