A good data visualization is not only a distortion-free graphical representation of data but also a way to reveal underlying statistical properties of the data. Despite its common use across various stages of data analysis, selecting a good visualization often is a manual process involving many iterations. Recently there has been interest in reducing this effort by developing models that can recommend visualizations, but they are of limited use since they require large training samples (data and visualization pairs) and focus primarily on the design aspects rather than on assessing the effectiveness of the selected visualization. In this paper, we present VizAI, a generative-discriminative framework that first generates various statistical properties of the data from a number of alternative visualizations of the data. It is linked to a discriminative model that selects the visualization that best matches the true statistics of the data being visualized. VizAI can easily be trained with minimal supervision and adapts to settings with varying degrees of supervision easily. Using crowd-sourced judgements and a large repository of publicly available visualizations, we demonstrate that VizAI outperforms the state of the art methods that learn to recommend visualizations.

本文介绍了一种名为VizAI的生成-判别框架，该框架首先从多种数据可视化中生成数据的各种统计属性，并与判别模型相连，以选择最匹配被可视化的数据真实统计数据的可视化方式。使用众包判断和大量公开可用的可视化，我们证明VizAI优于学习推荐可视化的最新方法。

VizAI: 选择准确的数值数据可视化