Hello! I am Liwenhan Xie (Shelly), a senior student from Peking University with a major in data science. I am also in PKUVIS Group, advised by Prof. Xiaoru Yuan.

I research non-tabular data visualization, especially for dynamic graphs and text. I design new representations or pipelines to accelerate data understanding.

I have interned at Visual+Interative data, Aviz Group, and HKUST VisLab, where I met amazing people and cherished the chance to be in this community.

Latest ----------------------
📢 MeasureFlow was accepted, beyond grateful to Prof. Bach and Prof. Fekete.
Will be working from home (Nanning) for a long while to prevend COVID-19.
Our notes about automatic caption generation is accepted in Pacific Vis.
🙋‍ I am currently applying for VIS PhD and waiting for results.
Liwenhan Xie

Selected Projects

Measure Flow

😆NEW: Measure Flow presents series of graph measures and offers an overview for dynamic networks, to facilitates explorations. It is an extension of Vistorian.

Demo Code
Auto-Caption

I co-authored AutoCaption with Can Liu. We designed and trained deep learning models to generate short descriptions for SVG-formatted charts automatically.

Poster Video
Pixel Matrix Array

PIMA is a new visualization for dynamic networks. It encodes group features onto a sequence of matrices with pixel technique and supports interations in a top-down manner.

Poster Video

Publications & Posters

Interative Time-Series of Measures for Exploring Dynamic Networks.
Liwenhan Xie, James O'Donnell, Benjamin Bach, Jean-Daniel Fekete. AVI, 2020 .
AutoCaption: An Approach to Generate Natural Language Description from Visualization Automatically.
Can Liu, Liwenhan Xie, Yun Han, Datong Wei, Xiaoru Yuan. Pacific VIS, 2020 (Notes) .
EarthquakeAware: Visual Analytics for Understanding Human Impacts of Earthquakes from Social Media Data.
Shuai Chen, Sihang Li, Liwenhan Xie, Yi Zhong, Yun Han, Xiaoru Yuan. VAST Challenge, 2019 (Poster) .
Visualizing Dynamic Networks of Long Sequences with Pixel Matrix Array.
Lijing Lin, Liwenhan Xie, Zhuo Zhang, Xiaoru Yuan. VAST, 2018 (Poster) .
Visual Analysis for Subgroups in a Dynamic Network.
Qi Ma, Chuangming Huang, Liwenhan Xie, Zhiyi Yin, Xiaoru Yuan. VAST Challenge, 2018 (Poster) .