Lyra: An Interactive Visualization Design Environment

We present Lyra, an interactive environment for designing customized visualizations without writing code. Using drag‐and‐drop interactions, designers can bind data to the properties of graphical marks to author expressive visualization designs. Marks can be moved, rotated and resized using handles;...

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Veröffentlicht in:Computer graphics forum Jg. 33; H. 3; S. 351 - 360
Hauptverfasser: Satyanarayan, Arvind, Heer, Jeffrey
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2014
Schlagworte:
Algorithms
Analysis
Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS)
Computer programming
Computer programs
Connectors
Customizing
Design
Designers
H.5.2 [Information Interfaces]: User Interfaces-GUI
Image processing systems
Interactive
Interactive computer systems
Specifications
Studies
Transformations
Visualization
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Zusammenfassung:We present Lyra, an interactive environment for designing customized visualizations without writing code. Using drag‐and‐drop interactions, designers can bind data to the properties of graphical marks to author expressive visualization designs. Marks can be moved, rotated and resized using handles; relatively positioned using connectors; and parameterized by data fields using property drop zones. Lyra also provides a data pipeline interface for iterative, visual specification of data transformations and layout algorithms. Visualizations created with Lyra are represented as specifications in Vega, a declarative visualization grammar that enables sharing and reuse. We evaluate Lyra's expressivity and accessibility through diverse examples and studies with journalists and visualization designers. We find that Lyra enables users to rapidly develop customized visualizations, covering a design space comparable to existing programming‐based tools.
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/cgf.12391