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A Conceptual Modelling Approach to Visualising Linked Data

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Abstract

Increasing numbers of Linked Open Datasets are being published, and many possible data visualisations may be appropriate for a user’s given exploration or analysis task over a dataset. Users may therefore find it difficult to identify visualisations that meet their data exploration or analyses needs. We propose an approach that creates conceptual models of groups of commonly used data visualisations, which can be used to analyse the data and users’ queries so as to automatically generate recommendations of possible visualisations. To our knowledge, this is the first work to propose a conceptual modelling approach to recommending visualisations for Linked Data.

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Notes

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    https://www.tableau.com/products/desktop.

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    https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Gallery.

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    https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/examples.

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    http://graphdb.ontotext.com/.

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    https://www.tableau.com/products/desktop.

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McBrien, P., Poulovassilis, A. (2019). A Conceptual Modelling Approach to Visualising Linked Data. In: Panetto, H., Debruyne, C., Hepp, M., Lewis, D., Ardagna, C., Meersman, R. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2019 Conferences. OTM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11877. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33246-4_15

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