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Show HN: Data Formulator – AI-powered data visualization from Microsoft Research
Creating data visualizations with AI nowadays often means chat, chat and more chats...and writing long prompts can be annoying while they are also not the most effective way to describe your visualization designs.

Data Formulator blends UI interaction with natural language so that you can create visualizations with AI much more effectively!

You can:

* create rich visualizations beyond initial datasets, where AI helps transforming and visualizing data along the way

* iterate your designs and dive deeper using data threads, a new way to manage your conversation with AI.

Here is a demo video: https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator/releases/tag/0....

Give it a shot and let us know how it looks like!

  • matt3D
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After giving it a whirl I'm a little underwhelmed, but maybe I'm using it wrong. I'm getting less consistent results than if I prompted GPT4-o for a Vega graph after providing it with the documentation.
  • goose-
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Since Data Formulator performs data transformation on your behalf to get the desired visualization, how can we verify those transformations are not contaminated by LLM hallucinations, and ultimately, the validity of the visualization?
  • larodi
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We can’t. Without the driver this car runs on probability. And that all. A capable operator is still needed in the loop.
Definitely looks like something that could save me, and others, allot of time. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing and provide open source version! This is great!
way cool! I hope to take it for a spin tomorrow!

Q: Does your team see potential value in a DSL for succinctly describing visualizations to an LLM as Hex did with their DSL for Vega-lite specs [1]?

[1]: https://hex.tech/blog/making-ai-charts-go-brrrr/

Wow, that's pretty cool! I think there are potential -- current LLMs are not that good on VegaLite when I ask it to edit the script :)
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