Hi, I’m Dominik Moritz

I’m a professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and an ML researcher at Apple . I design and build interactive systems for visualization and analysis. At CMU, I co-lead the Data Interaction Group. Read this if you want to apply for a PhD with me.

I received my PhD from the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington, where I worked with Jeff Heer and Bill Howe in the Interactive Data Lab and the Database Group.

My systems have won awards at premier academic venues and are used by the Python and JavaScript data science communities.

Find me on GitHub, the Fediverse, Bluesky, LinkedIn, or Twitter.

Dominik Moritz

During my first year at UW, I received support from the Fulbright program. In 2013, I received my B.S. from Hasso Plattner Institute. I am a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation. I have worked with the Open Knowledge Foundation, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and others. Details are in my CV.

Draco

I created Draco, a formal model of visualization design with shareable design guidelines, formal reasoning over the design space, and visualization recommendation.

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Mosaic

Mosaic is an extensible framework for linking databases and interactive views.

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Vega-Lite

I am the co-author of Vega-Lite, a high-level visualization grammar for rapid specification of interactive, multi-view graphics.

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Swift Charts

Swift Charts is a framework for informative, delightful, and accessible charts on Apple’s platforms.

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Mosaic: An Architecture for Scalable & Interoperable Data Views Jeffrey Heer, Dominik Moritz. VIS, 2023. Average Estimates in Line Graphs are Biased Toward Areas of Higher Variability Dominik Moritz, Lace Padilla, Francis Nguyen, Steven Franconeri. VIS, 2023.
Best Paper Honorable Mention Data Navigator: An accessibility-centered data navigation toolkit Frank Elavsky, Lucas Nadolskis, Dominik Moritz. VIS, 2023. Dead or Alive: Continuous Data Profiling for Interactive Data Science Will Epperson, Vaishnavi Gorantla, Dominik Moritz, Adam Perer. VIS, 2023.
Best Paper Honorable Mention How accessible is my visualization? Evaluating visualization accessibility with Chartability Frank Elavsky, Cynthia Bennett, Dominik Moritz. EuroVis, 2022. Interactive Systems for Scalable Visualization and Analysis Dominik Moritz. 2019. Falcon: Balancing Interactive Latency and Resolution Sensitivity for Scalable Linked Visualizations Dominik Moritz, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. CHI, 2019. Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco Dominik Moritz, Chenglong Wang, Greg L. Nelson, Halden Lin, Adam M. Smith, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. InfoVis, 2018.
Best Paper Award Voyager 2: Augmenting Visual Analysis with Partial View Specifications Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Zening Qu, Dominik Moritz, Riley Chang, Felix Ouk, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. CHI, 2017. Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics Arvind Satyanarayan, Dominik Moritz, Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Jeffrey Heer. InfoVis, 2017.
Best Paper Award Trust, but Verify: Optimistic Visualizations of Approximate Queries for Exploring Big Data Dominik Moritz, Danyel Fisher, Bolin Ding, Chi Wang. CHI, 2017. Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz, Anushka Anand, Jock Mackinlay, Bill Howe, Jeffrey Heer. InfoVis, 2015.
Invited to SIGGRAPH 2016 Dynamic Client-Server Optimization for Scalable Interactive Visualization on the Web Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer, Bill Howe. DSIA at VIS, 2015.

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