Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Databases
Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Databases
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DOI：
10.1145/1400214.1400234
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发表时间：
2008-11-01
影响因子：
22.7
通讯作者：
Hanrahan, Pat
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作者：
Stolte, Chris;Tang, Diane;Hanrahan, Pat
在过去的十年中，多维数据库在业务和科学世界中变得很普遍。分析对这些数据库的接口提出了重大要求。分析师必须在假设和实验之间循环时轻松而渐进地改变数据及其观点。在本文中，我们通过呈现Polaris形式主义来解决这些需求，这是一种视觉查询语言，一种可准确描述广泛的视觉查询语言基于桌子的数据范围的数据演示。该语言将其编译成生成可视化的查询和绘图命令中，使我们能够设计系统地整合分析和可视化的系统。使用Polaris形式主义，我们建立了一个交互式界面，用于探索多维数据库，分析师可以在参与视觉分析的周期时快速和逐步构建其数据的表达视图范围。
During the last decade, multidimensional databases have become common in the business and scientific worlds. Analysis places significant demands on the interfaces to these databases. It must be possible for analysts to easily and incrementally change both the data and their views of it as they cycle between hypothesis and experimentation.In this paper, we address these demands by presenting the Polaris formalism, a visual query language for precisely describing a wide range of table-based graphical presentations of data. This language compiles into both the queries and drawing commands necessary to generate the visualization, enabling us to design systems that closely integrate analysis and visualization. Using the Polaris formalism, we have built an interactive interface for exploring multidimensional databases that analysts can use to rapidly and incrementally build an expressive range of views of their data as they engage in a cycle of visual analysis.