Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations – Microsoft Research

At a glance

• Brings rich interactivity to AI-generated charts: Flint-interactive enables agents to create data visualizations that users can explore directly through clicking, filtering, zooming, highlighting, and cross-chart interactions.
• Makes complex interactions easier to build: Instead of requiring low-level visualization code, Flint-interactive lets users and agents define behaviors using high-level semantic events and update operators.
• Improves reliability and reduces development effort: By using Flint’s compiler to handle interaction logic and visual dependencies, the system helps avoid many of the layout, rendering, and debugging challenges common in custom interactive visualizations.
• Connects charts, text, tables, and applications: Flint-interactive supports interactive data stories, dashboards, and connected experiences where actions in one view can update charts, documents, widgets, or application state in another.