Alexander Bendeck


Fifth-year Ph.D. student
Georgia Tech
abendeck3 at gatech dot edu

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Featured Projects

DataForager: Publicly-available data continues to proliferate on the Web. However, conducting data integration to combine these into a holistic dataset remains challenging and tedious. In this work from my 2025 internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, I built DataForager, an interactive system driven by an AI assistant that automates dataset search, integration, and visualization. The system enables users to quickly search a variety of data sources on the Web, join new columns into their dataset, and create exploratory charts. DataForager was published at AVI 2026.

LLM Visualization Literacy: Multimodal LLMs are here. We can now ask models like GPT to answer questions about images, including data visualizations — but how good are they at answering these questions? I evaluated the GPT-4V model on a suite of visualization literacy tasks to characterize the strengths and weaknesses of the model at reading charts. I presented this work as a paper at IEEE VIS 2024. I also published an extended reflection on this work in the IEEE CG&A journal in late 2025.

SlopeSeeker: SlopeSeeker is a system which I built during my internship at Tableau Research in Summer 2023. It is a search tool for exploring a dataset of temporal data using trend search queries in natural language, such as “show me stocks that were tanking”. The interface supports faceted search for users to navigate a semantic hierarchy of trend concepts. SlopeSeeker was published at IUI 2024.

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