" I inherently just trust that it works": Investigating Mental Models of Open-Source Libraries for Differential Privacy

P Song, J Sarathy, M Shoemate, S Vadhan - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Differential privacy (DP) is a promising framework for privacy-preserving data science, but
recent studies have exposed challenges in bringing this theoretical framework for privacy …

Privacy-Preserving Visualization of Brain Functional Network Connectivity

Y Tao, AD Sarwate, S Panta, S Plis… - … on Biomedical Imaging …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The connectogram is a commonly used visualization of brain functional network connectivity
(FNC). In this paper we study the problem of privacy-preserving connectogram visualization …

Illuminating the Landscape of Differential Privacy: An Interview Study on the Use of Visualization in Real-World Deployments

L Panavas, A Sarker, S Di Bartolomeo… - … on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Differential Privacy (DP) transitions from theory to practice, visualization has surfaced as
a catalyst in promoting acceptance and usage. Despite the potential of visualization tools to …

Measure-Observe-Remeasure: An Interactive Paradigm for Differentially-Private Exploratory Analysis

P Nanayakkara, H Kim, Y Wu, A Sarvghad… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Differential privacy (DP) has the potential to enable privacy-preserving analysis on sensitive
data, but requires analysts to judiciously spend a limited``privacy loss budget''$\epsilon …

ReorderBench: A Benchmark for Matrix Reordering

J Zhu, Z Wang, Z Shen, L Wei, F Tian, M Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Matrix reordering permutes the rows and columns of a matrix to reveal meaningful visual
patterns, such as blocks that represent clusters. A comprehensive collection of matrices …

But Can You Use It? Design Recommendations for Differentially Private Interactive Systems

L Panavas, J Snoke, E Tyagi, CMK Bowen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Accessing data collected by federal statistical agencies is essential for public policy
research and improving evidence-based decision making, such as evaluating the …

Differentially Private Boxplots

K Ramsay, J Diaz-Rodriguez - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.20415, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite the potential of differentially private data visualization to harmonize data analysis
and privacy, research in this area remains relatively underdeveloped. Boxplots are a widely …

Differentially Private Distribution Estimation Using Functional Approximation

Y Tao, AD Sarwate - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.06620, 2025 - arxiv.org
The cumulative distribution function (CDF) is fundamental due to its ability to reveal
information about random variables, making it essential in studies that require privacy …

Federated Privacy-Preserving Visualization: A Vision Paper

Y Tao, AD Sarwate, S Panta, S Plis… - … Conference on Big …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated learning (FL) for distributed data has gained significant attention by enabling
model training on local data without transferring it to a central system. While this approach …

[HTML][HTML] Privacy-Preserving Visualization of Brain Functional Connectivity

Y Tao, AD Sarwate, S Panta, S Plis, VD Calhoun - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Privacy protection is important in visualization due to the risk of leaking personal sensitive
information. In this paper, we study the problem of privacy-preserving visualizations using …