Show Me: Automatic Presentation for Visual Analysis
Mackinlay, J.D.
Hanrahan, P.
Stolte, C.
Tableau Software, Seattle;
This paper appears in: Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Nov.-Dec. 2007
Volume: 13,
Issue: 6
On page(s): 1137-1144
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC, USA,
ISSN: 1077-2626
INSPEC Accession Number: 9658196
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70594
Current Version Published: 2007-11-05
Abstract
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.
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