rapid prototyping of visualizations using mondrian

Rapid Prototyping of Visualizations using Mondrian

Adrian Lienhard, Adrian Kuhn and Orla Greevy

Software Composition GroupUniversity of Bern, Switzerland

VISSOFT’07 : : Rapid Prototyping of Visualizations using Mondrian : : Adrian Lienhard : : [email protected]

Co-evolving the visualization tool with the research process

Requirements not well known upfront

Prototyping can reveal new insights


Shortening the deployment cycle

Long deployment cycles slow down the devleopment process

adapt

compile

re-startsetup

experiment

stop

adaptexperiment

on the fly

in the same time

Changes should be applied on the fly and become active immediately


Dynamic container and visualization engine

Smalltalk

Key features enabling rapid prototyping:

‣ Hot method recompilation‣ Hot debugging support

Mondrian

Declarative visualization scripting engine

Interaction event handlers with block closures for coordinating composed views in a tool


Dynamic container and visualization engine

Smalltalk

Key features enabling rapid prototyping:

‣ Hot method recompilation‣ Hot debugging support

Mondrian

Declarative visualization scripting engine

Interaction event handlers with block closures for coordinating composed views in a tool

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Conclusions

‣ Research process and building the visualization tool should go hand in hand

‣ But, building the tool should not slow down the reasearch process

‣ Dynamic container and visualization scripting engine for rapid prototyping


Demo...

rapid prototyping of visualizations using mondrian

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