Title
Querying and Creating Visualizations by Analogy
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/TVCG.2007.70584
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
pipelines,data mining,indexing terms,meta data,query by example,public domain software,application software,data engineering,data visualization,visual system,user interfaces,analogy,data visualisation,software systems
Metadata,Data visualization,World Wide Web,Computer science,Visualization,Theoretical computer science,Software system,Human–computer interaction,Query by Example,User interface,Application software,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
6
1077-2626
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
70
4.21
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlos Scheidegger160831.64
Huy T. Vo2103561.10
David Koop370242.47
Juliana Freire43956270.89
Cláudio T. Silva55054290.90