#PRCN2020: Bringing Pure-data to life through visualizations and interaction

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Søren Vidmar, University of Aalborg, Denmark

About this talk

Traditionally we have relied a lot on "classic reporting" when presenting and disseminating data from Pure to a given recipient or audience. The usual approach has been Excel sheets or .pdf's combined with the standardized way data is presented on the Pure Portal. Now, there's absolutely nothing wrong with an Excel report. Being able to extract data from Pure through reports has great value - but let's face it, it is not necessarily the most interesting way to present the data to people. Same goes for the Pure Portal - it's fast, reliable and requires little attention, but it won't blow the audience away, and invite them to explore or engage with the data. This presentation will cover some of the new ways we have tried to visualize our data and bring it more to life through services such as Flourish, Google Data Studio, Sway and more. I will show examples of visualizations, and other new ways our Pure data is being put to use in different contexts beyond reporting and portal. Our goal has been to 1: make the data more visually appealing and interesting to explore and 2: make the data interactive, compared to a static webpage or document. The presentation will also cover some of the challenges we have faced and still face in order to make our data appealing. Hopefully it will inspire others who are interested in visualizations of (Pure) data, and give the Pure team at Elsevier some good ideas for future versions of Pure.
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