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March 13, 2026
This lecture covers:
• Text, visualization, and their combination
• The role of language in information visualization
• How to decide what to express via language vs via visualization
• How to choose what kind of text to use when creating visualizations, and does that choice matter?
• Does anyone prefer text over visuals, under what circumstances, and why?
• How multimodal large language models figure into this

To follow along with the seminar schedule, visit: https://hci.stanford.edu/

Marti Hearst is a Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Computer Science Division.