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DEVise: an Environment for Data Exploration and Visualization


Table of Contents:

Overview

DEVise (Data Exploration and Visualization) is a data exploration system that allows users to easily develop, browse, and share visual presentations of large tabular datasets (possibly containing or referencing multimedia objects) from several sources.

Our emphasis is on developing an intuitive yet powerful set of querying and visualization primitives that can be easily combined to develop a rich set of visual presentations that integrate data from a wide range of application domains.

Four Steps from Data to Visualization

Click here to find out how to import and visualize data in DEVise.

Features

These features distinguish DEVise from other visualization environments:

Examples

Check out the following examples for some cool pictures, and a quick introduction to what DEVise can do.

In Depth

For a detailed description of DEVise:

Publications

Miron Livny, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Kevin Beyer, Guangshun Chen, Donko Donjerkovic, Shilpa Lawande, Jussi Myllymaki, and Kent Wenger.``DEVise: Integrated Querying and Visual Exploration of Large Datasets.'' Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD, May, 1997. The abstract of the demo session.

Karen L. Karavanic, Jussi Myllymaki, Miron Livny, and Barton P. Miller. ``Integrated Visualization of Parallel Program Performance Data.'' In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Environments and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing, August, 1996.

Miron Livny, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Jussi Myllymaki. ``Visual Exploration of Large Data Sets.'' In Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis, January, 1996.

Michael Cheng, Miron Livny, and Raghu Ramakrishnan. ``Visual Analysis of Stream Data.'' In Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE Conference on Visual Data Exploration and Analysis, February, 1995.

Raghu Ramakrishnan, Michael Cheng, Miron Livny, and Praveen Seshadri, ``What's next? Sequence queries.'' In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Management of Data (COMAD), December, 1994.

Related Work

The SEQ project is complementary to DEVise in that it is designed to query record based sequenced data. The output of the queries may be visualized with DEVise.

Release Information

The most current released version of DEVise is version 1.3.4.

If you're a University of Wisconsion Computer Sciences user, or someone else with access to the /afs/cs.wisc.edu AFS cell you can run DEVise 1.3.4 from /unsup/devise. You can also run DEVise 1.4 if you want to try a newer version that hasn't gone through the release process.

To run DEVise 1.3.4 from /unsup/devise click here.

To run DEVise 1.4 from /p/devise/public click here.

If you don't have access to /afs/cs.wisc.edu, you need to download DEVise to run it.

DEVise 1.3.4 and 1.4 executables are available for the following architectures:

The executables for the Solaris platforms are dynamically linked, so you need to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable appropriately to run DEVise. On all other supported architectures, the executables are statically linked and require no shareable libraries at run time. If you're running on SPARC/Solaris, and having trouble with dynamic library versions, try running the SPARC/SunOS executables -- this has worked for at least some people.

DEVise 1.4 warning.

To download DEVise click here.

Documentation

Here is a copy of the Devise 1.3.4 documentation.

Contacts

For more information on this research project, contact Miron Livny, Raghu Ramakrishnan, or Kent Wenger.

User Support Hotline

Send mail to the DEVise User Support Hotline.


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