Tangled String: Method for Sequence Visualization Created based on Proposals in Innovators Marketplace on Data Jackets

Abstract

Innovators Marketplace on Data Jackets is a gamified workshop for presenting creating scenarios to combine and analyze data based on shared metadata, without disclosing contents of the data. Here the least necessary digest information about given data is described in a data jacket (DJ) and published, on which latent links among datasets are visualized on a game board. On this map, participants propose, criticize, purchase, sell, and call for ideas to combine/analyze data and analysis tools that may be untouchable, i.e., confidential or hidden. Requirements for additional data and tools as well as scenarios for analysis are presented in the process of IMDJ. In this paper we present a case where Tangled String, a tool for visualizing sequential data has been created from the process.