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Creating Accessible Data Visualizations with Dominik Moritz
HCI Ideas
34 minutes
1 year ago
Creating Accessible Data Visualizations with Dominik Moritz
In this episode, we talk with Professor Dominik Moritz (co-lead of CMU’s Data Interaction Group) about his work in data visualization and his efforts to make it more accessible for everyone, from the visually impaired to those who aren’t data science experts. We explore the motivation and functionality behind several libraries he has developed, and discuss his unique perspective on careers in both industry and academia.
Links:
Dominik’s Website: https://www.domoritz.de/
Research Papers:
https://idl.cs.washington.edu/files/2017-VegaLite-InfoVis.pdf (Vega-Lite - a high-level grammar for interactive data visualization)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8440847 (Draco - a system to automate data visualization)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10297587 (Mosaic - a framework for scalable data visualizations)
https://www.frank.computer/chartability/ (Chartability - a tool to measure accessibility of data visualizations)
Links to Libraries:
https://vega.github.io/vega/
https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
https://altair-viz.github.io/
https://dig.cmu.edu/draco2/intro.html
https://idl.uw.edu/mosaic/