
Agile Visualization with Pharo
Crafting Interactive Visual Support Using Roassal
Alexandre Bergel(Author)
APress
Published on 28. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 266 pages
978-1-4842-7160-5 (ISBN)
Description
Use the Pharo interactive development environment to significantly reduce the cost of creating interactive visualizations. This book shows how Pharo leverages visualization development against traditional frameworks and toolkits.Agile Visualization with Pharo focuses on the Roassal visualization engine and first presents the basic and necessary tools to visualize data, including an introduction to the Pharo programming language. Once you've grasped the basics, you'll learn all about the development environment offered by Roassal. The book provides numerous ready-to-use examples. You'll work on several applications, including visualizing the training phase of reinforcement learning (a powerful machine learning algorithm) and generating software visualizations from GitHub. This book covers aspects that are relevant for engineers and academics to successfully design and implement interactive visualizations.
What You Will LearnImplement agile data visualization using the Pharo programming languageChart, plot, and curve using GrapherBuild and draw graphs using MondrianImplement reinforcement learning (Q-Learning, from scratch) and use visualizations to monitor learning and state explorationUse GitHub Action to generate software visualizations (UML class diagram, test coverage) at each commit
Who This Book Is For
Programmers with some prior exposure to data visualization and computer vision who may be new to the Pharo programming language. This book is also for those with some Pharo experience looking to apply it to data visualization.
More details
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
35 s/w Abbildungen, 103 farbige Abbildungen
XI, 266 p. 138 illus., 103 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
532 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4842-7160-5 (9781484271605)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4842-7161-2
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
11/2021
APress
€46.99
Available for download
Person
Alexandre Bergel
is a contributor to the Pharo programming language and an assistant professor at the University of Chile. He does research in software engineering and programming using Pharo and other programming languages with applications in data visualization, agile methodology, and more.
Content
1: Introduction.- 2: Quick Start.- 3: Pharo in a Nutshell.- 4: Agile Visualization.- 5: Overview of Rossal.- 6: The Rossal Canvas.- 7: Shapes.- 8: Line Builder.- 9: Shape Composition.- 10: Normalizing and Scaling Values.- 11: Interactions.- 12: Layouts.- 13: Integration in the Inspector.- 14: Reinforcement Learning.- 15: Generating Visualizations from GitHub.