# Leilani Battle
**Source**: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/publications.html
**Parent**: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/bio.html
- [Bio](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/bio.html)
- [Projects](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/projects.html)
- [Publications](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/publications.html)
- [Experience](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/experience.html)
### Conference Papers and Journal Articles
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Optimizing Dataflow Systems for Scalable Interactive Visualization
Junran Yang, Hyekang Kevin Joo, Sai Yerramreddy, Dominik Moritz, and **Leilani Battle**
(to appear in) SIGMOD 2024
[paper (arXiv preprint)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.02952.pdf)
What Do We Mean When We Say "Insight"? A Formal Synthesis of Existing Theory
**Leilani Battle** and Alvitta Ottley
IEEE TVCG (Oct 2023)
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle2023what.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2023what.bib)
WhaleVis: Visualizing the History of Commercial Whaling
Ameya Patil, Trevor A. Branch, Zoe Rand, and **Leilani Battle**
IEEE VIS 2023
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/patil2023whalevis.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/patil2023whalevis.bib)
How I Met Your Data Science Team: A Tale of Effective Communication
Aayushi Roy, Deepthi Raghunandan, Niklas Elmqvist and **Leilani Battle**
IEEE VL/HCC 2023
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/roy2023how.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/roy2023how.bib)
Too Many Cooks: Exploring How Graphical Perception Studies Influence Visualization Recommendations in Draco
Zehua Zeng, Junran Yang, Dominik Moritz, Jeffrey Heer, and **Leilani Battle**
IEEE VIS 2023
[paper (arXiv preprint)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14241.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/zeng2023too.bib)
Code Code Evolution: Understanding How People Change Data Science Notebooks Over Time
Deepthi Raghunandan, Aayushi Roy, Shenzhi Shi, Niklas Elmqvist and **Leilani Battle**
Best Paper Honorable Mention, CHI 2023
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/raghunandan2023code.pdf) | [OSF Repository](https://osf.io/9q4wp/) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/raghunandan2023code.bib)
A Review and Collation of Graphical Perception Knowledge for Visualization Recommendation
Zehua Zeng and **Leilani Battle**
CHI 2023
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/zeng2023review.pdf) | [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/Zehua-Zeng/graphical-perception-knowledge) | [OSF Repository](https://osf.io/twj3s/) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/zeng2023review.bib)
User-Driven Support for Visualization Prototyping in D3
Hannah K. Bako, Alisha Varma, Anuoluwapo Faboro, Mahreen Haider, Favour Nerrise, Bissaka Kenah, John P Dickerson, and **Leilani Battle**
IUI 2023
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/bako2023user.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/bako2023user.bib)
Understanding how Designers Find and Use Data Visualization Examples
Hannah Bako, Xinyi Liu, **Leilani Battle**, and Zhicheng Liu
VIS 2022
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/bako2022understanding.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/bako2022understanding.bib)
Exploring D3 Implementation Challenges on Stack Overflow
**Leilani Battle**, Danni Feng, and Kelli Webber
Best Paper Award Winner, VIS 2022 -- Short Papers
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle2022exploring.pdf) | [tech report](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.02299.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2022exploring.bib)
Streamlining Visualization Authoring in D3 Through User-Driven Templates
Hannah Bako, Alisha Varma, Anuoluwapo Faboro, Mahreen Haider, Favour Nerisse, Bissaka Kenah, **Leilani Battle**
VIS 2022 -- Short Papers
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/bako2022streamlining.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/bako2022streamlining.bib)
A Grammar-Based Approach to Applying Visualization Taxonomies to Interaction Logs
Sneha Gathani, Shayan Monadjemi, Alvitta Ottley, and **Leilani Battle**
EuroVis 2022
[paper (preprint)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.03740.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/gathani2022grammar.bib)
Recommendations for Visualization Recommendations: Exploring Preferences and Priorities in Public Health.
