Friday, September 20, 2013

Intelligent presentation of the right visualization

In the previous blog, we saw how different characteristics of the data can guide the process of automatic selection of the best control. In order to support the manager with an attractive and effective interface of the information stored in the database, intelligent graphics presentation might be employed. The process of intelligent graphics presentation is directed by five components as is depicted in the figure below.

Mapping data objects to interaction objects

Mapping data objects to interaction objects

Data is the basic ingredient of information. In the previous blogs, I outlined those parts of the steering model that are subject to variation. Those information-shaped elements are extracted from various internal and external data sources. The internal structure (meta data model) of the data source can give a large amount of extra information that is useful in designing effective interfaces in particular in rendering graphs.