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Sarah E. Chasins

@schasins.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley EECS. PL+HCI. Into making programming easier for social scientists and domain experts.

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Other contributors include: Justin Lubin.

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Cartokit and its underlying technologies were invented by my PhD student Parker Ziegler @parkie-doo.sh ! Find out more about Parker Ziegler at parkerziegler.com and follow him here on bksy at bsky.app/profile/park...

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Parker Ziegler / Software Engineer and Cartographer

Parker Ziegler is a software engineer and cartographer based in Berkeley, CA. He works on next generation web technologies, with a focus on animation, graphics, and emerging programming languages.

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

If you want to know more about how Parker architected Cartokit—and how Cartokit can write code for you!—check out our research on Patch-Reconciliation Correspondence: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

You can find many more resources about how to use Cartokit at: docs.cartokit.dev. If you’re interested in getting involved with Cartokit, reach out or check out the GitHub: github.com/parkerziegle...

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cartokit

Style Maps. Get Programs.

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

New demo! youtu.be/rCPLSr79aGg Use Cartokit to map your data using familiar GUI-style interactions—and let Cartokit write the equivalent code for you. Try it out at alpha.cartokit.dev.

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Cartokit: A Geo Tool That Writes Code

YouTube video by Sarah E. Chasins and the PLAIT Programming Lab

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Parker Ziegler, Marlena Preigh, and Eric Rawn also contributed!

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My PhD student Justin Lubin is the creator of Honeybee and Programming By Navigation! Learn about more of his work at: jlubin.net

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Justin Lubin

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

And if you want a Honeybee-style programming tool for your own work, get in touch! There’s no Biology knowledge baked into Programming By Navigation—we can make a Honeybee-style tool in all kinds of fields.

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

If you’re interested in the Programming Languages technology that goes into making Honeybee, take a look at our research on Programming by Navigation: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...  If you want to contribute, take a look at the GitHub! github.com/justinlubin/...

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We’ve been developing a new tool called Honeybee, a programming tool for biologists. You can use Honeybee to write a Python program that will analyze your experimental data. The demo above shows how you’d use Honeybee to code a basic RNA-seq analysis pipeline.

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Writing programs to analyze modern biological data is hard! Take a look at how we’re making it easier: youtu.be/W7N9cU6KcGE. And try it out yourself at honeybee-lang.org!

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Honeybee: A Programming Tool for Analyzing Data from Biology Experiments

YouTube video by Sarah Chasins

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Are you working on making human-friendly programming tools? Or some other HCI-PL crossover work? Come join us at PLATEAU! 2026.plateau-workshop.org The deadline is Dec 17, and the workshop is Mar 9-10. See you there :)

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PLATEAU Workshop | PLATEAU Workshop

Bringing together Programming Languages and Human-Computer Interaction

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If you or your students are interested in visualization tools, may I suggest signing up for my student @parkie-doo.sh's study! We're learning *a lot* about how to build direct manipulation programming tools these days! Please pass the sign up link along to your labs! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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