Visual Analytics

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Visual analytics studies how people and computational methods can work together to explore complex data, discover patterns, and make decisions. Common approaches include coordinated interactive views, dimensionality-reduction and graph visualizations, provenance tracking, and visual tools for inspecting machine-learning models; newer systems add conversational and agentic workflows. Applications range from scientific discovery and health data to accessible visualization, model debugging, and high-stakes document review. A central challenge is ensuring these systems are not only effective but also interpretable, reliable, accessible, and evaluated for the quality of human reasoning as well as task performance.

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  1. Visualizing and Interpreting Temporal Care Team Dynamics for Cancer Survival Risk Analysis

    Oct 22, 2026Yuhua Huang, Hsiao-Ying Lu, Kwan-Liu MaVisual AnalyticsCancer Survival Prediction

    Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis

  2. Designing for Interpretation Uncertainty: Architecture and Principles for Topological Learning Analytics Dashboards

    Oct 1, 2026Hitoshi Inoue, Koichi YasutakeScientific VisualizationData Visualization

    Nakamura Gakuen University 5-7-1 Befu, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka City, 814-0198 JAPAN · Hiroshima University 1-1-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima City, 734-8524 JAPAN

  3. ContraVis: Evidence-Grounded Visual Analytics for Contradiction Review in Legal Contracts

    Sep 22, 2026Luis Sante, Paula Lima, Mariana Rocha +1LLM Reasoning with GraphsLegal Document Analysis

    School of Applied Mathematics, Fundac¸˜ao Getulio Vargas (FGV)

  4. Spatial Action Review: A Visual Analytics Dashboard for Auditing Language-to-Action Hand-offs in Electron Microscopy

    Sep 21, 2026Samia Mohinta, Albert CardonaHuman-in-the-Loop EvaluationMultimodal QA

    University of Cambridge, UK · MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK

  5. WidgetVA: A Widget-Centric Framework and Benchmark for Agentic Visual Analytics

    Sep 21, 2026Yutong Chen, Zhike Tang, Zhihao Mai +4Tool-Using Vision-Language AgentsVisual Analytics

    Data Science and Analytics Thrust, Information Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Electronics and Information Technology (School of Microelectronics), Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

  6. Lexara-RF: Reference-Free Metrics for Evaluating Conversational Visual Analytics Agents

    Sep 15, 2026Srishti Palani, Vidya SetlurAgent EvaluationVisual Analytics

    Tableau Research, Palo Alto, CA, USA

  7. VisInteract: Towards Dynamic Interactive Text-to-Visualization under Imperfect Queries

    Sep 14, 2026Wenxin Xu, Jinwei Lu, Hwanhee Kim +4Data VisualizationMonte Carlo Tree Search

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · ByteDance

  8. InsightChain: Optimized Chain-of-Insight Analytics for LLM-driven Data Visualization

    Sep 6, 2026Hanya Sun, Chen Zhang, Sheng Liang +2Data VisualizationLLM Prompting

    Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

  9. MIVAIS: A Study Environment for Multi-Agent Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics Applications

    Sep 4, 2026Tobias Stähle, Simon Schneider, Rita Sevastjanova +1Visual AnalyticsHuman-AI Collaboration

    ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  10. TSExplorer: An interactive data annotation and exploration tool for time-series data

    Aug 31, 2026Einari Vaaras, Manu Airaksinen, Okko RäsänenData VisualizationVisual Analytics

    Signal Processing Research Centre, Tampere University, Finland · BABA Center, Department of Physiology, University of Helsinki, Finland

  11. Graphectory Viewer: A Tool for Process-Centric Analysis of Agentic Software Trajectories

    Aug 17, 2026Charlie Jyu, Shuyang Liu, Reyhaneh JabbarvandAgent Trajectory AnalysisVisual Analytics

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, USA

  12. Visualizing Uncertainty-to-Action Composition for Human Oversight

    Aug 17, 2026Chisom Anyabolu, Akshat Dubey, Georges HattabHuman Oversight of AIVisual Analytics

    Robert Koch Institute · Robert Koch Institute Freie Universitat, Berlin

  13. Token Signatures of Code: Comparing Coding Behaviors Across Large Language Models

    Aug 12, 2026Junpeng Wang, Yuzhong Chen, Menghai Pan +2Code Language ModelsLLM Evaluation

    Visa Research

  14. DashArena: Benchmarking LLMs on Interactive Analytic Dashboard Generation

    Aug 11, 2026Xiaotong Wang, Dazhen DengData VisualizationLLM-as-a-Judge

    State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, China · School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University, China

