LiveDocs

LiveDocs Example 1
LiveDocs Example 1

LiveDocs is a web-based approach to interactive visualization in context. Key features include:

  • web-based data exploration and presentation of data analysis results
  • integrated interactive views
    • in a standard web page
    • in context
  • supports:
    • highlighting of key results
    • guided exploration of data
    • open-ended browsing
  • extends:
    • a single analysis into several

Users can directly select items from any chart and selected information in all linked charts are automatically updated. Data selection can be embedded in hyperlinks, so that the reader can just click a link to automatically select data related to the analysis or results being discussed. An animation of a sequence of selections can also be embedded directly into a hyperlink.

LiveDocs Example 2
LiveDocs Example 2

This work was conducted at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, in collaboration with Audris Mockus, Todd Graves and Ken Cox.

Reference: Mockus, A., Hibino, S. and Graves, T. (2000). “A Web-Based Approach to Interactive Visualization in Context,” Advanced Visual Interfaces 2000 (AVI’2000) Conference Proceedings. NY: ACM Press, 181-188. (pdf)

Patent: “Method and apparatus for data visualization,” issued Feb 26, 2013, US Patent 8,386,920.