Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Visualization can seem like an unlikely marriage. AI techniques often work as a black box: we cannot know how the AI has reached its conclusion. This can raise uncomfortable questions: think of a medical diagnosis, or the screening of job applicants: if we cannot see inside the black box, we can't know whether the AI made a serious mistake, or reflected our implicit bias. When the AI becomes a veil between us and the data it makes us uncomfortable and it takes our own intuition and insight out of the game. But AI can help us see the data, becoming a crucial help to our own analysis and judgement.

Imagine a future where Minority Report-style data visualizations run in every web browser. This is a big step forward for critical workflows like investigating security and fraud incidents, and making critical insights for the next level of BI. Today's options are dominated by rigid Windows desktop tools and slow web apps with clunky dashboards. The Apache Arrow ecosystem, including the first open source layers for improving JavaScript performance, is changing that. Frustrated with legacy big data vendors for whom "interactive data visualization" does not mean "sub-second", Dremio, Graphistry, and other leaders in the data world have been gutting the cruft from today's web stacks.