Calvin Bao, Siyao Li, Sarah Flores, Michael Correll, **Leilani Battle**
CHI 2022
[paper (preprint)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.01335.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/bao2022recommendations.bib)
Kyrix-J: Visual Discovery of Connected Datasets in a Data Lake
Wenbo Tao, Adam Sah, **Leilani Battle**, Remco Chang, and Michael Stonebraker
CIDR 2022
[paper](http://cidrdb.org/cidr2022/papers/p50-tao.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/tao2022kyrixj.bib)
An Evaluation-Focused Framework for Visualization Recommendation Algorithms.
Zehua Zeng, Phoebe Moh, Fan Du, Jane Hoffswell, Tak Yeon Lee, Sana Malik, Eunyee Koh, and **Leilani Battle**
Best Paper Honorable Mention, VIS 2021
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/zeng2021evaluation.pdf) | [OSF repository](https://osf.io/txqsu/) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/zeng2021evaluation.bib)
Vis Ex Machina: An Analysis of Trust in Human versus Algorithmically Generated Visualization Recommendations.
Rachael Zehrung\* and Astha Singhal\*, Michael Correll, and **Leilani Battle**
CHI 2021
[paper (preprint)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.04251) | [OSF repository](https://osf.io/zmnh3/) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/zehrung2021vis.bib)
\* = First authors, contributed equally.
If you want more women in your workforce, here's how to recruit
Emma Pierson,
Elissa M. Redmiles,
**Leilani Battle** and
Jessica Hullman
Nature -- Careers (Aug. 26, 2020)
[article](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02489-w) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/pierson2020if.bib)
A Structured Review of Data Management Technology for Interactive Visualization and Analysis
**Leilani Battle**, Carlos Scheidegger
InfoVis 2020
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle2020structured.pdf) | [project website](http://hdc.cs.arizona.edu/projects/end-to-end-visual-big-data/db-tech-for-interactive-vis/) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2020structured.bib)
Kyrix-S: Authoring Scalable Scatterplot Visualizations of Big Data
Wenbo Tao, Xinli Hou, Adam Sah, **Leilani Battle**, Remco Chang and Michael Stonebraker
InfoVis 2020
[paper (preprint)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.15904.pdf) | [project website](http://dsail.csail.mit.edu/index.php/kyrix/) | [GitHub page](https://github.com/tracyhenry/kyrix) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/tao2020kyrixs.bib)
Database Benchmarking for Supporting Real-Time Interactive Querying of Large Data
**Leilani Battle**, Philipp Eichmann, Marco Angelini, Carsten Binnig, Tiziana Catarci, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Giuseppe Santucci, Dominik Moritz, Yukun Zheng
SIGMOD 2020
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle2020database.pdf) |
[GitHub page](https://github.com/leibatt/crossfilter-benchmark-public) |
[OSF repository](https://osf.io/9xerb/) |
[video presentation (youtube)](https://youtu.be/ABDU0BAJRfw) |
[bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2020database.bib)
Debugging Database Queries: A Survey of Tools, Techniques, and Users
Sneha Gathani, Peter Lim, **Leilani Battle**
CHI 2020
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/gathani_debugging_CHI_2020.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/gathani2020debugging.bib)
A Provenance Task Abstraction Framework
Christian Bors, John Wenskovitch, Michelle Dowling, Simon Attfield, **Leilani Battle**, Alex Endert, Olga Kulyk, and Robert S. Laramee
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (Volume: 39, Issue: 6, Nov.-Dec. 1 2019)
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/bors2019provenance.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/bors2019provenance.bib)
The Role of Latency and Task Complexity in Predicting Visual Search Behavior
**Leilani Battle**, R. Jordan Crouser, Audace Nakeshimana, Ananda Montoly, Remco Chang, and Michael Stonebraker
InfoVis 2019
[paper (preprint)](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle2019role_preprint_07_11_2019.pdf) | [GitHub page](https://github.com/leibatt/latency-visual-search) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2019role.bib)
Smile: A System to Support Machine Learning on EEG Data at Scale.
Lei Cao, Wenbo Tao, Sungtae An, Jing Jin, Yizhou Yan, Xiaoyu Liu, Wendong Ge, Adam Sah, **Leilani Battle**, Jimeng Sun, Remco Chang, Brandon Westover, Samuel Madden, and Michael Stonebraker.
