Gviz: a web based client side data visualization framework

Abstract

Data visualization is widely used in modern day web applications. Although there are popular solutions like Google Visualization API and YUI, they all are dependent on the server side technology. This paper describes a generic framework which runs entirely on the client side of a web application and enables easy integration of different types of visualization components like maps and charts from different visualization providers into a single web based dashboard [1] supporting different types of data providers like XML and JSON [2]. Data is described to the framework using an open standard named Data Set Publishing Language (DSPL) [3]. The framework implements an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) to facilitate the numerous asynchronous workflows happening inside.