Dominik Moritz

@dom@vis.social
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Professor at CMU HCII (where I co-direct @cmudig) and ML researcher at . I build visualization tools and systems for interactive analysis for everyone.
Homepagehttps://www.domoritz.de
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Very excited for all of the nice things Foundation Model access unlocks in iOS 26. Makes things like automatic tag suggestion in Crouton super smooth.
@dave_andersen Home assistant is so much fun and so flexible. Nice application!

Here is my #chi2025 paper explorer. Visually explore papers by similarity, search for an specific topic or even find what specific sessions to attend. Please let me know what you think! #dataviz @chi

👉🏼 https://johnguerra.co/viz/chi2025Papers/ 👈🏼

CHI2025 Paper Explorer

Coworker: ...and the IP address are compared with a string match.
Me: grinning manically
Coworker: Why are you looking at me like that?
Me: Open up a terminal and type ping 4.2.514 and hit enter.
Coworker: ...what's the fourth number?
Me: grin widens Just hit enter.
Coworker: WTF!?

I’m at @chi 🌸 next week so come and say hi 👋.

My group, the @cmudig, has a few presentation you don’t want to miss https://dig.cmu.edu/2025/03/21/chi2025.html.

We will also have awesome folks from Apple 🍎 in Yokohama. Check out https://machinelearning.apple.com/updates/apple-at-chi-2025.

DIG Lab at CHI 2025

DIG lab members are a part of papers that will be presented at ACM CHI in 2025. Come say hi to Venkat, Will, Yanna, Arpit, and Dominik in Yokohama!

CMU Data Interaction Group

New blog post out (finally) ✨ I tested the dataviz accessibility of the 2024 presidential election dashboards, and (as expected) found a lot of issues to write about:

https://fossheim.io/writing/posts/2024-dataviz-a11y-elections/

#dataviz #accessibility

Dataviz accessibility principles, demonstrated by the 2024 presidential election dashboards. by Sarah L. Fossheim

I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility princples, and explained where things went wrong (including lots of demos).

@pg I'd like more!
This is a great example of why the web rocks. Safari and Chrome disagreed on the spec, so we ended up with a third, better spec. This wouldn't happen if one company controlled everything: https://webkit.org/blog/16587/item-flow-part-1-a-new-unified-concept-for-layout/
Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout

CSS Grid and Flexbox brought incredible layout tools to the web, but they don’t yet do everything a designer might want.

WebKit
@pg community engagement like sponsoring a conference or hiring someone would be the biggest expenses. Server costs or buying energy drinks are peanuts.
Super excited that Vega is now a NumFocus sponsored project. Announcement at https://bsky.app/profile/vega-vis.bsky.social/post/3lkqhrlro6c2y.
Vega, Vega-Lite, and Altair (@vega-vis.bsky.social)

Vega (Vega, Vega-Lite, Altair, etc) is now a @numfocus.bsky.social sponsored project. We are excited to continue advancing the visualization and data science ecosystem together on this sustainable foundation. Plus, you can now sponsor Vega's development: https://app.hubspot.com/payments/GyPC972GD9Rt?referrer=PAYMENT_LINK https://numfocus.org/sponsored-projects

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