Toward an Interaction-Driven Framework for Modeling Big Data Visualization Systems

Abstract

Designing big data visualization applications is challenging due to their complex yet isolated development. One of the most common issues is an increase in latency that can be experienced while interacting with the system. There exists a variety of optimization techniques to handle this issue in specific scenarios, but we lack models for integrating them in a holistic way, hindering the integration of complementary functionality and hampering consistent evaluation across systems. In response, we present a framework for modeling the big data visualization pipeline which builds a bridge between the Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, and Database communities by integrating their individual contributions within a single, easily interpretable pipeline. With this framework, visualization applications can become aware of the full end-to-end context, making it easier to determine which subset of optimizations best suits the current context.