Can LLMs Generate Visualizations with Dataless Prompts?
This addresses the problem of automating visualization generation for users querying publicly available data, but it is incremental as it builds on existing LLM capabilities.
The paper investigates whether large language models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 can generate accurate data and relevant visualizations from dataless prompts, comparing their outputs to expert-created visualization cheat sheets.
Recent advancements in large language models have revolutionized information access, as these models harness data available on the web to address complex queries, becoming the preferred information source for many users. In certain cases, queries are about publicly available data, which can be effectively answered with data visualizations. In this paper, we investigate the ability of large language models to provide accurate data and relevant visualizations in response to such queries. Specifically, we investigate the ability of GPT-3 and GPT-4 to generate visualizations with dataless prompts, where no data accompanies the query. We evaluate the results of the models by comparing them to visualization cheat sheets created by visualization experts.