{"id":599826,"date":"2019-07-25T23:29:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=599826"},"modified":"2019-07-25T23:29:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:29:35","slug":"text-to-viz","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/text-to-viz\/","title":{"rendered":"Text-to-Viz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>DO YOU KNOW<\/h1>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;border-spacing: inherit\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;width: 9.05689%;border: inherit;vertical-align: middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-599871\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image17-300x276.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image17-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image17.png 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 60px) 100vw, 60px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 20px;width: 90.8683%;border: inherit;vertical-align: middle\">\n<h3>People remember 80% of what they see, only 20% of what they read<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;width: 9.05689%;border: inherit;vertical-align: middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-599874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image2-300x271.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image2-300x271.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image2.png 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 60px) 100vw, 60px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 20px;width: 90.8683%;border: inherit;vertical-align: middle\">\n<h3>An infographic is 30x more likely to be read than pure text<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;width: 9.05689%;border: inherit;vertical-align: middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-599868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image3-300x276.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image3-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image3.png 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 60px) 100vw, 60px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 20px;width: 90.8683%;border: inherit;vertical-align: middle\">\n<h3>People are 17% more likely to be persuaded by imagery content<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>PROJECT DESCRIPTION<\/h1>\n<h3>Information graphics (infographics) can effectively deliver messages in an engaging and memorable fashion. Hence, they have now gained tremendous popularity in presentations, documents, dashboards, etc. However, as a task usually requiring high-level design creativity and good proficiency with graphic design tools, authoring a professional infographic remains a challenge for information workers. We proposed Text-to-Vis to lower the access barrier for them, as well as to unleash and inspire their creativity. With natural language statements as input, Text-to-Vis can automatically generate a diverse set of infographics that can well convey the information in the text. Text-to-Vis allows information workers to achieve expressive and compelling infographics effortlessly, and use them to enhance and enrich their presentations and documents.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>APPROACH<\/h1>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;border-spacing: inherit\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27%;padding: inherit;text-align: center\">\n<h2>STATEMENT<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 9.5%;padding: inherit;text-align: center\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27%;padding: inherit;text-align: center\">\n<h2>TECHNOLOGY<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 9.5%;padding: inherit;text-align: center\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27%;padding: inherit;text-align: center\">\n<h2>INFOGRAPHICS<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 27%;padding: inherit;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\">\n<h3>&#8220;More than 20% of smartphone users are social network users&#8221;<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 9.5%;padding: inherit;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-599898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/arr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"83\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27%;padding: inherit;text-align: center;background-color: #f2a40d;vertical-align: middle\">\n<h3>Natural language analysis<\/h3>\n<h3>Visualization synthesis<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 9.5%;padding: inherit;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-599898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/arr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"83\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27%;padding: inherit;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-599904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/output-300x128.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/output-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/output.png 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h1>EXAMPLES<\/h1>\n<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-8-24\" >\n\t\t<h3>3 in 5 Chinese people live in rural areas<\/h3><p>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-8-24\" >\n\t\t<\/p><h3>76% of students find math difficult<\/h3><p>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-8-24\" >\n\t\t<\/p><h3>40% of USA fresh water use is for agriculture<\/h3><p>\t<\/div>\n\t<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<br \/>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-8-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-599847 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3peoplechina-300x125.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3peoplechina-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3peoplechina-665x280.png 665w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3peoplechina.png 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> \t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-8-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-599850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/students-300x102.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/students-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/students.png 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-8-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-599844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/water-300x114.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/water-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/water.png 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information graphics (infographics) can effectively deliver messages in an engaging and memorable fashion. Hence, they have now gained tremendous popularity in presentations, documents, dashboards, etc. However, as a task usually requiring high-level design creativity and good proficiency with graphic design tools, authoring a professional infographic remains a challenge for information workers. We proposed Text-to-Vis to lower the access barrier for them, as well as to unleash and inspire their creativity. With natural language statements as input, Text-to-Vis can automatically generate a diverse set of infographics that can well convey the information in the text. Text-to-Vis allows information workers to achieve expressive and compelling infographics effortlessly, and use them to enhance and enrich their presentations and documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":599931,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"research-area":[13554],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-599826","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-human-computer-interaction","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"","related-publications":[599919],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-groups":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[],"slides":[],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Weiwei Cui","user_id":34808,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"weiweicu"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Ray Huang","user_id":33358,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"rayhuang"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Yun Wang","user_id":37827,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"wangyun"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Lei Fang","user_id":32635,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"leifa"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Haidong Zhang","user_id":31953,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"haizhang"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Dongmei Zhang","user_id":31665,"people_section":"Section name 1","alias":"dongmeiz"}],"msr_research_lab":[199560],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/599826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-project"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/599826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599934,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/599826\/revisions\/599934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=599826"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=599826"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=599826"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=599826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}