Data Formulator: A Tool for Creating and Managing Data Structures

Hi everyone, we are excited to share with you our new release of Data Formulator. Starting from a dataset, you can communicate with AI agents with UI + natural language to explore data and create visualizations to discover new insights. Here's a demo video of the experience: https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator/releases/tag/0.....

This is a build-up from our release a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41907719). We spent a year exploring how to blend agent mode with interactions to allow you more easily "vibe" with your data but still keeping in control. We don't think the future of data analysis is just "agent to do all for you from a high-level prompt" --- you should still be able to drive the open-ended exploration; but we also don't want you to do everything step-by-step. Thus we worked on this "interactive agent mode" for data analysis with some UI innovations.

Our new demo features:

* We want to let you import (almost) any data easily to get started exploration — either it's a screenshot of a web table, an unnormalized excel table, table in a chunk of text, a csv file, or a table in database, you should be able to load into the tool easily with a little bit of AI assistance.

* We want you to easily choose between agent mode (more automation) vs interactive mode (more fine-grained control) yourself as you explore data. We designed an interface of "data threads": both your and agents' explorations are organized as threads so you can jump into any point to decide how you want to follow-up or revise using UI + NL instruction to provide fine-grained control.

* The results should be easily interpretable. Data Formulator now presents "concept" behind the code generated by AI agents alongside code/explanation/data. Plus, you can compose a report easily based on your visualizations to share insights.

We are sharing the online demo at https://data-formulator.ai/ for you to try! If you want more involvement and customization, checkout our source code https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator and let's build something together as a community!

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