Fayad’s Unified Software Engine (TDV-FUSE)
Tiny Data Visualization
Fayad’s Unified Software Engine (TDV-FUSE)
Professor Dr. Mohamed E. Fayad
Visualization offers users a powerful means of analysis and deductions that can help and assist them in uncovering and divulging different patterns and trends that they may likely to miss with other non-visual approaches. The TDV-FUSE covers and encompasses ten different visualization approaches and models that proved very successful across numerous problem domains. Where it is easy to map and visually present most data sets into a variety of graphical schemes, the TDV-FUSE will utilize to help us manage and administer diverse, intricate, and complex data sets. TDV-FUSE is a stable, reliable, easy to use, and extremely cost effective. It is also very beneficial to use this engine.
The main challenge or task for any data visualization engine is to apply ten different approaches and methods to visualize one complex set of data, to compare and/or how to apply one visualization approach on different sets of data to find all interesting patterns, which are useful to businesses. However, it is quite difficult to arrive at some predefined and standard ways of visually analyzing the data. The stupendous volume and the sheer complexity of the data make it almost impossible to run same visualization algorithms on different datasets.
This project focuses on the following aims and challenges:
Specific Aim 1: TDV-FUSE Tiny Scale Prototype, including its Knowledge Map and Architecture will undergo a serious development. The core knowledge forms an engine called “TDV-FUSE.” One can easily extend, adapt to different needs, and customize this application. TDV-FUSE has many additional properties, such as (a) Runs online all the time like major search engines, (b) Provides unlimited Any Data and Any Collection of abstract data types, such as string or integer, rational or real number and a list, or multisets, such as set of points in a plane that represent spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal applications, (c) Has ten capabilities or visualization methods, (d) Does not require prior investment, (e) Handles unlimited number of Users/Usages, (f) Limits cost per usage, (g) Handles unlimited number of applications (RUNS) at the same time, (h) Has no maintenance and license fees – no prior fees for using the engine, and (i) Easy to adapt, customize, extend with many different kernels, such as animation, constraint databases, etc
Specific Aim 2: Easy Web-Based Interface to TDV-FUSE is a single-entry interface. It takes Any Log (i.e. file) which contains the data to be visualized and shows one or more logs which contains the visualizations results.
This project is best suited for students who are interested and skilled in iPhone, iPad, mobile devices programming and Web & Internet applications’ developments. Strong Java skills are essential.
Two Conditions:
The students must participate in writing a technical and business proposal that to be submitted to different agencies for funding.
The TDV-FUSE will utilize the most recent technology such as Software Stability, Knowledge Maps, Cloud computing in general and SaaS in particular, Spatiotemporal Databases, and a few Visualization Techniques