Authors:
Mohammad A. Kuhail
and
Soren Lauesen
Affiliation:
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Keyword(s):
Visualizations, Building Blocks, Customizability, Spreadsheet-like Formulas.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Abstract Data Visualization
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Databases and Visualization, Visual Data Mining
;
General Data Visualization
;
Interactive Visual Interfaces for Visualization
;
Time-Varying Visualization
;
Visual Representation and Interaction
;
Visualization Applications
Abstract:
One approach to visualization construction is to use complex blocks (widgets) that are tailored for specific visualizations, and customize the visualizations by setting the properties of the widgets. This approach allows fast and easy visualization construction but falls short if the user wants different appearance or behaviour than what the widgets support. Another approach is to combine primitive graphical elements using traditional programming or visualization toolkits. Traditional programming allows high customizability, but it is time consuming and hard to develop advanced visualizations. Visualization toolkits allow easier visualization creation in some cases, but customization and interaction are tedious. As an alternative, we developed uVis visualization tool that uses spreadsheet-like formulas to connect building blocks. uVis formulas can refer to building blocks and database tables. We created several advanced visualizations, and compared our approach against others. Eval
uation shows that our approach improved customizability.
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