title: Querying and creating visualizations by analogy.
abstract: While there have been advances in visualization systems, particularly in multi-view visualizations and visual exploration, the process of building visualizations remains a major bottleneck in data exploration. We show that provenance metadata collected during the creation of pipelines can be reused to suggest similar content in related visualizations and guide semi-automated changes. We introduce the idea of query-by-example in the context of an ensemble of visualizations, and the use of analogies as first-class operations in a system to guide scalable interactions. We describe an implementation of these techniques in VisTrails, a publicly-available, open-source system.
authors.affiliation: Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah, USA. cscheid@sci.utah.edu
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scheidegger
authors.forename: Huy
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vo
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Koop
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Freire
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Silva