LineSmooth: An Analytical Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Smoothing Techniques on Line Charts

Paul Rosen and Ghulam Jilani Quadri

Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2021

Proceedings of VAST, 2020

This package contains our source code, data, and a web-based demonstration.

To run the demo:

We have tested this setup on Mac and Linux distributions.

You may visit live versions of this package at https://usfdatavisualization.github.io/LineSmoothDemo/

[required] Install python3, python3-virtualenv, and git

On Debian linux, such as Ubuntu
> sudo apt install python3 python3-virtualenv git

On Mac, you can download from python.org, macports, or homebrew. You will need python3, python3-virtualenv, pip, git, ... maybe others 

[required] Run setup process

This process will setup a virtual environment and install all prerequisites.
> ./setup.sh

[required] Generate the experiemental and start a webserver

Run the server
> ./run_server.sh

If everything goes as planned, you can open a webbrowser and open url http://localhost:5250