We have designed a collaborative scientific visualization package that will aid researchers from distant, diverse locations to work together in developing scientific codes, providing them with a system to analyze their scientific data. We have utilized Java to develop this infrastructure. Two important areas which we have concentrated on developing are 1) a collaborative framework from which th...

Data visualization is an important tool for discovering patterns in the data. Finding interesting visualizations can be however a difficult task if there are many possible ways to visualize the data. In this paper we present the VizRank method that can estimate visualization interestingness. The method can be applied on a number of visualization techniques and can automatically identify the mos...

The paper considers the relationship of information visualization tools to the data mining process. The types of structures that may be of interest to data mining experts in data sets are outlined. The performance of a particular visualization technique in revealing those structures and supporting the subsequent steps in the process needs to be based on a number of criteria. The criteria for pe...

We present a preliminary description and results of a system to help the curation of genome assembly and annotation. Standard tools are used for these tasks, and our methodology focuses on user guidance, data visualization and integration, and data browsing aspects.

We present a new multiresolution visualization design which allows a user to control the physical data resolution as well as the logical display resolution of multivariate data. A system prototype is described which uses the HyperSlice representation. The notion of space projection in multivariate data is introduced. This process is coupled with wavelets to form a powerful tool for very large d...

Among the most common form of collaborative discourse in middle school science classrooms is the carefully planned laboratory investigation, where groups of students follow prescribed procedures in order to reproduce and measure some scientifically explainable event. While there are clear pedagogical benefits to replicating scientific processes in a controlled classroom setting, students often ...

In the context of collaborative data visualization and analysis, history tools can play an important role. We present a compilation that characterizes usersʼ probable objectives when using history tools for collaborative work, as well as operations commonly performed on histories. We further characterize user objectives according to the likely time/space setting in which they would be used, and...

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