Querying and Creating Visualizations by Analogy

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Scheidegger;Huy Vo;David Koop;Juliana Freire;Claudio Silva

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;IEEE;IEEE

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

While there have been advances in visualization systems, particularly in multi-view visualizations and visual exploration, the process of building visualizations remains a major bottleneck in data exploration. We show that provenance metadata collected during the creation of pipelines can be reused to suggest similar content in related visualizations and guide semi-automated changes. We introduce the idea of query-by-example in the context of an ensemble of visualizations, and the use of analogies as first-class operations in a system to guide scalable interactions. We describe an implementation of these techniques in VisTrails, a publicly-available, open-source system.