A Language for Specifying Informational Graphics from First Principles

A Language for Specifying Informational Graphics from First Principles

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A Language for Specifying Informational Graphics from First Principles

dc.contributor.author	Shieber, Stuart M.
dc.contributor.author	Lucas, Wendy
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-21T14:39:44Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.identifier.citation	Shieber, Stuart M., and Wendy Lucas. 2007. A language for specifying informational graphics from first principles. In Software and Data Technologies Second International Conference; Revised Selected Papers/ ICSOFT/ENASE 2007, Barcelona, Spain, July 22 - 25, 2007, ed. Joaquim Filipe, 33-45. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88655-6.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4745847
dc.description.abstract	Informational visualization tools, such as commercial charting packages, provide a standard set of visualizations for tabular data, including bar charts, scatter plots, pie charts, and the like. For some combinations of data and task, these are suitable visualizations. For others, however, novel visualizations over multiple variables would be preferred but are unavailable in the fixed list of standard options. To allow for these cases, we introduce a declarative language for specifying visualizations on the basis of the first principles on which (a subset of) informational graphics are built. The functionality we aim to provide with this language is presented by way of example, from simple scatter plots to versions of two quite famous visualizations: Minard’s depiction of troop strength during Napoleon’s march on Moscow and a map of the early ARPAnet from the ancient history of the Internet. Benefits of our approach include flexibility and expressiveness for specifying a range of visualizations that cannot be rendered with standard commercial systems.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Engineering and Applied Sciences	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer-Verlag	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88655-6	en_US
dash.license	OAP
dc.subject	visualization language	en_US
dc.subject	informational visualization	en_US
dc.subject	graph specification	en_US
dc.subject	charting	en_US
dc.title	A Language for Specifying Informational Graphics from First Principles	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Accepted Manuscript	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007), Barcelona, Spain	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Shieber, Stuart M.
dc.date.available	2011-03-21T14:39:44Z