Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations
- Who
- Microsoft Research
- What
- introduces Flint-Interactive, a language for creating interactive data visualizations
- Quote
Flint-interactive (opens in new tab) is a language for creating interactive data visualizations on top of Flint.
What happened
Microsoft Research introduces Flint-interactive, a language built on Flint that lets users and AI agents specify interactive charts through semantic events and high-level update operators. Flint’s compiler handles visual dependencies and rendering updates, supporting filtering, highlighting, zooming, and connections with tables, text, and application state. Users can access it in chat through Flint-MCP and MCP Apps or build applications and custom interactions with its programming API.
Why it matters
Separating semantic interaction events from compiler-managed rendering offers a reusable approach to building connected charts, tables, and text without requiring agents to manage low-level visual dependencies.
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Microsoft Research has introduced Flint-interactive, a language built on Flint that lets users and AI agents specify interactive charts through semantic events and high-level update operators. Flint’s compiler handles visual dependencies and rendering updates, supporting filtering, highlighting, zooming, and connections between charts, tables, text, and application state. Users can access Flint-interactive in chat through Flint-MCP and MCP Apps, or use its programming API to build applications and custom interactions.
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