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# Jeffrey Heer

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Jeffrey Heer is a computer science professor at the University of Washington specializing in data visualization and human-computer interaction, and co-founder of Ridge AI. His group's work includes widely used visualization tools such as Vega, Vega-Lite, and Mosaic.

## 1 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS

[1:11:53](/videos/duckdb-mosaic-interactive-insights-on-large-datasets/)[2024-03-15](/videos/duckdb-mosaic-interactive-insights-on-large-datasets/)

### [DuckDB & Mosaic : Interactive Insights on Large datasets](/videos/duckdb-mosaic-interactive-insights-on-large-datasets/)

Quack and Code with Dominik Moritz (Carnegie Mellon University / Apple) & Jeffrey Heer (University of Washington) - academics researching and developing data visualization tools used by thousands of people around the world!

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