Widgets that export computational representations

[josevalim]

There is an excellent paper and talk on the matter. Examples we want to consider in the future are:

1. API widget - a widget to the API requests which then emits a library code that does such request

2. Confusion widget - a widget for emitting confusion matrices to compare ML results

3. Chart widget - a widget that builds charts on data and then emits a vegalite specification (Deepnote has something equivalent)

4. Table widget - a widget where you can change the table and it reflects in the dataframe/query

5. SQL widget - a widget that allows you to write SQL and then populates a variable (Hex does something similar)

The chart widget is likely the most straightforward starting point for us (and also one of the most impressive ones).

[josevalim]

This paper is also very interesting: Falx: Synthesis-Powered Visualization Authoring.

[josevalim]

Another one: Wrex: A Unified Programming-by-Example Interaction for Synthesizing Readable Code for Data Scientists

[josevalim]

Two more:

• Lux: Always-on Visualization Recommendations for Exploratory Data Science

• NEO: Generalizing Confusion Matrix Visualization to Hierarchical and Multi-Output Labels

[josevalim]

Also related:

• https://pandastutor.com/ :)
• Unravel: A Fluent Code Explorer for Data Wrangling (✓ as dbg)

[josevalim]

This is an interesting article of using charts to generate Pandas/Explorer queries: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3379337.3415851 (B2: Bridging Code and Interactive Visualization in Computational Notebooks)

Machine Learning specific:

• Symphony: Composing Interactive Interfaces for Machine Learning (includes a 3 paragraph survey of other tools)
• Glinda: Supporting Data Science with Live Programming, GUIs and a Domain-specific Language

[josevalim]

Closing this as we have broken most of it into smaller tasks!