Note: This repository is currently under construction. In the coming months, it will be updated with a wiki for installation and usage instructions.
You can try Vistrates and check out some of our examples on vistrates.org.
For a quick overview of Vistrates, see our video demonstration or watch our research talk with a live demo at IEEE VIS 2018.
Vistrates is a literate computing platform for developing, assembling, sharing, and reusing visualization components in data analytics. In contrast to other literate computing platforms, Vistrates allows you to work at multiple abstraction levels: a interactive programming view for coding, a dashboard for exploring visualizations, a canvas for annotation, and a presentation view for showcasing results. New abstraction levels can also be developed within Vistrates since it is based on the concept of information substrates.
Vistrates is built on top of Codestrates. This repository contains features for visualization and data analytics in the form of components, which can be easily added or removed. But, first remember to install the Vistrates package, which contains the core framework, on a codestrate to turn it into a vistrate.
To use Vistrates you need to setup a codestrate first. Refer to the Codestrates GitHub repository for instructions on how to set one up.
Selecting the Install and Update Packages entry in the menu will open a dialog, where one can select packages to install or update.
When developing new packages or modifying existing packages, the packages can be pushed to another vistrate (e.g. the Vistrate-Packages vistrate). This is done by using the Push Packages entry in the menu.
Removing packages is done by selecting the Remove Packages entry in the menu. It will open a dialog, where one can select the packages, that should be removed from a vistrate.
Hint: Packages section should not just be deleted but removed using the dialog.
Vistrates is a research prototype in active development. Many features are still experimental and yet to be properly documented.
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Copyright (c) 2018 Sriram Karthik Badam, Andreas Mathisen, Roman Rädle, Clemens Klokmose, and Niklas Elmqvist
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