Brandeis Visual Analytics Lab
The BraVA lab, led by Dylan Cashman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brandeis University, conducts research into methods of data visualization, data science, and human computer interaction.
In our lab, we seek to empower all users to make the most of their data as easily as possible.
Recent Publications
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VIS
'They Aren't Built For Me': An Exploratory Study of Strategies for Measurement of Graphical Primitives in Tactile Graphics
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2025
'They Aren't Built For Me': An Exploratory Study of Strategies for Measurement of Graphical Primitives in Tactile Graphics.
Areen Khalaila, Lane Harrison, Nam Wook Kim, Dylan Cashman.
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2025
A Critical Analysis of the Usage of Dimensionality Reduction in Four Domains
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2025
A Critical Analysis of the Usage of Dimensionality Reduction in Four Domains.
Dylan Cashman, Mark Keller, Hyeon Jeon, Bum Chul Kwon, Qianwen Wang.
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2025
Are metrics enough? Guidelines for communicating and visualizing predictive models to subject matter experts
Ashley Suh, Gabriel Appleby, Erik W Anderson, Luca Finelli, Remco Chang, Dylan Cashman
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2023
Are metrics enough? Guidelines for communicating and visualizing predictive models to subject matter experts.
Ashley Suh, Gabriel Appleby, Erik W Anderson, Luca Finelli, Remco Chang, Dylan Cashman.
IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. VIS), 2023
EMNLP
Probing the Capacity of Language Model Agents to Operationalize Disparate Experiential Context Despite Distraction
Sonny George, Chris Sypherd, Dylan Cashman
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
Probing the Capacity of Language Model Agents to Operationalize Disparate Experiential Context Despite Distraction.
Sonny George, Chris Sypherd, Dylan Cashman.
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
Updates
August 1, 2025
Two papers will be presented at VIS 2025 in Vienna.
October 12, 2024
Two new posters at VIS 2024.
October 26, 2023
Dylan organized a panel at VIS 2023 in Melbourne, VIC titled How should VIS4ML Redefine Itself in the Rapid Evolution of AI?
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