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Searching the Visual Style and Structure of D3 Visualizations
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
|August 24, 2019
Summary
We developed a search engine for D3 visualizations, enabling queries by visual style and structure. This tool helps developers find and analyze chart designs more effectively than keyword-based searches.
Area of Science:
- Computer Science
- Information Visualization
Background:
- D3.js is a popular JavaScript library for creating data visualizations.
- Finding specific D3 visualization designs can be challenging using traditional search methods.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce a novel search engine for D3 visualizations.
- To enable searching based on visual style and underlying data structure.
- To facilitate the exploration of visualization design space and identify design patterns.
Main Methods:
- Crawled 7860 D3 visualizations from the web.
- Deconstructed visualizations to extract data, data-encoding marks, and attribute mappings.
- Extracted non-data-encoding attributes and webpage metadata.
- Indexed style, structure, and metadata for search functionality.
Main Results:
- Developed a search engine indexing visualization style and structure.
- Demonstrated its utility for visualization developers and researchers.
- Identified commonly used visual design patterns through demographic analysis.
Conclusions:
- The style and structure-based search engine is significantly more useful for finding D3 chart designs.
- It outperforms baseline keyword search engines for visualization discovery.
- The engine aids in exploring design possibilities and understanding design trends.
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