Sarah E. Chasins

Other contributors include: Justin Lubin.

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.

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...

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/...

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...

YouTube video by Sarah E. Chasins and the PLAIT Programming Lab Cartokit: A Geo Tool That Writes Code

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.

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

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

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.

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/...

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.

YouTube video by Sarah Chasins Honeybee: A Programming Tool for Analyzing Data from Biology Experiments

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!

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 :)

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!
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