Arpit Narechania
@arpitnarechania.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at HKUST. CS PhD from Georgia Tech. I build cool things leveraging data visualizations, human-computer interaction (HCI), and artificial intelligence (AI).
Website: https://narechania.com
Email: arpit@ust.hk
Website: https://narechania.com
Email: arpit@ust.hk
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Tech Visualization Lab, where I was advised by Dr. Alex Endert.
I am now an Assistant Professor at HKUST, where I direct the DataVisards lab. We "build cool tools" using visual analytics, HCI, and AI. Come join us!
I am now an Assistant Professor at HKUST, where I direct the DataVisards lab. We "build cool tools" using visual analytics, HCI, and AI. Come join us!
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Tech Visualization Lab, where I was advised by Dr. Alex Endert.
I am now an Assistant Professor at HKUST, where I direct the DataVisards lab. We "build cool tools" using visual analytics, HCI, and AI. Come join us!
I am now an Assistant Professor at HKUST, where I direct the DataVisards lab. We "build cool tools" using visual analytics, HCI, and AI. Come join us!
You can read this dissertation at narechania.com/docs/arpit_n....
I particularly encourage you to read the Acknowledgements chapter to get to know everyone who played a part in this quest and how.
I particularly encourage you to read the Acknowledgements chapter to get to know everyone who played a part in this quest and how.
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
You can read this dissertation at narechania.com/docs/arpit_n....
I particularly encourage you to read the Acknowledgements chapter to get to know everyone who played a part in this quest and how.
I particularly encourage you to read the Acknowledgements chapter to get to know everyone who played a part in this quest and how.
🏆 Incredibly honored to receive the 2025 IEEE VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award for my Ph.D. thesis titled "Designing, Developing, and Democratizing Guidance for Visual Analytics."
I accepted this award at the #ieeevis conference last week in Vienna.
I accepted this award at the #ieeevis conference last week in Vienna.
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🏆 Incredibly honored to receive the 2025 IEEE VGTC Visualization Dissertation Award for my Ph.D. thesis titled "Designing, Developing, and Democratizing Guidance for Visual Analytics."
I accepted this award at the #ieeevis conference last week in Vienna.
I accepted this award at the #ieeevis conference last week in Vienna.
Thrilled to share Exploropleth - our new #GIS #dataviz tool.
💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!
🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!
exploropleth.github.io
💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!
🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!
exploropleth.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Thrilled to share Exploropleth - our new #GIS #dataviz tool.
💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!
🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!
exploropleth.github.io
💡 @Mapmakers, you can simultaneously explore & compare 16+ data binning methods on a choropleth map, directly in your browser!
🎓 @Instructors, you can use the tool to teach how choropleth maps can mislead people!
exploropleth.github.io
🙏 Big thanks to my coauthors: Alex Endert from the Georgia Tech Visualization Lab & Atanu R Sinha from Adobe Research.
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00682
📹 Video Overview: youtu.be/ASgLVAljtHk
🎙️ Recorded Talk: youtu.be/eh1WVYl25Dk
(6/6)
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00682
📹 Video Overview: youtu.be/ASgLVAljtHk
🎙️ Recorded Talk: youtu.be/eh1WVYl25Dk
(6/6)
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🙏 Big thanks to my coauthors: Alex Endert from the Georgia Tech Visualization Lab & Atanu R Sinha from Adobe Research.
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00682
📹 Video Overview: youtu.be/ASgLVAljtHk
🎙️ Recorded Talk: youtu.be/eh1WVYl25Dk
(6/6)
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00682
📹 Video Overview: youtu.be/ASgLVAljtHk
🎙️ Recorded Talk: youtu.be/eh1WVYl25Dk
(6/6)
💡 Participants could request guidance from their assigned guidance source, in the form of attribute recommendations, one by one, up to 10 times.
We held the quality of guidance constant across all sources (7 relevant & 3 irrelevant recommendations, randomly sequenced)
(3/6)
We held the quality of guidance constant across all sources (7 relevant & 3 irrelevant recommendations, randomly sequenced)
(3/6)
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
💡 Participants could request guidance from their assigned guidance source, in the form of attribute recommendations, one by one, up to 10 times.
We held the quality of guidance constant across all sources (7 relevant & 3 irrelevant recommendations, randomly sequenced)
(3/6)
We held the quality of guidance constant across all sources (7 relevant & 3 irrelevant recommendations, randomly sequenced)
(3/6)
🎯 We conducted a study with 5 conditions:
1. 🤖 AI
2. 🧙 Human Expert
3. 🧑🤝🧑 Group of Analysts
4. 💡 Unattributed Guidance (no source attribution)
5. ❌ No Guidance (control)
We tasked participants to analyze a dataset, select relevant attributes & make #dataviz for a biz report.
(2/6)
1. 🤖 AI
2. 🧙 Human Expert
3. 🧑🤝🧑 Group of Analysts
4. 💡 Unattributed Guidance (no source attribution)
5. ❌ No Guidance (control)
We tasked participants to analyze a dataset, select relevant attributes & make #dataviz for a biz report.
(2/6)
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🎯 We conducted a study with 5 conditions:
1. 🤖 AI
2. 🧙 Human Expert
3. 🧑🤝🧑 Group of Analysts
4. 💡 Unattributed Guidance (no source attribution)
5. ❌ No Guidance (control)
We tasked participants to analyze a dataset, select relevant attributes & make #dataviz for a biz report.
(2/6)
1. 🤖 AI
2. 🧙 Human Expert
3. 🧑🤝🧑 Group of Analysts
4. 💡 Unattributed Guidance (no source attribution)
5. ❌ No Guidance (control)
We tasked participants to analyze a dataset, select relevant attributes & make #dataviz for a biz report.
(2/6)
❓Do people’s perception & utilization of guidance change during analysis if they know its source, e.g., if it came from 🤖AI, 🧙Human Expert, or 🧑🤝🧑Group of Human Analysts?
✨Thrilled to share our new #iui2025 paper, presented last week at ACM IUI in Cagliari, Italy.
(1/6)
✨Thrilled to share our new #iui2025 paper, presented last week at ACM IUI in Cagliari, Italy.
(1/6)
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
❓Do people’s perception & utilization of guidance change during analysis if they know its source, e.g., if it came from 🤖AI, 🧙Human Expert, or 🧑🤝🧑Group of Human Analysts?
✨Thrilled to share our new #iui2025 paper, presented last week at ACM IUI in Cagliari, Italy.
(1/6)
✨Thrilled to share our new #iui2025 paper, presented last week at ACM IUI in Cagliari, Italy.
(1/6)