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ChronoZoom: Travel Through Time for Education, Exploration, and Information Technology Researchстатья
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Дата последнего поиска статьи во внешних источниках: 28 мая 2015 г.
- Авторы: Walter Robert L., Berezin Sergey, Teredesai Ankur
- Сборник: Proceedings of the 2Nd Annual Conference on Research in Information Technology
- Серия: RIIT ’13
- Год издания: 2013
- Место издания: ACM New York, NY, USA
- Первая страница: 31
- Последняя страница: 36
- DOI: 10.1145/2512209.2512217
- Аннотация: In this paper, we describe the architecture, infrastructure requirements, and technical evolution of ChronoZoom, a unique infinite-zoom, temporal-data-visualization open-source platform. With ChronoZoom, it is possible to browse through time and history and fill the browser with events that span from 13.8 billion years to a single day. ChronoZoom, originally a tool to teach Big History, offers significant information technology challenges for integrating IT best practices in HCI (browser based zoomable interfaces), Cloud Computing (client-server architectures) and Big data (storage and retrieval) infrastructure technologies. This paper offers an overview of the ChronoZoom platform, outlines the technical issues we encountered, and the corresponding design decisions that enable scaling the server to support rendering millions of timelines for thousands of concurrent, interactive users. This paper is also a testament to how a distributed team of IT developers across two continents successfully collaborated to ship an open-source, online, educational tool that is set to have tremendous impact on how we view and interact with history. In addition to providing a tool to visualize history, ChronoZoom offers a unique data visualization tool that offers an intuitive, graphic interface for temporal display. While this paper focuses on the use of ChronoZoom to display historical information, it is equally well suited to show scientific, personal, or statistical data with its unique ability to permit temporal zoom.
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