If you've seen the roadmap from us, and would rather attend a tech session on Tuesday at 11 AM, then head on over to Dave Buck's session on Interactive Visualization:

VisualWorks contains standard widgets to allow you to see and manipulate simple data but when your data starts to become complex it's hard to see everything and how it's organized. The Business Graphics package can help you see some kinds of data but doesn't allow you to interact with your data. In this talk, I present a few techniques to see and interact with complex data. A histogram control lets you see how your data collects into groups. A hyperbolic graph viewer shows large networks by laying them out in 4D hyperbolic space and projecting them onto a unit sphere giving a fish-eye lens view of your network. A map control lets you visualize geographic based data and a time selection control allows you to see and edit temporal information. Although the code presented in this talk is proprietary and can't be released, I will show some of the implementation and optimization techniques to allow you to create similar controls yourself.

See you in Toronto!

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