Tag Archives: ChatGPT

Top Phrases of 2025 vibed into a contextualized cloud.

Posted on April 12, 2026 by richardbrath

How can we visualize contemporary phrases? Contemporary art suggests possibilities, but there’s a need for additional context. With AI, I find phrases, do semantic grouping, create example sentences, and encode connotative colors, into a composition. This little AI-assisted design project aid reconsideration of design rules regarding layout and color. Continue reading →

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Fitting text into tables: it’s time for AI-gen Tacos

Posted on October 4, 2025 by richardbrath

Trouble fitting text into tables? LLM Taco visualizations can help. Text-Tacos are Textual TAble CartOgrams that bend table gridlines so that cells can show more text. These table cartograms can be generated with AI, although there are challenges describing the layout algorithm to the LLM. Text-Tacos can benefit qualitative data visualization, such as the analysis of customer reviews from surveys. Continue reading →

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Adding 3D to 2D charts with more data (and AI?)

Posted on December 27, 2024 by richardbrath

Effective 3D data visualizations can be created by extending well known 2D charts into 3D with added data. And, AI tools are at the cusp of creating effective 3D data visualizations. 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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The truth was buried deep, like a body in an unmarked grave.

Posted on October 31, 2023 by richardbrath

Metaphors and other advanced linguistic devices have been difficult to process with traditional NLP (Natural Language Processing) software. Understanding metaphors and other linguistic devices becomes even more important with the rise of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT or Bard, … Continue reading →

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Visualizing ChatGPT’s repetitiveness and pirates, arr!

Posted on April 1, 2023 by richardbrath

Like many people, I’ve been prodding ChatGPT with prompts and delighting in showing the non-initiated ChatGPT’s abilities to style answers like a pirate or Ned Flanders or any other distinctive voice. I’ve also noticed that an answer can seem like … Continue reading →

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