TY  - CONF
TI  - A Characterization of Data Exchange between Visual Analytics Tools
AU  - Nonnemann, Lars
AU  - Schumann, Heidrun
AU  - Urban, Bodo
AU  - Aehnelt, Mario
AU  - Schulz, Hans-Jörg
A2  - Banissi, Ebad
A2  - Khosrow-shahi, Farzad
A2  - Ursyn, Anna
A2  - Bannatyne, Mark
A2  - Pires, João Moura
A2  - Datia, Nuno
A2  - Nazemi, Kawa
A2  - Kovalerchuk, Boris
A2  - Counsell, John
A2  - Agapiou, Andrew
A2  - Vrcelj, Zora
A2  - Chau, Hing-Wah
A2  - Li, Mengbi
A2  - Nagy, Gehan
A2  - Laing, Richard
A2  - Francese, Rita
A2  - Sarfraz, Muhammad
A2  - Bouali, Fatma
A2  - Venturini, Gilles
A2  - Trutschl, Marjan
A2  - Cvek, Urska
A2  - Müller, Heimo
A2  - Nakayama, Minoru
A2  - Temperini, Marco
A2  - Di Mascio, Tania
A2  - Sciarrone, Filippo
A2  - Rossano, Veronica
A2  - Dörner, Ralf
A2  - Caruccio, Loredana
A2  - Vitiello, Autilia
A2  - Huang, Weidong
A2  - Risi, Michele
A2  - Erra, Ugo
A2  - Andonie, Razvan
A2  - Ahmad, Muhammad Aurangzeb
A2  - Figueiras, Ana
A2  - Mabakane, Mabule Samuel
AB  - Over the past years, the visualization of large and complex data sets brought up various Visual Analytics (VA) tools in order to solve domain-specific tasks. These VA tools are typically implemented as individual software components in data-flow-oriented models, meaning that data is transferred from one component to the next. While most VA frameworks rely on a monolithic architecture with features for the integration of specialized analysis methods, we consider a loose coupling of independent applications, where autonomous VA tools are used in predefined analysis sequences. To this end, we provide a characterization of the data exchange process among individual VA tools in the form of a taxonomy. This taxonomy can be used as a checklist to identify characteristics and improve the data flow of one’s own multi-tool VA setup. For this purpose, we conducted a systematic investigation of the individual aspects of data exchange that are commonly found across different usage scenarios. We apply our taxonomy to three existing multi-tool frameworks, the open-source library ReVize, the toolchain editor AnyProc, and the visualization and monitoring framework Plant@Hand3D.
C3  - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'20)
DA  - 2020///
PY  - 2020
DO  - 10.1109/IV51561.2020.00066
SP  - 340
EP  - 349
PB  - IEEE
SN  - 978-1-7281-9135-5
ER  -