Scholar
Fernanda Viégas
Google Scholar ID: GvXDNsYAAAAJ
Google, Harvard
Citations & Impact
Citations
41,973
H-index
46
i10-index
78
Publications
20
Co-authors
4
list available
Contact
No contact links provided.
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Developed the What-If Tool: a code-free interface for probing machine learning models
- Created GAN Lab: an interactive browser-based GAN exploration tool (with Minsuk Kahng and Polo Chau)
- Built Embedding Projector: an open-source tool for visualizing high-dimensional data
- Developed Facets: open-source visualizations for ML datasets
- Contributed to visualization components of TensorFlow.js, TensorFlow Playground, and TensorFlow Graph Visualizer
- Led research on Fairness in Machine Learning
- Created History Flow and Chromogram for visualizing Wikipedia editing dynamics
- Developed Autovis and Data Verbalization, integrated into Google Sheets for automated charting and insights
- Led projects including Google Analytics Goal Flow, Unfiltered News, Digital Attack Map, and YouTube Trends Map
- Pioneered early visualization systems such as Many Eyes, Word Tree, Phrase Net, and Time Flow
- Art and design projects like Wind Map, Flickr Flow, Web Seer, Bloom, and Art of Reproduction have been widely exhibited
Background
- Professor at Harvard
- Data visualizer
- Computational designer
- Speaker
- Co-leads Google’s PAIR (People + AI Research) initiative
- Leads the Big Picture team within Google Brain
