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Free movies (and LLM-aided viz design)

Posted on January 3, 2026 by richardbrath

An LLM-driven exploration of visualizing 800 National Film Registry movies. After failed genre and text-embedding approaches, the author uses LLMs to generate nuanced attributes, cluster films, and design an interactive visualization that reveals meaningful similarities without standard categories, reflecting on strengths and limits of “Team LLM” design iteration. Continue reading →

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Frustrating AI vs Creative Humans

Posted on January 26, 2025 by richardbrath

Sometimes AI is frustrating. And sometimes humans can be much more creative – as seen in sketched visualization tools we published in a recent issue of Nightingale magazine. Continue reading →

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Visualizing with Text from LLMs

Posted on October 6, 2024 by richardbrath

My book, Visualizing with Text, came out just before LLMs. Is it applicable?
I outline a half dozen application areas where LLMs + Viz will be transformative and provide more than a dozen examples from recent work, all leveraging approaches from the book. Continue reading →

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Wobbly Customer Journeys and Business Processes

Posted on June 29, 2024 by richardbrath

We often conceptualize processes as a sequence of steps to achieve a goal: We call these customer processes, such as buying an airplane ticket, a journey, as if it was somehow a straightforward and possibly fun roadtrip. The reality is … Continue reading →

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