Dominik Moritz — Building Intuitive Data Visualization Tools
Dominik Moritz — Building Intuitive Data Visualization Tools  
Podcast: Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI
Published On: Thu Mar 25 2021
Description: Dominik shares the story and principles behind Vega and Vega-Lite, and explains how visualization and machine learning help each other.---Dominik is a co-author of Vega-Lite, a high-level visualization grammar for building interactive plots. He's also a professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and an ML researcher at Apple.Connect with DominikTwitter: https://twitter.com/domoritzGitHub: https://github.com/domoritzPersonal website: https://www.domoritz.de/---0:00 Sneak peek, intro1:15 What is Vega-Lite?5:39 The grammar of graphics9:00 Using visualizations creatively11:36 Vega vs Vega-Lite16:03 ggplot2 and machine learning18:39 Voyager and the challenges of scale24:54 Model explainability and visualizations31:24 Underrated topics: constraints and visualization theory34:38 The challenge of metrics in deployment36:54 In between aggregate statistics and individual examplesLinks DiscussedVega-Lite: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/Data analysis and statistics: an expository overview (Tukey and Wilk, 1966): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1464291.1464366Slope chart / slope graph: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/line_slope.htmlVoyager: https://github.com/vega/voyagerDraco: https://github.com/uwdata/dracoCheck out the transcription and discover more awesome ML projects:http://wandb.me/gd-domink-moritz---Get our podcast on these platforms:Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts​Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify​Google: http://wandb.me/google-podcasts​YouTube: http://wandb.me/youtube​Soundcloud: http://wandb.me/soundcloud---Join our community of ML practitioners where we host AMA's, share interesting projects and meet other people working in Deep Learning:http://wandb.me/slack​Our gallery features curated machine learning reports by researchers exploring deep learning techniques, Kagglers showcasing winning models, and industry leaders sharing best practices:https://wandb.ai/gallery