@techreport{fisher2011vis-,
author = {Fisher, Danyel and Drucker, Steven and Fernandez, Roland and Chen, Xiaoji},
title = {Vis-à-vis: A Visual Language for Spreadsheet Visualizations},
year = {2011},
month = {June},
abstract = {Finding ways for information workers to easily create and modify visualizations that display their own data has been a long time goal within the visualization community. We describe Vis-à-vis, a declarative language for defining and extending visu-alizations directly within spreadsheets. Vis-a-vis allows users to directly bind data and formula to the visual attributes of an extensible set of visualization primitives. The visualizations that Vis-a-vis creates can be shared and modified easily, allowing users to modify existing visualizations. This approach allows users to select visualizations from a gallery, to customize them easily, or to create novel visualizations. The approach leverages familiar formulas and data from spreadsheets. We prototype a system that uses this language, and use it to build a number of standard and custom visualizations, and gather formative feedback from a small user study.},
publisher = {Microsoft Technical Report},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/vis-a-vis-a-visual-language-for-spreadsheet-visualizations/},
number = {MSR-TR-2011-142},
}