@mitvis

We’re a research group at @MIT_CSAIL using data visualization as a petri dish to study intelligence augmentation.

vis.csail.mit.edu
Joined July 2018
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HUGE CONGRATS to Dr. @joshmpollock for defending his incredibly forward-looking thesis “GoMG: A Grammar of More Graphics!” 🎉📈📊🐟 We’re so excited for all the new lines of research and practice his work opens up!! Try it out: gofish.graphics
Josh standing at a podium in a conference room. There is a whiteboard and projector screen behind him. The screen is displaying a slide depicting an illustration of The Visualization Archipelago comprising UI Component City, Diagramville, Chart Kingdom, and Screen Navlantis.

ALT Josh standing at a podium in a conference room. There is a whiteboard and projector screen behind him. The screen is displaying a slide depicting an illustration of The Visualization Archipelago comprising UI Component City, Diagramville, Chart Kingdom, and Screen Navlantis.

Josh standing at a podium in a conference room. There is a whiteboard and projector screen behind him. The screen is displaying a slide depicting how the chapter’s of Josh’s thesis bridges the islands of The Visualization Archipelago: Bluefish bridges UI Component City and Diagramville; GoFish to Chart Kingdom; and Benthic to Screen Navlantis.

ALT Josh standing at a podium in a conference room. There is a whiteboard and projector screen behind him. The screen is displaying a slide depicting how the chapter’s of Josh’s thesis bridges the islands of The Visualization Archipelago: Bluefish bridges UI Component City and Diagramville; GoFish to Chart Kingdom; and Benthic to Screen Navlantis.

Josh standing at a podium in a conference room. There is a whiteboard and projector screen behind him. The screen is displaying a slide depicting an illustration of a future universal grammar where Visualization is no longer a set of archipelagos but a unified land with different neighborhoods.

ALT Josh standing at a podium in a conference room. There is a whiteboard and projector screen behind him. The screen is displaying a slide depicting an illustration of a future universal grammar where Visualization is no longer a set of archipelagos but a unified land with different neighborhoods.

Josh cutting a carrot cake to celebrate a successful defense!

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SciPyConf@SciPyConfJul 8
📊 Talk Spotlight: @joshmpollock introduces GoFish — a Grammar of More Graphics! Go beyond the Grammar of Graphics to compose custom visual structures that Altair & matplotlib can't easily express. 🐟 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
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Angie Boggust@angie_boggustJun 7
Check out my talk here: youtu.be/Mnq_b_YXnDM

Reconciling AI Representations and User Mental Models

Angie Boggust PhD Thesis DefenseMIT CSAIL, May 14, 2026AI models...

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Angie Boggust@angie_boggustJun 7
My PhD has been some of the most fun I've ever had, and that's almost entirely thanks to my incredible colleagues @mitvis, collaborators @MIT_CSAIL, and committee — @arvindsatya1, @wattenberg, and @mitchellgordon!
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Angie Boggust@angie_boggustJun 7
I defended! 🎉 For the past six years, I have studied whether AI models see the world the same way as their users. My dissertation, "Reconciling AI Representations and User Mental Models," gives people the agency to define, measure, and adjust human-AI alignment in their domain.
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HUGE CONGRATS to Dr. @angie_boggust for a masterful defense of her thesis on “Reconciling AI Representations and User Mental Models” 🎉🍾🥂 We are going to miss you dearly at @mitvis 🥲
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Angie Boggust@angie_boggustApr 22
Check out our autointerp paper ✨Semantic Regexes ✨at ICLR on Friday April 24! @MIT_CSAIL and @Apple with @donghaoren, @tafsiri, @domoritz, @arvindsatya1 & @fredhohman 📅 iclr.cc/virtual/2026/poster/… 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.06378 🖥️ github.com/apple/ml-semantic… 🔗 machinelearning.apple.com/re…
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Josh Pollock
@joshmpollockMar 17
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Josh Pollock
@joshmpollockMar 17
color scales landing in gofish this week!
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Josh Pollock
@joshmpollockJan 2
Hello! New blog post about connections between external representations: joshmpollock.com/blog/extern…

On the Interconnectedness of External Representations

We often think of external representations as separate islands. We have charts over here, diagrams over there, maps over there, and so on. I don’t really view it that way. I enjoy finding bridges...

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Dylan Wootton @ COLM 2026
@WoottonDylan5 Nov 2025
Come learn from Josh about how graphical operators enable some incredibly expressive vis design! This work has been incredibly influential in shaping how we’ve been thinking of the future of visualization grammars at @mitvis. 3:45 pm in Hall M2 #ieeevis #VIS26
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@joshmpollock30 Oct 2025
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Ryan Yen@ryanyen2230 Oct 2025
The most high quality poster Ive ever seen
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@joshmpollock30 Oct 2025
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Josh Pollock
@joshmpollock30 Sep 2025
bet
Arnav Verma@ArnavVerma0_030 Sep 2025
Personally I think my scrap paper chart looks better
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Arnav Verma@ArnavVerma0_030 Sep 2025
Personally I think my scrap paper chart looks better
Josh Pollock
@joshmpollock30 Sep 2025
charts should have drop shadows
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Josh Pollock
@joshmpollock30 Sep 2025
charts should have drop shadows
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Dylan Wootton @ COLM 2026
@WoottonDylan6 Jul 2025
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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Josh Pollock
@joshmpollock2 Jul 2025
Added a tutorial to the website!
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Josh Pollock
@joshmpollock16 Jun 2025
new charting library is baking
two by three grid: bar chart, horizontal bar chart, stacked bar chart, grouped bar chart, streamgraph, stacked area chart

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Ryan Yen@ryanyen225 Jun 2025
“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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