Exploratory to Presentation Visualization, and Everything In-between: Providing Flexibility in Aesthetics, Interactions and Visual Layering

It is often necessary to perform exploratory analysis on datasets in order to determine the patterns to show as presentation visualizations for a target audience. In many cases, exploratory packages do not offer enough flexibility to alter application look and feel in order to produce the required presentations of the data. Runtime modifications of aesthetic, interactive and visualization layering properties allow new interfaces to be defined that can best suit a target audience. Modifications to these properties allow advanced exploratory systems to be reduced down to limited presentation visualizations, and everything in between. This paper explores the design and applications of such runtime application flexibility within the web-based visualization environment Weave.