Research

As a university spin-off, research is in our DNA.

Our founders and our team have a long track record of developing and publishing cutting-edge visualization methods, and we continue to do research and publish it at datavisyn. Our basic research work is also often funded by public agencies, which we gratefully acknowledge.

BioInsight, a customized application for biomarker exploration and discovery

BioInsight, a customized application for biomarker exploration and discovery

Brian Frost, Hansen Han, Martin Weigl, Dale Erikson, Oltion Champari, Dominic Girardi, Daniela Moitzi, Lin Tang. Schrödinger Inc., San Diego, CA, Schrödinger Inc., New York, NY, datavisyn GmbH, Linz, Austria, 2025.

BioInsight is a unique solution to integrate large-scale pharmacogenomic data that enables biomarker exploration, validation, and discovery across preclinical models and drug screening studies from public and internal resources.

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CIME4R: Exploring iterative, AI-guided chemical reaction optimization campaigns in their parameter space

CIME4R: Exploring iterative, AI-guided chemical reaction optimization campaigns in their parameter space

Christina Humer, Rachel Nicholls, Henry Heberle, Moritz Heckmann, Michael Pühringer, Thomas Wolf, Maximilian Lübbesmeyer, Julian Heinrich, Julius Hillenbrand, Giulio Volpin, Marc Streit. Journal of Cheminformatics, 16(51), 2024.

We propose CIME4R—an open-source interactive web application for analyzing reaction optimization data and AI predictions, developed and tested with domain experts across three case studies.

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Visualizing and Monitoring the Process of Injection Molding

Visualizing and Monitoring the Process of Injection Molding

Christian A. Steinparz, Thomas Mitterlehner, Bernhard Praher, Klaus Straka, Holger Stitz, Marc Streit. Electronic Imaging, 35(1): 403-1 - 403-7, 2023.

We present a design study created in collaboration with domain experts, using real-world data from live ultrasound sensor measurements to guide operators of injection molding machines.

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ChemInformatics Model Explorer (CIME): exploratory analysis of chemical model explanations

ChemInformatics Model Explorer (CIME): exploratory analysis of chemical model explanations

Christina Humer, Henry Heberle, Floriane Montanari, Thomas Wolf, Florian Huber, Ryan Henderson, Julian Heinrich, Marc Streit. Journal of Cheminformatics, 14(21), 2022.

We present CIME, an interactive web-based system that allows users to inspect chemical data sets, visualize model explanations, compare interpretability techniques, and explore subgroups of compounds.

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Comparative Evaluations of Visualization Onboarding Methods

Comparative Evaluations of Visualization Onboarding Methods

Christina Stoiber, Conny Walchshofer, Margit Pohl, Benjamin Potzmann, Florian Grassinger, Holger Stitz, Marc Streit, Wolfgang Aigner. Visual Informatics, 6(4): 34-50, 2022.

Three studies comparing onboarding approaches for visualization tools, finding that an in-situ scrollytelling approach works well for visualization onboarding, and video tutorials help introduce interaction techniques.

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Visualization Onboarding Grounded in Educational Theories

Visualization Onboarding Grounded in Educational Theories

Christina Stoiber, Markus Wagner, Florian Grassinger, Margit Pohl, Holger Stitz, Marc Streit, Benjamin Potzmann, Wolfgang Aigner. Springer, pp. 139-164, 2022.

A systematic design space for onboarding in visualization, surveying academic and commercial approaches and the educational theories that inform them.

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A Process Model for Dashboard Onboarding

A Process Model for Dashboard Onboarding

Vaishali Dhanoa, Conny Walchshofer, Andreas Hinterreiter, Holger Stitz, Eduard Groeller, Marc Streit. Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis '22), 41(3), pp. 501-513, 2021.

We propose a process model for dashboard onboarding that formalizes and unifies diverse onboarding strategies, serving as an actionable blueprint for developing new onboarding systems.

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Provectories: Embedding-based Analysis of Interaction Provenance Data

Provectories: Embedding-based Analysis of Interaction Provenance Data

Conny Walchshofer, Andreas Hinterreiter, Kai Xu, Holger Stitz, Marc Streit. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(12), pp. 4816-4831, 2020.

A novel visual approach to meta-analysis of interaction provenance, capturing user sessions as graphs of high-dimensional application states to extract patterns for analytical reasoning strategies.

