EPIC Retreat Spring 2023

April 17th, 2023 - Monday

9:15am Depart Soda Hall
10:30am Arrive in Napa
10:30am- 12:00pm Introduction Session
- Introduction Talk with Aditya Parameswaran and Sarah Chasins
- Show It or Tell It? Text, Visualization, and Their Combination, Marti Hearst slides
- A Need-Finding Study with Users of Geospatial Data, Parker Ziegler slides
- Building Next-Generation Machine Learning Applications, Shreya Shankar slides

1:30pm- 3:30pm Afternoon Session
- Integrating Unstructured Data into a Cloud Data Warehouse, Justin Levandoski, Google slides
- Moving Past “A Prompt and A Prayer”: Supporting Users in Prompt-Forward Tools, J.D. Zamfirescu
- Building Version Control Tools for Creative Coders: Quickpose, Eric Rawn
- Transactional Panorama: A Conceptual Framework for User Perception in Analytical Visual Interfaces, Dixin Tang slides
3:00pm - 5:00pm Activity (Hiking)
5:00pm - 6:00pm Break/ Check into room
6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner
7:30pm - 9:00pm Poster Session

8:00am Breakfast
9:00am Morning Session I
- Data Analysis & ML Workflow Experiences, Barbara Stanley, Google slides
- Usable Programming Tools for Experimental Biologists, Justin Lubin slides
- Towards Natural Interactions with Data, Haotian Li slides
- Retroactive Query Evaluation for Iterative AI/ML, Rolando Garcia slides IPYNB

10:25 am - 10:50am: Break
10:50am - 12:00pm: Morning Session II
- Parametric API Summarization : Template Distillation from LLMs, Naman Jain slides
- Representation Learning for Cloud Data Analytics Systems, Çağatay Demiralp from Sigma Computing slides
- Collaborative Development of NLP Models, Fereshte Khani, Microsoft slides paper

* 2:00pm - 3:30pm: Afternoon Session