More Than "Means to an End": Supporting Reasoning with Transparently Designed AI Data Science Processes
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools can now help people perform complex data science tasks regardless of their expertise. While these tools have great potential to help more people work with data, their end-to-end approach does not support users in evaluating alternative approaches and reformulating problems, both critical to solving open-ended tasks in high-stakes domains. In this paper, we reflect on two AI data science systems designed for the medical setting and how they function as tools for thought. We find that success in these systems was driven by constructing AI workflows around intentionally-designed intermediate artifacts, such as readable query languages, concept de...
| Authors | Venkatesh Sivaraman, Patrick Vossler, Adam Perer et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.HC |
| Published | 25 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 25 March 2026 |
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