Computation Institute Presentation
"Provenance in Scientific Visualization"
DATE: April 8, 2009
TIME: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
SPEAKER: Carlos Scheidegger, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
LOCATION: Room A134, Bdg. 221, Argonne National Laboratory, RI405, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., University of Chicago
Description:
Abstract:
How do we cope with the ever-increasing amount of available information? Can we create computational tools that facilitate the exploratory process inherent in scientific discovery? With a motivating example I encountered in my work in geometry processing, I will present research on managing the provenance of computational processes with VisTrails, a novel scientific visualization system I have helped design and develop. Besides facilitating reproducibility and sharing of results, I will show how this provenance data can be reused to ease the exploration process, derive semi-automatic changes to visualizations and automatically suggest meaningful completions. I will then discuss the impact of the work, and show scenarios where VisTrails is being deployed. Finally, I will talk about some of the outstanding problems in analysing the acquired provenance data, focusing on aspects related to social data analysis.
