VisMT
An Information Visualization Approach to Retail Space Management (VisMT) [Jern, 2007]
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Description
Retail space management is one of the more crucial challenges faced by retailers today with an ever expanding volume of data to which they must refer when making decisions. VisMT is a Visual Space Management System that explores retail data related to space performance. It is a multiple linked-view application that integrates a 3D layout of stores with retail data sources. VisMT is built from components of the "GeoAnalytics visualization (GAV) component toolkit" that provides a broad collection of visual interaction components from the InfoVis domain.
GeoAnalytics visualization component toolkit (GAV)
The GAV framework is a layered components architecture for Visual Data Analysis (VDA). There exist basic components (like 3D Scatter, Map, Parallel Coordinates, ...) that can be combined into Functional VDA Components like Zoom Maps, 3D Layout, Combined Graphs, ... that can then be combined into applications displaying data from different sources.
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Data Types
The VisMT application uses an object-oriented database with a hierarchical class structure. The retail data are defined in an Excel format and are converted to the hierarchical data structure.
[Jern, 2007]
External Links
- VisMT demonstrator application
- SPACEMAN Suite - Shelf planning system by Nielsen Media Research
References
- [Jern, 2007] Jern Mikael, An Information Visualization Approach to Retail Space Management (VisMT). In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference Information Visualization, pages 109-116, 2007.
- [Hochheiser, 2004], Hochheiser H. and Shneiderman B., Dynamic query tools for time series data sets: Timebox widgets for interactive exploration, Information Visualization, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pages 1-18, 2004.