hectorui: A web-based interactive scenario builder and visualization application for the Hector climate model

Using XML as the source format for authoring technical publications creates opportunities to develop tools that provide analysis, author guidance, and visualization. This case study describes two web applications that take advantage of the XML source format of documents. The applications provide a browser-based tool for technical writers and editors in a 100-person documentation department of a software company. Compared to desktop tools, the web applications are more convenient for users and less affected by hard-to-predict inconsistencies among users' computers. One application analyzes file dependencies and produces custom reports that facilitate reorganizing files. The other helps authors visualize their network of topics in their documentation sets. Both applications rely on the XQuery language and its RESTXQ web API. The visualization application also uses JavaScript, including the powerful jQuery and D3 libraries. After discussing what the applications do and why, this paper describes some architectural highlights, including how the different technologies fit together and exchange data.

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Visually Communicating Future Climate in a Web Environment

Weather Climate and Society ◽

10.1175/wcas-d-19-0152.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 877-896

Author(s):

Corey Davis ◽

Heather Aldridge ◽

Ryan Boyles ◽

Karen S. McNeal ◽

Lindsay Maudlin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Model ◽

Spatial Scales ◽

Future Climate ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Climate Projections ◽

Specific Information ◽

Web Based ◽

Web Environment ◽

Error Metrics ◽

Time Series Plot

AbstractWhile there is growing demand for use of climate model projections to understand the potential impacts of future climate on resources, there is a lack of effective visuals that convey the range of possible climates across spatial scales and with uncertainties that potential users need to inform their impact assessments and studies. We use usability testing including eye tracking to explore how a group of resource professionals (foresters) interpret and understand a series of graphical representations of future climate change, housed within a web-based decision support system (DSS), that address limitations identified in other tools. We find that a three-map layout effectively communicates the spread of future climate projections spatially, that location-specific information is effectively communicated if depicted both spatially on a map and temporally on a time series plot, and that model error metrics may be useful for communicating uncertainty and in demonstrating the utility of these future climate datasets.

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BLM Sagebrush Managers Give Feedback on Eight Climate Web Applications

Weather Climate and Society ◽

10.1175/wcas-d-16-0034.1 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 39-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Melanie Brown ◽

Dominique Bachelet

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Web Applications ◽

Climate Model ◽

Climate Science ◽

Model Description ◽

Climate Projections ◽

Web Tool ◽

Web Based ◽

Weather Forecasts ◽

Vegetation Shifts

Abstract Sagebrush ecosystems have endured fragmentation and degradation from multiple disturbances. Climate change poses an additional threat that can exacerbate current stresses. Web-based climate applications can provide information to help land managers prepare for challenges. To develop useful and usable tools for land managers’ needs, the collaboration of scientist, web tool developer, and user is needed. Climate scientists and web tool developers at Conservation Biology Institute (CBI) worked with Oregon and Idaho Bureau of Land Management (BLM) sagebrush land managers assessing managers’ needs and defining criteria for useful and usable web-based climate applications. During phone interviews, land managers evaluated a series of climate-related web applications and provided insight on how future applications can best meet their needs. They identified climate variables associated with their management activities, such as the seasonality of precipitation and temperature. They provided feedback about website accessibility, terminology, climate model description, spatial and temporal scale appropriateness, graphics effectiveness, and general content credibility and consistency. Managers are interested in changes in climate, but also in climate change impacts, such as vegetation shifts. Managers need seasonal and multiannual weather forecasts for routine activities and 10–20-yr climate projections for planning exercises, but currently an information gap exists between available weather forecasts (≤12 months) and climate projections (30-yr averages). It was also found that scientific jargon contributes to misunderstandings and misinterpretation of climate information, and this study confirmed the need for better climate science education, through enhanced explanation and collaborative efforts that promote understanding and use of existing web applications.

