desdeo-components

Table of contents:

• About
• Install
• Available visualizations
  • Horizontal axis plot
  • Parallel axis plot
  • Radar chart
  • Navigation bars
• Documentation and examples
• Contributing
• Development
• Contributors

About

This pacakge is part of the larger ecosystem of packages belonging to DESDEO - a modular and open source Python framework for multiobjective optimization. You can read more about DESDEO on its homepage.

desdeo-components is a collection of interactive visualization components tailored to be used specifically in interactive multiobjective optimization. This is not a stand-alone pacakge, but is meant to be used as a library (node module) in larger projects. The components are implemented as React components utilizing d3. While specific to interactive multiobjective optimization, the visualization components present in this package may be used in any application, which requires that multi-dimensional data is shown in a manner, which enables the user to interact with it. By interact, we do not mean the typical way one would interact with data in a, say, dashboard application like what plotly offers, instead, the components are meant to facilitate interaction with methods that require the user to select from a discrete set of available options or to specify ranges for multi-dimensional data, for example.

desdeo-components is implemented in TypeScript.

Install

The desdeo-components package can be installed as a library from npm (desdeo-components) as a node module to an existing project using npm or yarn (recommended):

    $> npm install desdeo-components

or (recommended)

    $> yarn add desdeo-components

Available visualizations

Better examples will be added soon.

Currently the following components are available:

Horizontal axis plot

Parallel axis plot

Radar chart

Navigation bars

Documentation and examples

Documentation and examples are coming soon.

Contributing

Anyone interested is welcome to contribute to desdeo-components. This project is, however, part of the research conducted at the University of Jyväskylä in the Multiobjective Optimization (research) Group. It is therefore a good idea to contact (one of) the maintainer(s) before starting to work on any larger contributions to better coordinate efforts. This is not necessary, however. Anybody can fork this repository if they so wish! But if you do so, we would greatly appreciate if you credited the original repository.

Development

More info on locally building and testing the package coming soon.

Contributors

Below are listed the major contributors to desdeo-components. If you feel you should be part of this list, make a PR.

• Giovanni Misitano - maintainer
• Juuso Pajasmaa
• Mika Alaoutinen

Special thanks to Mika Alaoutinen who wrote about interactie visualization components in his MSc thesis and did a lot of the groundwork. His efforts ultimately led to the current iteration of desdeo-components.