NoteEx: Interactive Visual Context Manipulation for LLM-Assisted Exploratory Data Analysis in Computational Notebooks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07223v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:44:55 GMT
• Title: NoteEx: Interactive Visual Context Manipulation for LLM-Assisted Exploratory Data Analysis in Computational Notebooks
• Authors: Mohammad Hasan Payandeh, Lin-Ping Yuan, Jian Zhao,
• Abstract summary: NoteEx is a JupyterLab extension that provides a semantic visualization of the EDA workflow.<n>It allows analysts to externalize their mental model, specify analysis dependencies, and enable interactive selection of task-relevant contexts.
• Score: 8.839949178567583
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Computational notebooks have become popular for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), augmented by LLM-based code generation and result interpretation. Effective LLM assistance hinges on selecting informative context -- the minimal set of cells whose code, data, or outputs suffice to answer a prompt. As notebooks grow long and messy, users can lose track of the mental model of their analysis. They thus fail to curate appropriate contexts for LLM tasks, causing frustration and tedious prompt engineering. We conducted a formative study (n=6) that surfaced challenges in LLM context selection and mental model maintenance. Therefore, we introduce NoteEx, a JupyterLab extension that provides a semantic visualization of the EDA workflow, allowing analysts to externalize their mental model, specify analysis dependencies, and enable interactive selection of task-relevant contexts for LLMs. A user study (n=12) against a baseline shows that NoteEx improved mental model retention and context selection, leading to more accurate and relevant LLM responses.

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