VLDB 2019
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/p734-Cao.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/cao2019smile.bib)
Characterizing Exploratory Visual Analysis: A Literature Review and Evaluation of Analytic Provenance in Tableau
**Leilani Battle** and Jeffrey Heer.
EuroVis 2019
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle_eurovis2019_cr_04_11_2019.pdf) | [video preview](https://youtu.be/c8nZQ1z5sas) | [GitHub page](https://github.com/leibatt/characterizing-eva-tableau) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2019characterizing.bib)
Kyrix: Interactive Pan/Zoom Visualizations at Scale
Wenbo Tao, Xiaoyu Liu, Yedi Wang, **Leilani Battle**, Çagatay Demiralp, Remco Chang, and Michael Stonebraker
EuroVis 2019
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/eurovis19a-sub1035-cam-i5.pdf) | [project website](http://dsail.csail.mit.edu/index.php/kyrix/) | [GitHub page](https://github.com/tracyhenry/kyrix) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/tao2019kyrix.bib)
Beagle: Automated Extraction and Interpretation of Visualizations from the Web
**Leilani Battle**, Peitong Duan, Zachery Miranda, Dana Mukusheva, Remco Chang, and Michael Stonebraker.
CHI 2018
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/CHI2018_cr_battle_02_05_2018.pdf) | [video preview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln-H9c4wiWM) | [dataset page.](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/beagle.html) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2018beagle.bib)
Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization
**Leilani Battle**, Remco Chang, and Michael Stonebraker.
SIGMOD 2016
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/forecache_cr_sigmod2016.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2016dynamic.bib)
Making Sense of Temporal Queries with Interactive Visualization
**Leilani Battle**, Danyel Fisher, Robert DeLine, Mike Barnett, Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein
CHI 2016
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle_streamtrace_chi2016.pdf) | [video preview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6JjuYKLUG4) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2016making.bib)
Skew-Aware Join Optimization for Array Databases.
Jennie Duggan, Olga Papaemmanouil, **Leilani Battle**, and Michael Stonebraker.
SIGMOD 2015
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/duggan2015joins.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/duggan2015skew.bib)
The Case for Data Visualization Management Systems [Vision Paper].
Eugene Wu, **Leilani Battle**, and Samuel R. Madden.
VLDB 2014
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/ermac_final.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/wu2014case.bib)
Database-as-a-Service for Long-Tail Science.
Bill Howe, Garrett Cole, Emad Soroush, Paraschos Koutris, Alicia Key, Nodira Khoussainova, and
**Leilani Battle**.
SSDBM 2011
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/sqlshare_ssdbm2011.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/howe2011database.bib)
Automatic example queries for ad-hoc databases
Bill Howe, Garrett Cole, Nodira Khoussainova, and **Leilani Battle**.
SIGMOD 2011
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/howe_starterqueries.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/howe2011automatic.bib)
Building the Internet of Things Using RFID: The RFID Ecosystem Experience
Evan Welbourne, **Leilani Battle**, Garrett Cole, Kayla Gould, Kyle Rector, Samuel Raymer, Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello
IEEE Internet Computing 13(3): 48-55 (2009)
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/welbourne2009rfid.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/welbourne2009building.bib)
### Workshop and Symposium Papers
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How Do Data Science Workers Communicate Intermediate Results?
Rock Yuren Pang, Ruotong Wang, Joely Nelson, and **Leilani Battle**
[VDS Symposium 2022](http://www.visualdatascience.org/2022/index.html) (co-located with KDD 2021 and VIS 2022)
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/pang2022how.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/pang2022how.bib)
Lodestar: Supporting Independent Learning and Rapid Experimentation Through Data-Driven Analysis Recommendations.
Deepthi Raghunandan, Zhe Cui, Kartik Krishnan, Segen Tirfe, Shenzhi Shi, Tejaswi Shrestha, **Leilani Battle**, and Niklas Elmqvist.
[VDS Symposium 2021](http://www.visualdatascience.org/2021/index.html) (co-located with KDD 2021 and VIS 2021)
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/raghunandan2021lodestar.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/raghunandan2021lodestar.bib)
Leveraging Human Learning in Interactive Data Exploration
Sanad Saha, Arash Termehchy, and **Leilani Battle**.
