Building powerful and intuitive data visualization tools with Vega-Lite’s Dominik Moritz

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 Dominik Twitter: GitHub: Personal website: 0:00 Sneak peek, intro 1:15 What is Vega-Lite? 5:39 The grammar of graphics 9:00 Using visualizations creatively 11:36 Vega vs Vega-Lite 16:03 ggplot2 and machine learning 18:39 Voyager and the challenges of scale 24:54 Model explainability and visualizations 31:24 Underrated topics: constraints and visualization theory 34:38 The challenge of metrics in deployment 36:54 In between aggregate statistics and individual examples Links Discussed Vega-Lite: Data