
Visualization at @databricks. Co-author of Vega-Lite, Voyager, and TensorFlow Graph Visualizer. Formerly @uwdata and @apple. Views are my own.
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My team at Databricks is hiring front-end/full-stack software engineers in Seattle and the SF Bay Area. If you’re excited about building world-class products for AI/BI & Data Visualization, you can apply through this job posting: databricks.com/company/caree….
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This is such an amazing improvement. Now you can make Altair charts over large data without having to install Vega Fusion separately.
Replying to @vega_vis
The @vegafusion_io data transformer has been integrated with the JupyterChart jupyter widget to enable scaling many interactive Vega-Altair charts to millions of rows. Here is an example of histogram cross filtering with a 1 million row dataset.
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I am recruiting PhD students and postdocs this year! If you’re excited about building and evaluating data visualization and analysis software, please consider applying to join my lab @UChicagoCS @DSI_UChicago
We're hiring experienced software engineers who are passionate about data viz for the Visualization team at Databricks.
If u're interested, apply to our Frontend or Full-stack role in Seattle or SF and indicate that u're interested in the Viz team.
databricks.com/company/caree…
Ideal candidates should have 2-8 years of software engineering experience and have a passion for data management, visualization, and UX.
If you're interested, read more about why I think we have an exciting opportunity for visualization tool builders at Databricks here.
databricks.com/blog/2021/11/…
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Interested in a PhD pushing the boundaries of data visualization, analysis tools, or scholarly communication? Consider applying to join the Interactive Data Lab! Both @leibatt and @jeffrey_heer are looking to advise new students.
Congrats @arvindsatya1 :)
Congrats @arvindsatya1! Its been thrilling to watch @mitvis take off and contribute to accessible visualization, interpretable ML, our understanding of COVID-19 vis, new vis tools and more.
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Congrats to @seankandel, Andreas Paepcke, @joe_hellerstein, and @jeffrey_heer for their 10yr Test of Time!! 🎉📈
📃Paper: idl.cs.washington.edu/papers…
(Ps that’s three-in-a-row ToTs for @jeffrey_heer! Phew, what an inspiration!)
#ieeevis
Excited to see this. So proud of my former colleagues! :)
Human Interface Guidelines for Charts are here! We've been working on these pages for a bit—hope you find them useful 📊🥳
Patterns page: developer.apple.com/design/h…
Components page: developer.apple.com/design/h…
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If you want to be the first to see some great new Databricks UIs, Data+AI summit is coming up. Keynotes start June 28th.
databricks.com/dataaisummit/
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My #WWDC22 talk introducing Swift Charts 📊 is online at developer.apple.com/wwdc22/1….
It's part of a collection of talks. The other three! will drop tomorrow.
Swift Charts is released at #WWDC22!
Congrats to @domoritz @donghaoren @halden_lin
@feltron, Jo, Saba, and others for the release!
It's an honor to work on earlier versions of this framework with all of you!
This is amazing haha.
Was inspired by @thingskatedid to try outputting Vega Lite images in my terminal from spec fragments. 📊
![The script: `cat ~/downloads/cars.json | jq '{data: ., hconcat: [{width: 600, height: 500, mark: "point" , encoding: {color: {field: "Origin"}, y: {field: "Miles_per_Gallon", type: "Q"}, x: {field: "Weight_in_lbs", type: "Q"}}}, {width: 600, height: 500, mark: "bar", encoding: {x: {field: " Origin"}, y: {field: "Miles_per_Gallon", type: "Q", aggregate: "average"}}}]}' | vl | ivega` and some corresponding charts output in the terminal.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRdVzdiWQAA8u8Y.jpg?name=small&format=webp)
ALT The script: `cat ~/downloads/cars.json | jq '{data: ., hconcat: [{width: 600, height: 500, mark: "point" , encoding: {color: {field: "Origin"}, y: {field: "Miles_per_Gallon", type: "Q"}, x: {field: "Weight_in_lbs", type: "Q"}}}, {width: 600, height: 500, mark: "bar", encoding: {x: {field: " Origin"}, y: {field: "Miles_per_Gallon", type: "Q", aggregate: "average"}}}]}' | vl | ivega` and some corresponding charts output in the terminal.
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Incidentally, Databricks is hiring all eng roles. There's really exciting stuff going on and we're growing super fast. DM me what you're interested in and I can put you in touch with the right people.
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Submissions are open for the 2022 Computation+Journalism Conference until May 9th.
The conference will be held in person at Columbia this year and online. More info: brown.columbia.edu/cj2022/

