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Projection Path Explorer: Exploring Visual Patterns in Projected Decision-Making Paths

Projection Path Explorer: Exploring Visual Patterns in Projected Decision-Making Paths

Andreas Hinterreiter, Christian A. Steinparz, Moritz Heckmann, Holger Stitz, Marc Streit. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 11(3–4): Article 22, 2021.

We describe patterns emerging from embedded decision-making trajectories across logic puzzles, strategy games, and optimization problems, and discuss the importance of suitably chosen representation spaces.

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Taggle: Combining Overview and Details in Tabular Data Visualizations

Taggle: Combining Overview and Details in Tabular Data Visualizations

Katarina Furmanova, Samuel Gratzl, Holger Stitz, Thomas Zichner, Miroslava Jaresova, Martin Ennemoser, Alexander Lex, Marc Streit. Information Visualization, 19(2), pp. 114-136, 2019.

Taggle is a tabular visualization technique for exploring and presenting large and complex tables, demonstrated on a case study of complex genomics data analysis for drug discovery.

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TourDino: A Support View for Confirming Patterns in Tabular Data

TourDino: A Support View for Confirming Patterns in Tabular Data

Klaus Eckelt, Patrick Adelberger, Thomas Zichner, Andreas Wernitznig, Marc Streit. EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA '19), 2019.

TourDino helps users who are not experts in statistics verify hypotheses and confirm insights, integrated into the Ordino drug discovery platform for identifying new drug targets.

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Ordino: visual analysis tool for ranking and exploring genes, cell lines, and tissue samples

Ordino: visual analysis tool for ranking and exploring genes, cell lines, and tissue samples

Marc Streit, Samuel Gratzl, Holger Stitz, Andreas Wernitznig, Thomas Zichner, Christian Haslinger. Bioinformatics, 35(17), pp. 3140-3142, 2019.

Ordino is a web-based analysis tool for cancer genomics that allows users to flexibly rank, filter and explore genes, cell lines and tissue samples, with findings stored, shared and reproduced via session management.

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KnowledgePearls: Provenance-Based Visualization Retrieval

KnowledgePearls: Provenance-Based Visualization Retrieval

Holger Stritz, Samuel Gratzl, Harald Piringer, Thomas Zichner, Marc Streit. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VAST '18), 25(1), pp. 120-130, 2018.

A solution for efficient retrieval of analysis states structured as provenance graphs, demonstrated with a biomedical case study illustrating how it facilitates exploration by recalling states from earlier analyses.

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From Visual Exploration to Storytelling and Back Again

From Visual Exploration to Storytelling and Back Again

Samuel Gratzl, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Nicola Cosgrove, Marc Streit. Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis '16), 35(3), pp. 491-500, 2016.

We present CLUE (Capture, Label, Understand, Explain), a model that tightly integrates data exploration and presentation of discoveries into shareable, retraceable visual stories.

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Domino: Extracting, Comparing, and Manipulating Subsets across Multiple Tabular Datasets

Domino: Extracting, Comparing, and Manipulating Subsets across Multiple Tabular Datasets

Samuel Gratzl, Nils Gehlenborg, Alexander Lex, Hanspeter Pfister, Marc Streit. Graphics (InfoVis '14), 20(12), pp. 2023-2032, 2014.

Domino is a multiform visualization technique for representing subsets and the relationships between them, demonstrated on a use case from cancer genomics analysis for drug discovery.

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LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings

LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings

Samuel Gratzl, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hanspeter Pfister, Marc Streit. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '13), 19(12), pp. 2277-2286, 2013.

LineUp is a scalable visualization technique using bar charts that supports ranking items on multiple heterogeneous attributes, and comparing multiple alternative rankings via integrated slope graphs.

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Funded research projects

Funded research projects

ReproVisyn

Partners: datavisyn GmbHFunded by: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Systems specially tailored to biomedical research are being developed with fully integrated provenance tracking, structured validation of research results, cutting-edge visual analytics and domain-specific support — designed to make the drug target discovery phase more efficient and improve the quality of drug candidates.

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Self-Explanatory Visual Analytics for Data-Driven Insight Discovery (SEVA)

Partners: Fachhochschule St. Pölten, Landsiedl Popper OG, Technische Universität Wien, FH JOANNEUM Gesellschaft mbHFunded by: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

SEVA aims to help people quickly learn new tools for visual data analysis by developing automatically generated onboarding methods, evaluated through an iterative, user- and problem-oriented research process.

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Interested in collaborating on research?

We're always open to academic partnerships and funded research projects — reach out anytime.

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