A new authoring system for diverse data visualization at scale

Kyrix is a platform used to create a wide range of data visualizations with large amounts of data. In the current system, several hundred lines of JavaScript are required to create a visualization in Kyrix. In order to greatly reduce this barrier of entry and provide a more intuitive user experience, we have created a new authoring system which features a graphical user interface. This authoring system supports all components of Kyrix, with the user interface centering around the five main components: canvases, layers, transforms, views, and jumps. Kyrix authors can add new components, edit existing components, and fully customize a component's parameters. It also provides a hierarchical overview of all the components in the current visualization, as well as a rendered view of the visualization. While the design of this authoring system is fairly simple, it includes key design choices that greatly enhance the experience of writing a Kyrix application, and is unique in its ability to support a system that produces such diverse visualizations.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Zhang, Zhaoyuan,M. Eng.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Michael Stonebraker.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130710

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/130710