Layout and configuration tools for visualization software

Abstract: Ericsson is one of the world leaders in radio network technology and are spending a lot of resources on research in this area. This produces big amounts of data and there is a desire for tools that allows the researchers to investigate and present the data in a user friendly way. This is the motivation behind Elsa GVP, Ericsson’s visualization platform, which facilitates the production of interactive visualizations. The platform handles database connections and provides a number of visual components that can be used in an interactive visualization, such as bar charts, scatter plots and maps. Although Elsa GVP certainly makes the production of an interactive visualization speedier it is still a time consuming task and requires expert knowledge. Therefore, there is a desire to make the entire process easier and more user-friendly so that any employee can construct an interactive visualization. This is the motivation behind this master thesis work whose main objective is to investigate how to reduce the amount of work required to produce an interactive visualization by providing an intuitive graphical user interface.