Open Source Friday - [LIDA] - [02-16-2024]

victordibia commented 7 months ago

Name

Victor Dibia

GitHub Handle

@victordibia

Project Name

LIDA - Automatic Generation of Visualizations and Infographics using Large Language Models

Project Repo

https://github.com/microsoft/lida

Stream Date

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Dates

02-16-2024

Twitter URL

@vykthur

LinkedIn URL

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dibiavictor/

Additional Information

Abstract

Systems that support users in the automatic creation of visualizations must address several subtasks - understand the semantics of data, enumerate relevant visualization goals and generate visualization specifications.
LIDA, is a tool for generating visualizations and infographics. LIDA comprises of 4 modules - A SUMMARIZER that converts data into a rich but compact natural language summary, a GOAL EXPLORER that enumerates visualization goals given the data, a VISGENERATOR that generates, refines, executes and filters visualization code and an INFOGRAPHER module that yields data-faithful stylized graphics using IGMs.

LIDA provides a python api, a web api and a hybrid user interface (direct manipulation and multilingual natural language) for interactive chart, infographics and data story generation.

pip install lida

from lida import Manager

lida = Manager()
summary = lida.summarize("data/cars.json") # generate data summary 
goals = lida.goals(summary, n=5, persona="ceo with aerodynamics background") # generate goals
# generate charts (generate and execute visualization code)
charts = lida.visualize(summary=summary, goal=goals[0], library="matplotlib") # seaborn, ggplot ..