data visualization
2 published articles
Tools & Frameworks4 min read
Frameworks & Tools
Microsoft's Flint hides the chart boilerplate so AI agents stop drawing wrong axes
Microsoft Research introduced Flint, a visualization intermediate language that helps LLMs and AI agents create polished charts without hand-coding low-level parameters like scales and axis formatting. In a study across three models, Flint outperformed direct Vega-Lite generation, and is already used internally in Data Formulator.
2026-07-08
Open Source2 min read
Open source
Microsoft just opened a codebase that kills the worst part of enterprise data work
Data Formulator 0.7 is an open-source AI system from Microsoft Research that helps enterprise teams connect fragmented data sources, prepare and analyze data with context-aware agents, and iteratively refine visualizations in a shared workspace, all without requiring SQL or programming skills.
2026-07-03