End-User-Oriented Tool Support for Modeling Data Analytics Requirements

Hourieh Khalajzadeh, Andrew J. Simmons, Mohamed Abdelrazek, John Grundy, John G. Hosking, Qiang He

Abstract: Big data and analytics are increasingly used in different domains to gain insights and to improve decision-making. Developing big data analytics solutions is a complex task involving multidisciplinary teams and users - with no data science and programming background - to professional data scientists and software engineers. Different stakeholders work with a variety of data types, tasks and concepts in different languages from high- level domain concepts to low level programming languages and technical concepts. In order to advance the level of abstraction beyond low-level data analysis technical details, we demonstrate our BiDaML tool. BiDaML brings all stakeholders around one tool to specify, model and document their big data applications using a novel set of domain-specific visual languages (DSVLs).