ViVA - now on Source Forge!

Download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/iplant-viva/

The ViVA (Visualization and Visual Analysis) Workbench is a desktop package for interactive visualization and visual data analysis. It offers twenty linked visualizations and a library of 250 math functions, which can be used to create new variables or transformations "on-the-fly". Using "brushing," data values that are highlighted in one visualization are automatically highlighted in all other visualizations. This allows the user to highlight data values of interest and to see how those values behave in other multidimensional representations.

ViVA was created at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, by the Exploratory Visualization Group managed by Bernice Rogowitz. The principal developer for the project was David Rabenhorst. IBM has agreed to allow ViVA to be part of the open source universe, and can now be downloaded from Source Forge, sponsored by the iPlant Collaborative, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. https://sourceforge.net/projects/iplant-viva/

References

Rabenhorst, D. Interactive graphical method for analyzing many-dimensional data sets. U.S. Patent 6,384,847, May 2, 2002

Rabenhorst, D. Revitalizing the Scatter Plot, SPIE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop 99 Oct. 13-15, 1999, Washington, D.C

Rabenhorst, D. "Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Data," Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 2179, Human Vision, Visual Processing and Digital Display, 1994.

Rogowitz, B.E., Rabenhorst, D.A., Gerth J.A. and Kalin E.B. Visual Cues for Data Mining, Proceedings of the SPIE/SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2657, pp. 275-301, February 1996.

Rabenhorst, D. Rogowitz, B. Kalin, E. and Gerth, J. SPSS/Diamond Users’ Manual

ViVA was licensed to BMDP and appeared as "BMDP-Diamond) 1995, and was later licensed to SPSS, when it bought BMDP.

InfoWorld Review, September, 1995 "Just out is the sharpest data slicer and dicer I've ever seen." (Alan Friedlund)

Using BMDP Diamond (by Matthew Schall) Perspective, Volume 18, Number 2, 1995, pp. 15-24