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MightyScreen: An Open-Source Visualization Application for Screening Data Analysis

SLAS DISCOVERY Advancing Life Sciences ◽

10.1177/2472555217731983 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 218-223

Author(s):

Longfei Wang ◽

Qin Yang ◽

Adriana Jaimes ◽

Tianyu Wang ◽

Hendrik Strobelt ◽

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Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Data Quality ◽

Open Source ◽

Biomedical Research ◽

Data Evaluation ◽

Selection Methods ◽

Visual Data ◽

Web Based ◽

Visualization Application

Screening is a methodology widely used in biological and biomedical research. There are numerous visualization methods to validate screening data quality but very few visualization applications capable of hit selection. Here, we present MightyScreen ( mightyscreen.net ), a novel web-based application designed for visual data evaluation as well as visual hit selection. We believe MightyScreen is an intuitive and interactive addition to conventional hit selection methods. We also provide study cases showing how MightyScreen is used to visually explore screening data and make hit selections.

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Verifying regional climate model results with web-based expert-system

Procedia Technology ◽

10.1016/j.protcy.2012.02.007 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 24-30

Author(s):

Emrullah Sonuc ◽

Baha Sen ◽

Burak Sen

Keyword(s):

Expert System ◽

Regional Climate Model ◽

Climate Model ◽

Regional Climate ◽

Web Based

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Build Your Own Earth: A Web-Based Tool for Exploring Climate Model Output in Teaching and Research

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ◽

10.1175/bams-d-16-0121.1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 98 (8) ◽

pp. 1617-1623

Author(s):

David M. Schultz ◽

Jonathan G. Fairman ◽

Stuart Anderson ◽

Sharon Gardner

Keyword(s):

Climate Model ◽

Online Course ◽

Web Based ◽

Map Projections ◽

Massive Open Online Course ◽

Climate Model Output ◽

The University ◽

University Of Manchester ◽

Computer Resources ◽

Planetary Habitability

Abstract Build Your Own Earth was designed as a web-based tool for the user to select various characteristics of a planet and see what the climate of that planet would be like. Because of the limitations of computer resources, presimulated Earths were run using the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model at relatively coarse resolution. The tool provides 50 different Earth configurations in three categories: Recent, Ancient, and Alien Earths. Recent Earths fix the continental configuration at the present day and vary the axial tilt, eccentricity, and greenhouse gas concentrations. Ancient Earths include a series of paleoclimate simulations from the Last Glacial Maximum 21,000 years ago to the Ediacaran 600 million years ago. Alien Earths include an aquaplanet, terraplanet, ice planet, and various idealized continental configurations. Fifty different monthly averaged quantities are available to view in an annual cycle from four different map projections. Build Your Own Earth was built and designed for a massive open online course, but it has also been used in the classroom at the University of Manchester, as well as research projects on paleoclimate and planetary habitability, for example. The tool is freely available online (www.buildyourownearth.com) for anyone to access.

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The PBL-Evaluator: a web-based tool for assessment in tutorials

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.1002/j.0022-0337.1998.62.9.tb03231.x ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 62 (9) ◽

pp. 671-674

Author(s):

JF Chaves ◽

JA Chaves ◽

MS Lantz

Keyword(s):

Web Based

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Using Popular Mobile Devices in Voice Therapy

Perspectives on Voice and Voice Disorders ◽

10.1044/vvd23.3.82 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 82-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eva van Leer

Keyword(s):

Exercise Behavior ◽

Voice Therapy ◽

Pure Oxygen ◽

Mobile Platforms ◽

Self Monitoring ◽

Web Based ◽

Motivational Messages ◽

Related Information ◽

Health Related ◽

Tailored Approach

Mobile tools are increasingly available to help individuals monitor their progress toward health behavior goals. Commonly known commercial products for health and fitness self-monitoring include wearable devices such as the Fitbit© and Nike + Pedometer© that work independently or in conjunction with mobile platforms (e.g., smartphones, media players) as well as web-based interfaces. These tools track and graph exercise behavior, provide motivational messages, offer health-related information, and allow users to share their accomplishments via social media. Approximately 2 million software programs or “apps” have been designed for mobile platforms (Pure Oxygen Mobile, 2013), many of which are health-related. The development of mobile health devices and applications is advancing so quickly that the Food and Drug Administration issued a Guidance statement with the purpose of defining mobile medical applications and describing a tailored approach to their regulation.

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