  15. AI Scientist Mission Control (AIMC): Visual Analytics for Human Oversight of Autonomous Scientific Discovery

    Aug 10, 2026Rikathi Pal, Klaus MuellerHuman Oversight of AIAI Agent Monitoring

    Stony Brook University

  16. Walking through Discussions: A Mobile Visual Analytics System for In-Situ Group Discussion Analysis

    Aug 9, 2026Yiping Sun, Ziyao Kang, Wei Zeng +2Educational Data MiningVisual Analytics

    Central South University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  17. SocialFiVis: A Visual Analytics Sandbox for LLM-Grounded Multi-Agent Simulation in Social Finance

    Aug 9, 2026Yi-Fan Cao, Qing Shi, Liangwei Wang +5Multi-Agent LLM SystemsHuman Behavior Simulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) · The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

  18. PaCoNet: Deep Data Extraction for Parallel Coordinates

    Aug 6, 2026Poonam Poonam, Hannah Kniesel, Pere-Pau Vázquez +1Data VisualizationChart Data Extraction

    Ulm University, Germany · Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  19. From Wearable Data to Personalized and Actionable Health Insights

    Aug 4, 2026Esther Brown, Karis Moon, Victoria Dean +1Mental HealthVisual Analytics

    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA · Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

  20. Measuring Distortion in the Empty Regions of Dimensionality Reduction Scatterplots with the Gap Index

    Jul 30, 2026Jaume Ros, Alessio Arleo, Fernando PaulovichData VisualizationVisual Analytics

    Eindhoven University of Technology

  21. Argonaut: Interactive Visual Exploration for Distributed Optimization

    Jul 30, 2026Srijoni Majumdar, Chuhao Qin, Evangelos PournarasMulti-Agent System OptimizationVisual Analytics

    School of Computer Science, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. · School of Energy Systems, LUT University, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland

  22. FloDR: An invertible dimensionality reduction method based on a normalising flow

    Jul 28, 2026Abdallah Baraka, Daniel ProbstData VisualizationVisual Analytics

    Bioinformatics Group Wageningen University & Research Wageningen 6708PB, The Netherlands

  23. Chart-Supported or Model-Supplied? Examining MLLM-Generated Claims for Accessible Visualization

    Jul 27, 2026Ishrat Jahan Eliza, Md Dilshadur RahmanData VisualizationLLM Grounding

    University of Utah

  24. cGAP: Generalized Association Plots with HOMALS-Guided Heatmaps for Visualization of High-Dimensional Categorical Data

    Jul 16, 2026Chun-houh Chen, Shun-Chuan Chang, Chiun-How Kao +5Data VisualizationVisual Analytics

    Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan · Department of Statistics, National Taipei University, New Taipei City, Taiwan · Holistic Education Center, Mackay Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan +4

  25. ImputeViz: A Visual Analytics Dashboard for Diagnosing Missing Data and Comparing Imputation Methods

    Jul 9, 2026Aitik Dandapat, Lalith Punepalle Raveendrareddy, Mithilesh Kumar Singh +1Scientific VisualizationData Visualization

    Stony Brook University

  26. VisTCP: A Visualization Framework to Construct Knowledge-Graph-Based Representation for Traditional Chinese Painting

    Jul 7, 2026Zhiguang Zhou, Fengling Zheng, Miaoxin Hu +9KG ConstructionScene Graph Generation

    School of Media and Design, Hangzhou Dianzi University · School of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University · State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University +1

  27. From Interaction to Intent: Inferring User Objectives from Provenance Logs

    Jul 5, 2026Steffen Holter, Tobias Stähle, Arpit Narechania +1Data VisualizationIntent Classification

    ETH Zurich · Zurich, Switzerland · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1

  28. Understanding How Humans Inject Knowledge into Machine Learning Workflows through Visual Analytics

    Jul 1, 2026Yiwen Xing, Philip Beaucamp, Joyraj Chakraborty +6Data VisualizationHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    University of Oxford, UK · Istanbul Technical University, Turkey · Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK +2

  29. Visualizing High-Dimensional Graph Embeddings via Informed Multi-View Projections

    Jun 30, 2026Ya Ji, Xuefeng Li, Timo Brand +4Scientific VisualizationData Visualization

    Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Seattle · School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany

  30. A Multi-Attribute Latent Space for Visual Analysis of Watches

    Jun 26, 2026Kai Lawonn, Tobias Günther, Monique MeuschkeData VisualizationManifold Learning

    Leipzig University and ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig · Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg