A tool for recommending visualizations of open government data

• Daiane Macedo UFF
• Raissa Barcelos UFF
• Flavia Bernardini UFF
• José Viterbo UFF http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0339-6624

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wcge.2020.11261

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to present a web tool for recommending visualizations given a set of open data provided. For its construction, a literature review on construction and recommendation of visualizations was carried out. Also, tools that have a similar purpose to the tool developed in this work were analyzed. Based on the literature and related tools, we build models for the data entry and transformation processes, as well as for the decision process of the type of visualization to be suggested. In the conceived scenarios of use, we observe the following advantages of the developed tool: easiness in the creation of visualizations, improvement of the interpretability and contribution for the democratization of the data analysis.

Keywords: Data visualization, Recommending visualizations, Open government data

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