scholarly journals Automation of Longitudinal Time Series Data Visualization using Plot Specifications obtained from XL file

Longitudinal Time Series data visualization plays important role in all sector of business decision making [9]. With enormous amount of complex data [11] from cloud and business requirement, number of graphs needed for decision making increased many folds. Generating enormous number of plots manually with more human input is tedious, time consuming and error prone. To avoid these issues, suitable visualization techniques with solid design principles become very important. We conceptualized and designed a novel method for automation of these processes. R-GGPLOT2[7] package and XL specifications file were primarily used to achieve this goal. We here show as how we can create multiple plots from time series data, plots specifications-XL file and R package GGPLOT2[7] in a single run. Since all required information are entered in XL sheet, R function can be run with no modification. Multiple plots can be generated by using enormous data available in production and service sectors such as finance, healthcare, transportation and food industries etc.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuguang Gu ◽  
Daniel Huebschmann

Spiral layout has two major advantages for data visualization. First, it is able to visualize data with long axes, which greatly improves the resolution of visualization. Second, it is efficient for time series data to reveal periodic patterns. Here we present the R package spiralize that provides a general solution for visualizing data on spirals. spiralize implements numerous graphics functions so that self-defined high-level graphics can be easily implemented by users. The power of spiralize is demonstrated by five real world datasets.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 754
Author(s):  
Miao Gao ◽  
Guo-You Shi

Intelligent unmanned surface vehicle (USV) collision avoidance is a complex inference problem based on current navigation status. This requires simultaneous processing of the input sequences and generation of the response sequences. The automatic identification system (AIS) encounter data mainly include the time-series data of two AIS sets, which exhibit a one-to-one mapping relation. Herein, an encoder–decoder automatic-response neural network is designed and implemented based on the sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) structure to simultaneously process the two AIS encounter trajectory sequences. Furthermore, this model is combined with the bidirectional long short-term memory recurrent neural networks (Bi-LSTM RNN) to obtain a network framework for processing the time-series data to obtain ship-collision avoidance decisions based on big data. The encoder–decoder neural networks were trained based on the AIS data obtained in 2018 from Zhoushan Port to achieve ship collision avoidance decision-making learning. The results indicated that the encoder–decoder neural networks can be used to effectively formulate the sequence of the collision avoidance decision of the USV. Thus, this study significantly contributes to the increased efficiency and safety of maritime transportation. The proposed method can potentially be applied to the USV technology and intelligent collision-avoidance systems.


2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (20) ◽  
pp. 3308-3310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenbin Guo ◽  
Cristiane P G Calixto ◽  
John W S Brown ◽  
Runxuan Zhang

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María José Nueda ◽  
Jordi Martorell-Marugan ◽  
Cristina Martí ◽  
Sonia Tarazona ◽  
Ana Conesa

AbstractAs sequencing technologies improve their capacity to detect distinct transcripts of the same gene and to address complex experimental designs such as longitudinal studies, there is a need to develop statistical methods for the analysis of isoform expression changes in time series data. Iso-maSigPro is a new functionality of the R package maSigPro for transcriptomics time series data analysis. Iso-maSigPro identifies genes with a differential isoform usage across time. The package also includes new clustering and visualization functions that allow grouping of genes with similar expression patterns at the isoform level, as well as those genes with a shift in major expressed isoform. The package is freely available under the LGPL license from the Bioconductor web site (http://bioconductor.org).


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Dög ◽  
Johannes Wildberg ◽  
Bernhard Möhring

Abstract Multifunctional forestry in Germany is characterized by long production periods and complex biological-technical processes. Private forest enterprises are complex systems which are closely interwoven with the economic environment. To ensure their economic success, forest landowners need to take the economic development into consideration and adapt their management strategies. Management accounting is an important source for information needed to fulfil main tasks of accounting that help to manage forest enterprises: ‘description’, ‘explanation’ and ‘decision making’. To get general data, long time series data, taken from Forest Accountancy Networks (FAN), can be analysed. For more than 45 years, data from the FAN Westfalen-Lippe in Germany has been collected and analysed by the department of Forest Economics and Forest Management at the University of Göttingen. The long-term development and adaptation strategies of defined groups of private forest enterprises can be illustrated using this data. These valuable time series can support decision-making processes for private forest landowners and provide tools for forest policy. The data shows that private forest enterprises, with spruce as the dominating tree species, have performed above average in terms of operating revenues and profit margins, but are also more susceptible to calamities resulting in higher involuntary timber harvests.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nüst ◽  
Eike H. Jürrens ◽  
Benedikt Gräler ◽  
Simon Jirka

<p>Time series data of in-situ measurements is the key to many environmental studies. The first challenge in any analysis typically arises when the data needs to be imported into the analysis framework. Standardisation is one way to lower this burden. Unfortunately, relevant interoperability standards might be challenging for non-IT experts as long as they are not dealt with behind the scenes of a client application. One standard to provide access to environmental time series data is the Sensor Observation Service (SOS, ) specification published by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). SOS instances are currently used in a broad range of applications such as hydrology, air quality monitoring, and ocean sciences. Data sets provided via an SOS interface can be found around the globe from Europe to New Zealand.</p><p>The R package sos4R (Nüst et al., 2011) is an extension package for the R environment for statistical computing and visualization (), which has been demonstrated a a powerful tools for conducting and communicating geospatial research (cf. Pebesma et al., 2012; ). sos4R comprises a client that can connect to an SOS server. The user can use it to query data from SOS instances using simple R function calls. It provides a convenience layer for R users to integrate observation data from data access servers compliant with the SOS standard without any knowledge about the underlying technical standards. To further improve the usability for non-SOS experts, a recent update to sos4R includes a set of wrapper functions, which remove complexity and technical language specific to OGC specifications. This update also features specific consideration of the OGC SOS 2.0 Hydrology Profile and thereby opens up a new scientific domain.</p><p>In our presentation we illustrate use cases and examples building upon sos4R easing the access of time series data in an R and Shiny () context. We demonstrate how the abstraction provided in the client library makes sensor observation data for accessible and further show how sos4R allows the seamless integration of distributed observations data, i.e., across organisational boundaries, into transparent and reproducible data analysis workflows.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Nüst D., Stasch C., Pebesma E. (2011) Connecting R to the Sensor Web. In: Geertman S., Reinhardt W., Toppen F. (eds) Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer. </p><p>Pebesma, E., Nüst, D., & Bivand, R. (2012). The R software environment in reproducible geoscientific research. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 93(16), 163–163. </p>


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 603
Author(s):  
Bee Hock David Koh ◽  
Chin Leng Peter Lim ◽  
Hasnae Rahimi ◽  
Wai Lok Woo ◽  
Bin Gao

A neural network that matches with a complex data function is likely to boost the classification performance as it is able to learn the useful aspect of the highly varying data. In this work, the temporal context of the time series data is chosen as the useful aspect of the data that is passed through the network for learning. By exploiting the compositional locality of the time series data at each level of the network, shift-invariant features can be extracted layer by layer at different time scales. The temporal context is made available to the deeper layers of the network by a set of data processing operations based on the concatenation operation. A matching learning algorithm for the revised network is described in this paper. It uses gradient routing in the backpropagation path. The framework as proposed in this work attains better generalization without overfitting the network to the data, as the weights can be pretrained appropriately. It can be used end-to-end with multivariate time series data in their raw form, without the need for manual feature crafting or data transformation. Data experiments with electroencephalogram signals and human activity signals show that with the right amount of concatenation in the deeper layers of the proposed network, it can improve the performance in signal classification.


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