Coordinated queries: A domain specific language for exploratory development of multiview visualizations

The development of information visualization user interfaces suffers from a persistent gap between toolkit-based programming and interactive design, between the visualization experts who build tools and the information experts who cultivate analytic utility. Coordinated queries is a declarative language for live design of information visualization user interfaces. The combination of a visualization specific language with an extensive library of views and queries gives designers flexible, yet precise control over the appearance and behavior of data in response to interaction. Through live, integrated editing of essentially infinite variations on well-known patterns of visual data representation and multiple view coordination, it is practical to iteratively grow and vary visualizations much more quickly than by traditional means, thereby facilitating open-ended visual exploration and analysis in a variety of domains.