%0 Journal Article %1 Satyanarayan2017VegaLite %A Satyanarayan, Arvind %A Moritz, Dominik %A Wongsuphasawat, Kanit %A Heer, Jeffrey %C Piscataway, NJ, USA %D 2017 %I IEEE Educational Activities Department %J IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics %K 03d05-automata-and-formal-grammars 68q42-grammars-and-rewriting-systems 68u05-computer-graphics-computational-geometry vega-lite 62-08-computational-methods-for-problems-for-statistics %N 1 %P 341--350 %R 10.1109/tvcg.2016.2599030 %T Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2016.2599030 %V 23 %X We present Vega-Lite, a high-level grammar that enables rapid specification of interactive data visualizations. Vega-Lite combines a traditional grammar of graphics, providing visual encoding rules and a composition algebra for layered and multi-view displays, with a novel grammar of interaction. Users specify interactive semantics by composing selections. In Vega-Lite, a selection is an abstraction that defines input event processing, points of interest, and a predicate function for inclusion testing. Selections parameterize visual encodings by serving as input data, defining scale extents, or by driving conditional logic. The Vega-Lite compiler automatically synthesizes requisite data flow and event handling logic, which users can override for further customization. In contrast to existing reactive specifications, Vega-Lite selections decompose an interaction design into concise, enumerable semantic units. We evaluate Vega-Lite through a range of examples, demonstrating succinct specification of both customized interaction methods and common techniques such as panning, zooming, and linked selection.

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