Congratulations to IDL alum Dominik Moritz for winning a VGTC Significant New Researcher award!! A premier honor for early career researchers in visualization!

HUGE congrats to Dominik Moritz!! It's been such a pleasure and honor to work with you since the early days of Vega, Vega-Lite & Altair. Here's to many more years of conversation and collaboration 🍻

I added a live demo of the Bucakroo Styling Gallery using PyCafe . It's a great tool for library authors to let potential users quickly experiment with their project. py.cafe/paddymul/bucka…

In an age of LARGE models, how do we support people in making them SMALLER? Compress and Compare is an interactive visual system tackling this question! Check it out tomorrow IEEE VIS w/ Venkat Sivaraman Yannick Assogba Donghao Ren Dominik Moritz Fred Hohman Apple 🍎machinelearning.apple.com/research/compr…

been a bit heads down writing up my dissertation, but delighted to share our anywidget papers are now published!

Do you work with text data for your job or research? We’d love to talk to you! We're running a paid user study at CMU to understand how people explore and visualize text data while programming—and to gather feedback on our new open-source visualization tool. Details below 👇

After 5 years in the making, I'm very happy to finally release Anime.js v4, my dream animation library: 🧩 New modular API ⚡️ Highly performant 🖱️ Scroll-linked animations 🫵 Draggables ↔️ Responsive ✨ Additive animations 🪽 WAAPI support And so much more! Link below👇

I’ll be at #CHI2025 🌸 If you are excited about interpretability and human-AI alignment — let’s chat! And come see Abstraction Alignment ⬇️ in the Explainable AI paper session on Monday at 4:20 JST

Saw the practice talk- it’s excellent. Don’t miss this!

Heading to SciPyConf this week? Learn how to build effective interactive visualizations with Vega, Vega-Lite & Altair in Jon Mease and my tutorial on Vega-Altair. We’ll demo best practices for data visualization and show how to apply them to your own charts!

#SciPy2025, here we go! Getting ready to host the Vega, Vega-Lite & Altair Altair tutorial with Dylan Wootton

happy to finally share what we've been cooking 🍳

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today: Notebook Kit, an open notebook file format and tooling for building static sites; and Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

Looking for PhD positions in the AI+HCI space? Want to work on research around LLM evals, tooling, interfaces and optimization? Contact us! We’re hiring one PhD student for the upcoming year.

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I used v0.dev/gpt5 to democratize this power (it's so good, basically one-shotted)

coding with gpt5 before the performance nerf hits

so cool to see this launch. there's such a rich design space of ai companions and this is a great investigation of it

Fall semester is starting, and many universities are rolling out AI engineering courses. If you teach an AI engineering course at your university, email me at [email protected] or DM me for a free copy of our 11-chapter, 166-page course reader to share with your

Ever cry while cutting an onion? Well, now you don’t have to! Building off of chef J. Kenji López-Alt, we found the mathematically optimal way to dice an onion. *Cutting uniform pieces has not been proven to reduce crying, but you do get bragging rights. pudding.cool/2025/08/onions/