loading...
 This Article 
   
 Share 
   
 Bibliographic References 
   
 Add to: 
 
Digg
Furl
Spurl
Blink
Simpy
Google
Del.icio.us
Y!MyWeb
 
 Search 
   
Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis
November/December 2007 (vol. 13 no. 6)
pp. 1137-1144
ASCII Text
x 
 
Jock Mackinlay, Pat Hanrahan, Chris Stolte, "Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1137-1144, November/December, 2007.
 
 
BibTex
x
 
@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70594,
author = {Jock Mackinlay and Pat Hanrahan and Chris Stolte},
title = {Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {13},
number = {6},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2007},
pages = {1137-1144},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2007.70594},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
RefWorks Procite/RefMan/Endnote
x 
 
TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis
IS - 6
SN - 1077-2626
SP1137
EP1144
EPD - 1137-1144
A1 - Jock Mackinlay,
A1 - Pat Hanrahan,
A1 - Chris Stolte,
PY - 2007
KW - Automatic presentation
KW - visual analysis
KW - graphic design
KW - best practices
KW - data visualization
KW - small multiples.
VL - 13
JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
ER -
 
This paper describes Show Me, an integrated set of user interface commands and defaults that incorporate automatic presentation into a commercial visual analysis system called Tableau. A key aspect of Tableau is VizQL, a language for specifying views, which is used by Show Me to extend automatic presentation to the generation of tables of views (commonly called small multiple displays). A key research issue for the commercial application of automatic presentation is the user experience, which must support the flow of visual analysis. User experience has not been the focus of previous research on automatic presentation. The Show Me user experience includes the automatic selection of mark types, a command to add a single field to a view, and a pair of commands to build views for multiple fields. Although the use of these defaults and commands is optional, user interface logs indicate that Show Me is used by commercial users.

[1] J. Bertin, Semiology of Graphics. The University of Wisconsin Press. 1983.
[2] S. Casner, A task-analytic approach to the automated design of graphic presentations. ACM Trans. on Graphics. 10 (2): 111–151. Apr. 1991.
[3] S. Feiner, APEX: An experiment in the automated creation of pictorial explanations, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 5 (11): 29–37. Nov. 1985.
[4] S. Few, Show Me the Numbers. Analytics Press, Oakland, CA. 2004.
[5] J. Goldstein, S. F. Roth, J. Kolojejchick, and J. Mattis, A framework for knowledge-based interactive data exploration. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 5 (4): 339–363. Dec. 1994.
[6] D. Keim, Information visualization and visual data mining. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics 8 (1): 1–8. Jan. 2002.
[7] J. Mackinlay, Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information. ACM Trans. on Graphics, 5 (2): 110–141. Apr. 1986.
[8] S. Roth, J. Kolojejchick, J. Mattis, and J. Goldstein, Interactive graphic design using automatic presentation knowledge. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI (Boston, 1994), 112–117.
[9] C. Stolte, D. Tang, P. Hanrahan, Polaris: A system for query, analysis, and visualization of multidimensional relational databases. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 8 (1): 52–65. Jan.–Mar. 2002.
[10] E. Tufte, Beautiful Evidence. Graphics Press LLC, Cheshire, Connecticut. 2006.
[11] L. Wilkinson, The Grammar of Graphics. Springer. 2005.
[12] M. X. Zhou, Automated Generation of Visual Discourse. Ph. D Thesis, Columbia University, S. Feiner advisor. 1999.

Index Terms:
Automatic presentation, visual analysis, graphic design, best practices, data visualization, small multiples.
Citation:
Jock Mackinlay, Pat Hanrahan, Chris Stolte, "Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1137-1144, Nov./Dec. 2007, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2007.70594
Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use.