DV-World: Benchmarking Data Visualization Agents in Real-World Scenarios

TL;DR

DV-World is a comprehensive benchmark with 260 tasks designed to evaluate data visualization agents in realistic, complex scenarios across multiple domains, highlighting current models' limitations.

Contribution

Introduces DV-World, a multi-domain benchmark with a hybrid evaluation framework to assess data visualization agents in real-world professional tasks.

Findings

State-of-the-art models score below 50% overall performance.

Benchmark exposes significant gaps in handling real-world visualization challenges.

Provides a realistic testbed to guide development of versatile visualization agents.

Abstract

Real-world data visualization (DV) requires native environmental grounding, cross-platform evolution, and proactive intent alignment. Yet, existing benchmarks often suffer from code-sandbox confinement, single-language creation-only tasks, and assumption of perfect intent. To bridge these gaps, we introduce DV-World, a benchmark of 260 tasks designed to evaluate DV agents across real-world professional lifecycles. DV-World spans three domains: DV-Sheet for native spreadsheet manipulation including chart and dashboard creation as well as diagnostic repair; DV-Evolution for adapting and restructuring reference visual artifacts to fit new data across diverse programming paradigms and DV-Interact for proactive intent alignment with a user simulator that mimics real-world ambiguous requirements. Our hybrid evaluation framework integrates Table-value Alignment for numerical precision and MLLM-as-a-Judge with rubrics for semantic-visual assessment. Experiments reveal that state-of-the-art models achieve less than 50% overall performance, exposing critical deficits in handling the complex challenges of real-world data visualization. DV-World provides a realistic testbed to steer development toward the versatile expertise required in enterprise workflows. Our data and code are available at \href{https://github.com/DA-Open/DV-World}{this project page}.