Andrew McNutt
Post Doc in HCI / Visualization
I’m an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) and Kahlert School of Computing. Most recently I was a Post Doc at University of Washington with the Interactive Data Lab, before that I did my Ph.D. at UChicago CS where I was advised by Ravi Chugh. During my Ph.D. I was lucky to intern at Tableau Research and Microsoft Research, as well as to receive a Siebel Scholarship.
I’m interested in Human Computer Interaction, Visualization, and Programming Interfaces. More specifically, I like
- Visualization systems: Building grammars, domain-specific languages, and linters for vis and vis adjacent topics
- Interfaces for programming: Improving how we interact with code
- Visualization theories: Forming structures to answer questions like what does it mean for a visualization or tool to be “good”
- Critical/sociotechnical perspectives: Consider questions of context and situatedness
Connecting these domains is an interest in “polite” systems, that is tools that support complex assistance while still allowing you to maintain agency.
More broadly, I am a fan of deserts, zines, and bicycles.
News
- November 2025: ReVISit 2 wins best paper at IEEE VIS 2025!! 🎉🎉🎉
- November 2025: alt.vis was an overflowing font of joy and chaos! Our papers, on Feng Shui and documenting Charts and Measures won 🏆 Most Auspicious 🏆 and 🏆 Most Meta 🏆 awards respectively
- August 2025: A big fall! A full VIS paper (on reVISit), a short VIS paper (on annogram), a VL/HCC short paper (on keyframer), five workshop papers (on a range of topics including teaching critical visualization and the fluid programming language), and a VLDB demo paper.
- July 2025: At long last, our pair of special issues on Critical Data Visualization are out! 🎉 It has a wonderful slate of thoughtful and interesting papers.
- May 2025: 🌀🌀alt.vis is returning to IEEE VIS! Send us your chaos, critiques, and creativity!🌀🌀
Publications
- Towards Scalable Visual Data Wrangling via Direct Manipulation: El Kindi Rezig, Mir Mahathir Mohammad, Nicolas Baret, Ricardo Mayerhofer, Andrew McNutt, Paul Rosen, Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
- ReVISit 2: A Full Experiment Life Cycle User Study Framework: Zach Cutler, Jack Wilburn, Hilson Shrestha, Yiren Ding, Brian C Bollen, Khandaker Abrar Nadib, Tingying He, Andrew McNutt, Lane Harrison, Alexander Lex, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- AnnoGram: An Annotative Grammar of Graphics Extension: Md Dilshadur Rahman, Md Rahat-uz-Zaman, Andrew McNutt, Paul Rosen, Proceedings of IEEE VIS (Short Papers)
- Teaching Critical Visualization: A Field Report: Andrew McNutt, Shiyi He, Sujit Kumar Kamaraj, Purbid Bambroo, Nastaran Jadidi, John Bovard, Chang Han, IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities (EduVIS)
- Charts and Measures: Andrew McNutt, alt.vis
- The Feng Shui of Visualization: Design the Path to SUCCESS and GOOD FORTUNE: Chang Han, Andrew McNutt, alt.vis
- Language-Based Dependency-Tracking for Explorables: Roly Perera, Joseph Bond, Cristina David, Andrew McNutt, Alfonso Piscitelli, LIVE Workshop
- Authoring Tools for Transparent Climate Reporting: Roly Perera, Joseph Bond, Cristina David, Andrew McNutt, Alfonso Piscitelli, ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming for the Planet
- Keyframer: A Design Probe for Exploring LLM Assistance in 2D Animation Design: Tiffany Tseng, Ruijia Cheng, Andrew McNutt, Jeffrey Nichols, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centered Computing (Short Papers)
- Buckaroo: A Direct Manipulation Visual Data Wrangler: Annabelle Warner, Andrew McNutt, Paul Rosen, El Kindi Rezig, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (Demo)
- Critical Data Visualization—Part I/II: Georgia Panagiotidou, Andrew McNutt, Derya Akbaba, Nicole Hengesbach, Miriah Meyer, Computer Graphics & Applications
- Same Data, Different Audiences: Using Personas to Scope a Supercomputing Job Queue Visualization: Connor Scully-Allison, Kevin Menear, Kristin Potter, Andrew McNutt, Katherine E. Isaacs, Dmitry Duplyakin, preprint
- ReVISitPy: Python Bindings for the reVISit Study Framework: Hilson Shrestha, Jack Wilburn, Brian Bollen, Andrew McNutt, Alexander Lex, Lane Harrison, Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization “EuroVis” - Posters
- Accessible Text Descriptions for UpSet Plots: Andrew McNutt, Maggie K McCracken, Ishrat Jahan Eliza, Daniel Hajas, Jake Wagoner, Nate Lanza, Jack Wilburn, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Alexander Lex, Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis)
- Linting is People! Exploring the Potential of Human Computation as a Sociotechnical Linter of Data Visualizations: Anamaria Crisan, Andrew McNutt, Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (alt.chi)
- Slowness, Politics, and Joy: Values That Guide Technology Choices in Creative Coding Classrooms: Andrew McNutt, Sam Cohen, Ravi Chugh, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (SIGCHI)
- Mixing Linters with GUIs: A Color Palette Design Probe: Andrew McNutt, Maureen C. Stone, Jeffrey Heer, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- What Can Interactive Visualization do for Participatory Budgeting in Chicago?: Alex Kale, Danni Liu, Maria Gabriela Ayala, Harper Schwab, Andrew McNutt, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- Considering Visualization Example Galleries: Junran Yang, Andrew McNutt, Leilani Battle, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centered Computing
