Creation of visualizations based on linked data

  • Authors:
  • Alvaro Graves

  • Affiliations:
  • Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A common task with any relatively large amount of data is to create visual representations that help users to make sense of such data and observe trends that otherwise would be hard for them to appreciate. The creation of these visualizations usually requires some knowledge in a programming language, making it difficult for non-technical savvy users to create visualizations. In this paper we present Visualbox, a system that makes it easier for non-programmers to create web visualizations based on Linked Data. These visualizations can be accessed by any modern web browser and can be easily embedded in web pages and blogs. We describe how people can create visualizations using Visualbox and we show examples of work done by real users. Finally we present a study that shows that Visualbox makes it easier for users to create Linked Data-based visualizations.