From Visual Thinking to Artificial Intelligence
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Presented by CSAIL Human Computer Interaction Group, and MIT MAD

How can we make people smarter? How can we understand computers that appear to be smart themselves? We’ll discuss how data visualization, a broad and expressive medium, can play both of these roles. We’ll touch on some of the visual techniques for powerful exploratory data analysis that look at different kinds of rich data such as text and images. Through a series of examples we will then discuss how visualization can shed light on how AI works, and how using this lens can broaden participation in the field of AI.