A user selects a dataset and a first interaction profile. The first interaction profile is one of: category world, time world, or geography world. The first interaction profile corresponds to a first data visualization user interface. Without further user interaction, a method selects multiple fields in the dataset according to the first interaction profile and displays a first data visualization according to the first interaction profile. The first data visualization includes visual marks based on the selected fields. The user specifies some data visualization characteristics, and the method updates the first data visualization according to these characteristics. The user selects a second interaction profile. In response, the method displays a second data visualization user interface corresponding to the second interaction profile, and displays a second data visualization using at least a subset of the multiple fields, where the second data visualization is displayed according to the user-specified characteristics.