Visualization (Reports/charts/graphics)

Background

Moving forward from the possibilities touched on in Wednesday's Reporting talk, explore options and get our hands dirty with forms of embedded data visualization (JavaScript? R? HTML5 / Canvas?). 

Highlighted solutions: 

• Embedded processing results in Harvard NRG's Image QC (Tim O'Keefe)

• Ping Project data mining site, produced by UCSD (Hauke) 

• Admin dashboard reporting in XNAT (Jenny Gurney)

When/where

• Starting at 1:00 in breakout room 213 A&B (updated). We will start out coupled with the R integration project, and then possibly break out into separate groups.  

Who

• Will (lead)

• Tim (co-lead)

• Simon D.

• Shree Unde (Wake Forest)

• Hauke

• Mohana

• Shamima

Resources

Example implementations:

• Open-access PING project site: http://mmil-dataportal.ucsd.edu/

• Allen Brain Institute: http://api.brain-map.org/examples/scatter/index.html

Graphing Libraries:

• Highcharts JavaScript graphing library: http://www.highcharts.com/

• gRaphael JavaScript graphing library: http://g.raphaeljs.com/

• D3 (BSD-licensed Javascript charting...better than gRaphael): http://d3js.org/

• R: http://www.r-project.org/

• Adobe FrameMaker: embed and draw objects in a PDF document: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f741c8-7fff.html

• Blog post on using LaTeX to embed 3D objects in a PDF document: http://meshlabstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/creating-interactive-3d-objects-inside.html

• Google Charts: https://developers.google.com/chart/

• PicNet embedded data table plugin: http://www.picnet.net/

External Tools:

• Spotfire data mining tool: http://spotfire.tibco.com/

• Tableau Public external data visualization suite: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/

• 3dnet PACS image viewer (commercial, not currently XNAT compatible): http://www.3dnetmedical.com/website/index.html

• HL7 medical messaging protocol: http://www.hl7.org/

• DHTMLX high-performance data table renderer: http://dhtmlx.com/

Subtasks

• Client-side vs server-side data set formatting?

• Custom pre-formatted data sets - e.g. for Google Charts, Highcharts, etc. 

• How big of a data set is too big for browser processing? 

• Central search to query to use for testing: https://central.xnat.org/REST/search/saved/ALL_OASIS_MR_DATA_1_1_1/results?format=csv

• Using d3 to graph stored search results: https://gist.github.com/3018714