Styrian Diversity Visualisation: Visualising Statistical Open Data with a LeanWeb App and Data Server

Abstract
Statistical open data is usually provided only in the form of spreadsheets or CSV files. The developers of open data apps must either restrict themselves to managable bite-sized chunks of data, which can be consumed (read, parsed, and held in memory) in one go, or must install and maintain their own data server which the app can query on demand. The Styrian Diversity Visualisation (in German ''Steirische Vielfalt Visualisiert'' or SVV) project demonstrates the use of a dedicated data server (triple store) to host large amounts of statistical open data. The SVV web app queries the data server dynamically using SPARQL queries to obtain exactly the data required at that particular time, greatly simplifying its internal logic. There is no need to parse and store entire data sets in memory.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:eurp.20161150
, booktitle = {
EuroVis 2016 - Posters
}, editor = {
Tobias Isenberg and Filip Sadlo
}, title = {{
Styrian Diversity Visualisation: Visualising Statistical Open Data with a LeanWeb App and Data Server
}}, author = {
Andrews, Keith
and
Traunmüller, Thomas
and
Wolkinger, Thomas
and
Goldgruber, Eva
and
Gutounig, Robert
and
Ausserhofer, Julian
}, year = {
2016
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
-
}, ISBN = {
978-3-03868-015-4
}, DOI = {
10.2312/eurp.20161150
} }
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