In this paper, we focus on some of the key design decisions we faced during the process of architecting a visualization system and present some possible choices, with their associated advantages and disadvantages. We frame this discussion within the context of Rivet, our general visualization environment designed for rapidly prototyping interactive, exploratory visualization tools for analysis. As we designed increasingly sophisticated visualizations, we needed to refine Rivet in order to be able to create these richer displays for larger and more complex data sets. The design decisions we discuss in this paper include: the internal data model, data access, semantic meta-data information the visualization can use to create effective visual decodings, the need for data transformations in a visualization tool, modular objects for flexibility, and the tradeoff between simplicity and expressiveness when providing methods for creating visualizations.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Design choices when architecting visualizations


    Contributors:
    Tang, D. (author) / Stolte, C. (author) / Bosche, R. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    296149 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Design Choices when Architecting Visualizations

    Tang, D. / Stolte, C. / Bosch, R. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2003


    Model-Based Architecting

    Muirhead, Brian | NTRS | 2012



    Architecting for Evolution

    Hammer, K. / OCSIG | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1996