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Re: Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

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Post by natch »

Since it isn’t mentioned on the page, I’ll mention that accessibility is a really important thing to design in when creating data visualizations.

This podcast (I only have a spotify link) has a really good short interview on this:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/18dHTAxCCeIaLOTch6tRld

The interview is with Frank Elavsky who seems to be a rock star in the field (and no, I don’t know him and am not him) and made a project called Chartability relating to this which has heuristics, principles, and guidelines for a11y audits:

https://chartability.github.io/POUR-CAF/

Re: Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

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Post by aitor1717 »

I love this. I'm trying not to go down yet another rabbit hole, but I really want to be able to tell claude code to make a visualization 'like this but just the way you know I like it'.

I'm seeing more attempts at standardizing how AI displays data via presets. It's practical, I guess, and hopefully it will make things less error-prone.

Re: Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

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Post by mr_mitm »

whattheheckheck wrote: post #97
pwarner wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I first saw Claude generating PPT decks by writing Python code instead of making the XML directly, it was sort of an "aha moment" for me. This seems to be the path for many things. It also feels slightly limiting, and like a hack LONG term, but 100% correct approach for a while.

Have you seen marp? https://marp.app/

I've been using slidev recently. How does this compare?

Re: Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

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Post by khurs »

rbalicki wrote: post #27

"For AI agents". I understand why everything needs to be marketed in this way, but it's just ... an easy-to-generate language for expressing charts. That's impressive! That's useful.

And as per packages, built on top of existing charting libraries.

Re: Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

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Post by pea »

kveykva wrote: post #12

Is there a specific explanation about how this is better or different than vega itself? https://vega.github.io/vega/docs/specification/ My understanding is that Vega was already an expressive DSL for visualizations and its probably already well spread through LLM training data.

I was wondering the same for vega-lite, which is relatively high level, declarative, and looks similar to their syntax.
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