SPOT: Open Source Visual Data Analytics Platform for High-Dimensional Scientific Data
F. Diblen, Jisk Jakob Attema, Rena Bakhshi, Bob Stienen, Luc Hendriks, S. Caron · 2018
One of the most challenging tasks in the field of information visualization is to design tools for high-dimensional scientific data. Existing visual data analytics tools either require expert knowledge (e.g. programming) or they are commercial tools such as Dash, Spotfire and Tableau. Spot provides a user-friendly, interactive data exploration environment for high-dimensional data sets. The main focus of Spot is on scientific use, with the aim to facilitate open science, data sharing and reuse. For example, iDARK project, which aims to collect existing dark matter models, will be using Spot in order to allow researchers to compare the particle physics data sets. This abstract gives an overview of main features of Spot, an open source data analytics platform, and its capabilities.