Today scientists are confronted with the problem of understanding and analyzing large masses of numeric scientific data. This thesis presents DataVis, a visual programming language that is designed to be used by scientists for the visualization of scientific data. Since DataVis is a visual language, DataVis programs and functions are primarily diagrams, rather than text. The language is based on the data flow computational model. DataVis provides a library of predefined programs and functions.
Scientists transform data into pictures by connecting data icons to program icons.
It is a complete programming language, so there is no limit to the kinds of visualization tools that it can construct, but its programming language is built on the same metaphor as the user interface of its applications, so it is easy for non-programmers to learn. How to view this document Display an overview of the document in one of the following formats. Display the whole document in one of the following formats. PostScript 192241 bytes. This server operates at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Department.