The popularity of these visualization grammars is evident. As open-source packages, ggplot2 (R) has around 1.5 million down-Visualization grammars, often based on the Grammar of Graphics, are popular choices for specifying expressive visualizations and loads from CRAN per month 1 and Vega-Lite (JSON specifcation) supporting visualization systems. However, there are still open has 2 million CDN hits per month 2 . Users of visualization grammars are well beyond the visualization research community -journalquestions about grammar design and evaluation not well-answered in visualization research. In this SIG, we propose to discuss what ists use D3 3 and ggplot2 [5] in their reporting, and authors of ggplot2 books have background in felds like statistics [19] and makes a grammar "good" and explore evaluation methodologies sociology [4]. best suited for visualization grammars. Increasingly, visualization grammars have become building blocks for other formalisms and systems. To support data explo-CCS CONCEPTS ration and question answering in visual analysis, Voyager 2, a • Human-centered computing → Visualization design and mixed-initiative system, is powered through CompassQL, "a generevaluation methods; Visualization theory, concepts and alization of the Vega-Lite grammar" [14, 22]. To depict probability paradigms; Visualization application domains. distributions, A Probabilistic Grammar of Graphics makes probability expressions such as P(A|B) frst-class citizens on top of the KEYWORDS original GoG [13]. For high-performance visual analytics, P6 lever-Grammar of Graphics ages a declarative grammar to integrate interactive visualizations
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