Transcript Improvise Chris Weaver University of Wisconsin—Madison

Improvise
Chris Weaver
University of Wisconsin—Madison
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~weaver/improvise/
• End-user visualization builder and browser
• Coupled coordination and visual encoding
mechanisms
• Integrated metavisualization
• All point-and-click operation
• Fully-implemented (but by no means
complete!)
Implementation Trivia
• Formerly Java 1.1 + Swing
• Recently started changing over to Java 1.4
for Java2D, transparency, etc.
• Anticipating Java 1.5 for better runtime
compilation support
• Xerces for document persistence
• ~246,000 lines, 2900 classes (1000 fn ops)
• Nominally platform-independent
Hopes for Today…
• Build initial user base, solicit usability feedback
• Better understanding of the role of coordination
architectures in visualization infrastructure
• Elicit feedback about metavisualization &
possibility of incorporating it elsewhere
• Add my big-vis-system implementation
experiences to the stewpot