Context-aware Recommendation of Visualization Components

Abstract

Although many valuable visualizations have been developed to gain insights from large data sets, selecting an appropriate visualization for a specific data set and goal remains challenging for non-experts. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for knowledge-assisted, context-aware visualization recommendation. Both semantic web data and visualization components are annotated with formalized visualization knowledge from an ontology. We present a recommendation algorithm that leverages those annotations to provide visualization components that support the users’ data and task. We successfully proved the practicability of our approach by integrating it into two research prototypes. Keywords-recommendation, visualization, ontology, mashup