We’re a research group at @MIT_CSAIL using data visualization as a petri dish to study intelligence augmentation.
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HUGE CONGRATS to Dr. Jonathan Zong (@ohnobackspace) for an incredible defense of his dissertation on “Participation and Power in Data Collection and Analysis.”
We will miss you but we’re SO EXCITED to see you become Prof. Zong at @cuinfoscience!! 🎉📈
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Heading to @SciPyConf this week? Learn how to build effective interactive visualizations with @vega_vis in @jonmmease and my tutorial on Vega-Altair.
We’ll demo best practices for data visualization and show how to apply them to your own charts!
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“I’m working on a big idea!”
But… what is a big idea, really? And are we just telling ourselves that to feel better about not publishing? Or superior than others?
Some personal reflections on deep work and big idea:
🔗 ryanyen2.github.io/blog/big-…
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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
#CHI2025 paper on human–AI alignment! 🧵
Models can learn the right concepts but still be wrong in how they relate them.
✨Abstraction Alignment✨evaluates whether models learn human-aligned conceptual relationships.
It reveals misalignments in LLMs💬 and medical datasets🏥.
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#CHI2025 paper on human–AI alignment! 🧵
Models can learn the right concepts but still be wrong in how they relate them.
✨Abstraction Alignment✨evaluates whether models learn human-aligned conceptual relationships.
It reveals misalignments in LLMs💬 and medical datasets🏥.
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Code Shaping just won the Best Paper Award at #CHI25!!! 🥳🎉 Thanks for the recognition!
If you've read the paper or watched my presentation, I’ve put together some insider scoops and untold stories from the making of this project 😉
👉 ryanyen2.github.io/blog/code…
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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 @ieeevis w/ @venkats_14 @tafsiri @donghaoren @domoritz @fredhohman @Apple
🍎machinelearning.apple.com/re…
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I’m so enormously grateful and proud of our BostonVIS students! Within hours of #ieeevis going virtual, they jumped on Zoom and brainstormed a set of satellite events.
Two days later, we’re delighted to announce an initial schedule!!
RSVP + updates: bostonvis.org
Tired of bad alt text? Want screen reader-friendly diagrams?
Join our MIT study on a diagram accessibility tool! Blind and low-vision Mac/Windows screen reader users needed. Test prototypes via Zoom (100 mins) and get $60.
Sign up: forms.gle/YhhiChmxC24uzwqi7
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Doing my PhD alongside @ohnobackspace has been such a wonderful learning experience that I can’t imagine how cool it would be to have him as an advisor
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Excited to be starting @MIT_CSAIL! If you’re in the Cambridge area, feel free to reach out :-) would love to chat developer information management 🤖
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Had a blast discussing how mechanistic interpretability can improve AI safety at #NEMI2024 🤖
Thanks to @davidbau, @tegmark, @kpal_koyena, @ke_li_2021, @ericjmichaud_ & @BrinkmannJannik for bringing us together! And to my amazing co-panelists @OrgadHadas & @DavidSKrueger!
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Spend the day w/an MIT CSAIL PhD student working in data visualization: bit.ly/3AlY3Zw
