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Database Theory in Action: Database Visualization

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  • Human-centered computing → Visualization theory, concepts and paradigms
  • Information systems → Database design and models
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  • Visualization Theory
  • Data Model
  • Database Visualization

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Abstract

We draw a connection between data modeling and visualization, namely that a visualization specification defines a mapping from database constraints to visual representations of those constraints. We show data modeling explains many existing visualization design and introduce multi-table database visualization.

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Eugene Wu. Database Theory in Action: Database Visualization. In 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 328, pp. 35:1-35:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.35

Author Details

Eugene Wu
  • Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Funding

This material is based upon work supported by NSF 1845638, 1740305, 2008295, 2106197, 2103794, 2312991, Amazon, Google, Adobe, and CAIT. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Wolfgang Gatterbauer and Eirik Bakke for early feedback on this work.

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