Weekly meeting
Fridays, 12–1 PM
Join the Cal Poly Data Design Lab for regular project updates, research discussion, and informal collaboration.
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Cal Poly Data Design Lab
Human-centered data science, visualization, and HCI.
We study how people make sense of data and build tools that help communities, researchers, and practitioners analyze, visualize, and communicate with data. Our work sits at the intersection of data science, data visualization, and human-computer interaction.
Regular lab meetings
Ongoing projects
Ongoing · 2026–present
Multimodal Visualization Authoring
Exploring How Students Design Visualizations with Integrated Sketching, Natural Language, and Code Editing
Ongoing · 2026–present
Interactive Synthetic Data Tool for User Evaluation of Exploratory Data Analysis Methods
Developing a tool to study how well dimensionality reduction techniques enable effective truth tracking data exploration when given to actual users.
Ongoing · 2026–present
Interactive Visualization of Bayes Networks
Developing an interactive visualization tool for Probabilistic Graphical Models as an interface towards general purpose probabilistic programing in a visual mode. Ongoing work includes both tool design and development as well as empirical studies to understand the strengths and weaknesses of visual as opposed to code based workflows.
Affiliated people
Faculty
Dr. Austin P. Wright
My research in Scientific Human-Centered Machine Learning aims to solve problems intersecting machine learning, human-computer interaction, and scientific computing, by using a strong basis in both mathematical and human centered principles in deep collaboration with scientists to develop tools with usability, interpretability, and scientific impact.