[CAST 2019](https://cast19.athenarc.gr/) (co-located with VLDB 2019)
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/saha2019leveraging.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/saha2019leveraging.bib)
Evaluating Visual Data Analysis Systems: A Discussion Report.
**Leilani Battle**, Marco Angelini, Carsten Binnig, Tiziana Catarci, Philipp Eichmann, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Giuseppe Santucci, Michael Sedlmair and Wesley Willett.
[HILDA 2018](https://hilda.io/2018/) (co-located with SIGMOD 2018)
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle_visualization-centered-evaluation_hilda_2018.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2018evaluating.bib)
Position Statement: The Case for a Visualization Performance Benchmark
**Leilani Battle**, Remco Chang, Jeffrey Heer, and Michael Stonebraker.
[DSIA Workshop 2017](https://www.interactive-analysis.org/year/2017/) (co-located with VIS 2017)
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/dsia2017cameraready_08_23_2017_11_28.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2017position.bib)
Making Sense of Temporal Queries with Fine-Grained Provenance.
**Leilani Battle**, Danyel Fisher, Mike Barnett, Badrish Chandramouli, Rob DeLine, and Jonathan Goldstein.
Provenance for Sensemaking Workshop (co-located with VIS 2014)
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle_prov4sense2014.pdf)
Dynamic Reduction of Query Result Sets for Interactive Visualization.
**Leilani Battle**, Remco Chang and Michael Stonebraker.
IEEE Workshop on Big Data Visualization 2013
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/scalar-cr.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/battle2013dynamic.bib)
### Theses
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Behavior-Driven Optimization Techniques for Scalable Data Exploration
Doctoral Thesis, MIT EECS, 5/2017
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/leilani_battle_thesis_5_18_2017.pdf)
Interactive Visualization of Big Data Leveraging Databases for Scalable Computation
Masters Thesis, MIT EECS, 8/2013
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/battle_masters_thesis.pdf)
### Technical Reports
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User-Driven Programming Support for Rapid Visualization Authoring in D3
Hannah K. Bako, Alisha Varma, Anuoluwapo Faboro, Mahreen Haider, Favour Nerrise, John P. Dickerson, and **Leilani Battle**
Technical Report (in arXiv): arXiv:2112.03179 [cs.HC], 2021
[arXiv page](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03179)
Exploring Visualization Implementation Challenges Faced by D3 Users
Online
**Leilani Battle**, Danni Feng, and Kelli Webber
Technical Report (in arXiv): arXiv:2108.02299 [cs.HC], 2021
[arXiv page](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02299)
Are We There Yet? A Review on Existing Perceptual Theory and Experiment Support for Visualization Recommendation Systems
Zehua Zeng, Minhui Xie, Matthew Gouzoulis, and **Leilani Battle**
Technical Report (in arXiv): arXiv:2109.01271 [cs.HC], 2021
[arXiv page](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01271)
Beagle: Automated Extraction and Interpretation of Visualizations from the Web
**Leilani Battle**, Peitong Duan, Zachery Miranda, Dana Mukusheva, Remco Chang, Michael Stonebraker
Technical Report (in arXiv): arXiv:1711.05962 [cs.HC], 2017
[arXiv page](https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05962)
Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization
MIT CSAIL Technical Report (in DSpace@MIT): MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-031, 2015
[DSpace page](http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99361)
Indexing Cost Sensitive Prediction
**Leilani Battle**, Edward Benson, Aditya Parameswaran, and Eugene Wu
Technical Report (in arXiv): arXiv:1408.4072 [cs.LG], 2014
[arXiv page](http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4072)
### Miscellaneous
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SciDB DBMS Research at M.I.T..
Michael Stonebraker, Jennie Duggan, **Leilani Battle**, and Olga Papaemmanouil.
Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering (Dec. 2013 Issue)
[paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/ieee_bulletin.pdf) | [bibtex](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/bib/stonebraker2013scidb.bib)
Dynamic Reduction of Query Result Sets for Interactive Visualization [Demonstration].
**Leilani Battle**, Remco Chang and Michael Stonebraker.
XLDB 2013
[poster](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~leibatt/static/papers/poster_final2.pdf)