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most citedStriking a Balance: Reader Takeaways and Preferences when Integrating Text and Charts

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Lexara-RF: Reference-Free Metrics for Evaluating Conversational Visual Analytics Agents

Srishti Palani, Vidya Setlur

Conversational visual analytics (CVA) agents powered by large language models generate visualizations and natural-language explanations from open-ended queries. Evaluating these mu…

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Ptolemy: A Semantic Map of Exploratory Data Analysis

Dylan Wootton, Denny Bromley, Vidya Setlur

A central challenge in exploratory data analysis (EDA) is keeping track of what has already been examined in order to decide what to analyze next. In practice, analysts often run d…

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AI Agents and the Future of VIS

Chen Zhu-Tian, Nam Wook Kim, Saeed Boorboor +4

Recent advances in agents (i.e., autonomous, goal-driven AI systems that iteratively observe, act, and learn from their environments) offer a fundamentally different approach from…

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Not Always Top-Left: Untangling the Signals that Guide Dashboard Reading Order

Nicole Sultanum, Vidya Setlur

Dashboards are widely used interfaces for data analysis, combining multiple visualizations, text, and interactive controls within a single view. While dashboard authors often struc…

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From 'Here' to 'There': Exploring Proximity Semantics in Multimodal Data Exploration

Dennis Bromley, Diana Wang, Vidya Setlur

Modern data exploration tools often struggle to capture the subtleties of analytical intent, especially when users seek patterns that are difficult to specify using traditional que…

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Lexara: A User-Centered Toolkit for Evaluating Large Language Models for Conversational Visual Analytics

Srishti Palani, Vidya Setlur

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming Conversational Visual Analytics (CVA) by enabling data analysis through natural language. However, evaluating LLMs for CVA remains a c…

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"I Need to Find That One Chart": How Data Workers Navigate, Make Sense of, and Communicate Analytical Conversations

Ken Gu, Srishti Palani, Vidya Setlur

Conversational interfaces are increasingly used for data analysis, enabling data workers to express complex analytical intents in natural language. Yet, these interactions unfold a…