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Show HN: Flint-interactive, a language for interactive data visualizations (MSR)

By chenglong-hn 3 min read 0 views 0 comments

Since we last built Flint earlier this year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834924), we have been wondering if interactive charts can also find they home in terms of simple high-level specifications to allow AI agents to produce them easily, reliably and with high-quality. I have always been amazed by NYT interactive stories back in school, as they can always tell a fun story without super long verbose text write-ups; thus I have been wondering what if they can just be as easily created as any basic charts to make them easier to create everywhere.Despite the AI models now are more capable of creating interactive artifacts, we find creating interactive charts still kinda annoying (esp. if you are building them to serve users directly in their chat, in your data apps). Agents (especially with smaller models) quite often generate interactions with undesired effects, they are often quite slow, costly, and extremely annoying if to want to steer it to change something. Most times, I find that if I ask the agent to change interaction, it can randomly change style, layout, even the data.We find the issue is that the language agents use to create interactive visualization is kinda…

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