MSPViz

MSPViz is a web-based visualisation tool for structural plasticity models. It uses a novel visualisation technique based on the representation of neuronal information through the use of abstract levels and a set of representations in each level. This hierarchical representation lets the user interact and change the representation, modifying the degree of detail of the information to be analysed in a simple and intuitive way, through the navigation of different views at different levels of abstraction. The designed representations in each view only contain the necessary variables to achieve the desired tasks, thus avoiding overwhelming saturation of information. The multilevel structure and the design of the representations provide organised views, which facilitate visual analysis tasks. Moreover, each view has been enhanced adding line and bar charts to analyse trends in simulation data. Filtering and sorting capabilities can be applied on each view to ease the analysis. Additionally, some other views, such as connectivity matrices and force-directed layouts, have been incorporated, enriching the already existing views and improving the analysis process. Finally, this tool has been optimised to lower render and data loading times, even from remote sources such as WebDav servers.