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You’ve probably never seen infographics like these. If you have, did you ever dream of creating them yourself? 

They’re the work of Brown CS PhD student Tongyu Zhou. Advised by faculty member Jeff Huang, she was part of the team at Adobe that built Project Infograph It, a tool that allows laypeople to use generative AI to easily build customizable infographics from data sets and text prompts. At the recent Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, she took the stage alongside basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal for a keynote in which she rapidly turned a set of statistics from a fictional basketball player into an appropriately-themed infographic. 

Given brief prompts (the sport of basketball and the colors purple and gold), Infograph It took a data set of hits and misses and generated an eye-catching, animated visualization that included a variety of charts juxtaposed with images of a basketball court and a basketball crackling with electricity, all in the designated colors.

We include more examples of Tongyu’s creations below. She’ll present her corresponding paper (“Epigraphics: Message-Driven Infographics Authoring”), which has already received an Honorable Mention Award, at the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) next week.  

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