https://www.vidyasetlur.com/home daily 1.0 2024-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c139c434178b0c2e1d3e57/b7d68740-0ce6-4bf7-9647-dc6520839f91/vidya_headshot.jpg Home Vidya Setlur is the senior director of Tableau Research. She leads an interdisciplinary team of research scientists in areas including data visualization, multimodal interaction, applied ML, and NLP. She earned her doctorate in Computer Graphics in 2005 at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Tableau, she worked as a principal research scientist at the Nokia Research Center for 7 years. Her personal research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing and computer graphics. Since joining Tableau Research in 2012, Vidya has worked on various projects involving data semantics and visual representation. She has been interested in exploring analytical conversation using natural language interaction. As part of productizing Tableau's natural language feature, Ask Data, she moved to engineering and was a manager on the Natural Language Team for a couple of years. https://www.vidyasetlur.com/recent-papers daily 0.75 2022-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c139c434178b0c2e1d3e57/5f23e4a5-c560-4bd8-a071-caef94ce9ecf/Blocks_teaser.png recent papers Blocks: Creating Rich Tables with Drag-and-Drop Interaction, EuroVis 2022, honorable mention award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c139c434178b0c2e1d3e57/80c9aaad-7a28-4e79-9c10-23c033045258/4arrangements_0.jpeg recent papers Visual Arrangements of Bar Charts Influence Comparisons in Viewer Takeaways, VIS 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c139c434178b0c2e1d3e57/72e0a820-d45b-43e5-aa18-936b19660907/chatbot-teaser-chi2022.png recent papers How do you Converse with an Analytical Chatbot? Revisiting Gricean Maxims for Designing Analytical Conversational Behavior, CHI 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c139c434178b0c2e1d3e57/902ab81d-ce31-4eaf-a8d0-fda9f5c7da1c/geosneakpique-teaser.png recent papers GeoSneakPique: Visual Autocompletion for Geospatial Queries, VIS 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c139c434178b0c2e1d3e57/1e937553-e27b-4242-9519-20fe7667be30/figure1_2t.png recent papers Semantic Resizing of Charts Through Generalization: A Case Study with Line Charts, VIS 2021, honorable mention award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c139c434178b0c2e1d3e57/af14a14c-f8fe-4a00-9dae-2e832cddba19/snowy_teaser.png recent papers Snowy: Recommending Utterances for Conversational Visual Analysis, UIST 2021. https://www.vidyasetlur.com/recent-talks daily 0.75 2022-07-04 https://www.vidyasetlur.com/book daily 0.75 2022-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62c139c434178b0c2e1d3e57/428f39c5-fa2c-4eb6-ac4e-8bd63bdb270b/functional_aesthetics_book.jpg book New book in summer of 2022. Bridget Cogley and I have a new book, Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization by Wiley Publishing. You can pre-order the book on Amazon. https://www.vidyasetlur.com/resume daily 0.75 2024-10-23