- How Do Data Analysts Respond to AI Assistance? A Wizard-of-Oz Study: Ken Gu, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Andrew McNutt, Jeffrey Heer, Tim Althoff, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (SIGCHI)
- Only YOU Can Make IEEE VIS Environmentally Sustainable: Elsie Lee-Robbins, Andrew McNutt, alt.vis
- Metrics-Based Evaluation and Comparison of Visualization Notations: Nicolas Kruchten, Andrew McNutt, Michael J. McGuffin, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- Projectional Editors for JSON-Based DSLs: Andrew McNutt, Ravi Chugh, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centered Computing (Short Papers)
- Understanding and Enhancing JSON-based DSL Interfaces for Visualization: Andrew McNutt (advised by Ravi Chugh), Ph.D. Thesis
- Doom or Deliciousness: Challenges and Opportunities for Visualization in the Age of Generative Models: Victor Schetinger, Sara Di Bartolomeo, Mennatallah El-Assady, Andrew McNutt, Matthias Miller, João Paulo Apolinário Passos, Jane L. Adams, Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis)
- On the Design of AI-powered Code Assistants for Notebooks: Andrew McNutt, Chenglong Wang, Rob DeLine, Steven M. Drucker, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (SIGCHI)
- A Study of Editor Features in a Creative Coding Classroom: Andrew McNutt, Anton Outkine, Ravi Chugh, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (SIGCHI)
- No Grammar to Rule Them All: A Survey of JSON-Style DSLs for Visualization: Andrew McNutt, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- Goethe and Candolle: National forms of scientific writing?: Agatha Seo-Hyun Kim, Andrew McNutt , Theory in Biosciences
- Explaining Why: How Instructions and User Interfaces Impact Annotator Rationales When Labeling Text Data: Jamar L. Sullivan, Will Brackenbury, Andrew McNutt, Kevin Bryson, Kwam Byll, Yuxin Chen, Michael Littman, Chenhao Tan, Blase Ur, Proceedings of the North American Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
- Visualization for Villainy: Andrew McNutt, Lilian Huang, Kathryn Koenig, alt.vis
- KondoCloud: Improving Information Management in Cloud Storage via Recommendations Based on File Similarity: Will Brackenbury, Andrew McNutt, Kyle Chard, Aaron Elmore, Blase Ur, ACM Symposium on User Interface Systems and Technologies
- On The Potential of Zines as a Medium for Visualization: Andrew McNutt, Proceedings of IEEE VIS (Short Papers)
- What are Table Cartograms Good for Anyway? An Algebraic Analysis: Andrew McNutt, Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis)
- Integrated Visualization Editing via Parameterized Declarative Templates: Andrew McNutt, Ravi Chugh, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (SIGCHI)
- Supporting Expert Close Analysis of Historical Scientific Writings: A Case Study for Near-by Reading: Andrew McNutt, Agatha Seo-Hyun Kim, Sergio Elahi, Kazutaka Takahashi, Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH)
- A Minimally Constrained Optimization Algorithm for Table Cartograms: Andrew McNutt, Gordon Kindlmann, IEEE InfoVis Posters
- Surfacing Visualization Mirages: Andrew McNutt, Gordon Kindlmann, Michael Correll, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (SIGCHI)
- Divining Insights: Visual Analytics Through Cartomancy: Andrew McNutt, Anamaria Crisan, Michael Correll, Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (alt.chi)
- Design and Analysis of Table Cartograms: Simultaneous Multipurpose Tabular Area-encoding Displays: Andrew McNutt (Advised by Gordon Kindlmann), Masters thesis
- Textual Analysis & Comparison National Forms of Scientific Texts: Goethe + de Candolle: Agatha Seo-Hyun Kim, Andrew McNutt, Sergio Elahi, Kazutaka Takahashi, Robert J Richards, MindBytes Research Symposium
- Improving the Scalability of Interactive Visualization Systems for Exploring Threaded Conversations: Andrew McNutt, Gordon Kindlmann, Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization “EuroVis” - Posters
- Linting for Visualization: Towards a Practical Automated Visualization Guidance System: Andrew McNutt, Gordon Kindlmann, IEEE VIS Workshop on Creation, Curation, Critique and Conditioning of Principles and Guidelines in Visualization (VisGuides)
- Data Mining and Computational Modeling of High-Throughput Screening Datasets: Sean Ekins, Alex M. Clark, Krishna Dole, Kellan Gregory, Andrew McNutt,
Anna Coulon Spektor, Charlie Weatherall, Nadia K Litterman, Barry A Bunin, Reporter Gene Assays
- The Schrodinger-Newton System with Self-field Coupling: Joel Franklin, Youdan Guo, Andrew McNutt, Allison Morgan, Journal of Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Open source Bayesian models. 1. Application to ADME/Tox and drug discovery datasets: Alex M. Clark, Krishna Dole, Anna Coulon-Spektor, Andrew McNutt,
George Grass, Joel S. Freundlich, Robert C. Reynolds, Sean Ekins, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
- Nonequivalent Lagrangian Mechanics: Andrew McNutt (Advised by Nelia Mann), Undergraduate thesis