VisTrails is a new visualization system whose goal is to provide scientists with an infrastructure that helps the exploration process inherent in developing effective visualizations. VisTrails emphasizes the importance of process provenance: it transparently keeps track of the visualizations as they are created. This facilitates exploration and reproducibility; users can always very easily go back to previous results. VisTrails was originally created for scientific visualization, but its infrastructure is equally well-suited for more general computational tasks - in particular those involving multiple separate libraries.

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I'm a researcher at AT&T Labs–Research, in the Information Visualization group. I work in data visualization, geometry processing and computer graphics. Opinions here are all mine.