- LiveRAC: interactive visual exploration of system management time-series data
- Peter McLachlan, Tamara Munzner, Eleftherios Koutsofios, and Stephen North
- CHI pp. 1483-1492, 2008.
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- Abstract
We present LiveRAC, a visualization system that supports
the analysis of large collections of system management time-series
data consisting of hundreds of parameters across thousands
of network devices. LiveRAC provides high information density
using a reorderable matrix of charts, with semantic zooming
adapting each chart's visual representation
to the available space. LiveRAC allows side-by-side visual
comparison of arbitrary groupings of devices and parameters
at multiple levels of detail. A staged design and development
process culminated in the deployment of LiveRAC in
a production environment. We conducted an informal longitudinal
evaluation of LiveRAC to better understand which
proposed visualization techniques were most useful in the
target environment.
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