1. Mashups and Dashboards National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2. Outline Questions???? Projects Visualization Components Mashups and Dashboards

3. Attendee Project Plan Study/Project Title Team Members and their Affiliation Procedural Outline of Study/Project –Research Question/Purpose of Study –Data Sources –Analysis Tools Activity Timeline or Milestones Report or Project Outcome(s) Ideas on what your team needs from SEASR staff to help you achieve your goal.

4. Visualization Components JavaScript –GIS: GoogleMaps –Temporal: Simile –InfoVis: Protovis – Parallel Coordinates, Link Node, Arcs GWT –Dendogram –Table Viewer Flash –InfoVis: Flare Applets –Data Mining Results: Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes, Rule Association HTML –Reports

5. Mashups & Dashboards HTML driven dashboard Connect to DB to make the query 6 analytical services (flows) –4 different tag cloud views –2 entity relationship views Example: SEASR, Protovis

6. Usage of Service from HTML Simple

7. More Complex var servicePorts = [ 10000, 10001, 10002, 10003, 10004, 10005 ]; var iframes = ["frame1", "frame2", "frame3", "frame4", "frame5", "frame6”]; function searchService() { var searchterm = document.getElementById("searchterm").value; for (var i in servicePorts) window.frames[iframes[i]].location.href = "http://meandre- dev.leo.ncsa.edu:" + servicePorts[i] + "/service/post?query=" + searchterm; } …

8. Other Noteworthy Data Cleaning Tools Data Wrangler –http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/http://vis.stanford.edu/wrangler/ –“Wrangler is an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing your data.” Google Refine –http://code.google.com/p/google- refine/http://code.google.com/p/google- refine/ –“is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another”

9. Demonstration

10. Learning Exercises

11. Discussion Questions What challenges (if any) would scholars have installing the SEASR software? Do you see your institution's IT department running the SEASR environment or would it be your research group?