Glyphboard is our approach, to combine dimensionality reduction with a seamless integration of glyph-based visualizations that are able to show the most relevant dimensions in a data set at one glance. To this end, we adopted the visual metaphor of a Big Data Landscape, which is explored by a zoomable user interface. This Glyphboard is an efficient tool to complete low-level and high-level analysis tasks with regards to high-dimensional data.
A demo of Glyphboard is available at http://glyphboard.mediadesign-tud.de/. The documentation can be found at https://visualengineers.github.io/glyphboard-doc/.
Download and install NodeJS. Verify that you are running at least node 9.x.x and npm 5.6.x by running node -v and npm -v in a terminal/console window. Older versions produce errors, but newer versions are fine.
Download and install command line interface of Angular.IO via NPM. We are using Angular CLI version 6.1.X.
npm install -g @angular/cli
Checkout the Glyphboard Sourcecode with --recurse-submodules as parameter. Only then the backend submodule will be checked out.
Enter directory and run npm install and follow the instruction at https://github.com/visualengineers/glyphboard-backend.
Run npm start for a dev server inside the project directory. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/ for the client and http://localhost:4201/ to test the backend. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files, but you will have to restart manually if you change the python backend.