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Cuscus: An End User Programming Tool for Data Visualisation

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End-User Development (IS-EUD 2019)

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We present Cuscus, a tool for data visualisation that is informed by ethnographic fieldwork across different professional sectors. Cuscus allows end-users to create novel visualisations by defining visual properties in a spreadsheet. We also report on user studies in the contexts of data journalism and business analytics, and discuss further extensions to this new interaction paradigm.

Mariana is a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholar and is supported by an EPSRC industrial CASE studentship co-sponsored by BT. She is also supported by a Qualcomm European Research Studentship in Technology.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Mariana Marasoiu & Alan F. Blackwell

  2. Applied Research, BT, Ipswich, UK

    Detlef Nauck

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  2. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  3. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  4. Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK

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Marasoiu, M., Nauck, D., Blackwell, A.F. (2019). Cuscus: An End User Programming Tool for Data Visualisation. In: Malizia, A., Valtolina, S., Morch, A., Serrano, A., Stratton, A. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11553. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24781-2_8

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