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TY - CONF AU - Abadie, L. AU - Carannante, G. AU - Kalsi, S.S. AU - Makowski, D.R. AU - Mazur, P. AU - Neto, A. AU - Nunes, I. AU - Panchumarti, J. AU - Perek, P. AU - Pinches, S.D. AU - Simrock, S. AU - Tsalas, M. ED - Furukawa, Kazuro ED - Yan, Yingbing ED - Leng, Yongbin ED - Chen, Zhichu ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - MINT, an ITER Tool for Interactive Visualization of Data J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2021, Shanghai, China, 14-22 October 2021 CY - Shanghai, China T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 18 LA - english AB - ITER will produce large volumes of data that need to be visualized and analyzed. This paper describes the development of a graphical data visualization and exploration tool, MINT (Make Informative and Nice Trends), for plant engineers, operators and physicists. It describes the early development phase from requirements capture to first release covering the mistakes, lessons learnt and future steps. The requirements were collected by interviewing the various stakeholders. The initial neglect of the architecture and user-friendliness turned out to be key points when developing such a tool for a project with a long lifetime like ITER. Modular architecture and clear definition of generic interfaces (abstraction layer) is crucial for such a long lifetime project and makes it ready for future adaptations to new plotting, processing and GUI libraries. The MINT application is based upon the development of an independent plotting library, which acts as a wrapper to the underlying graphical library. This allows scientists and engineers to develop their own specific tools, which are immune to changes of graphical library. The development based on Python uses Qt5 as the visual backend. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 809 EP - 813 KW - operation KW - interface KW - GUI KW - electron KW - experiment DA - 2022/03 PY - 2022 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-221-9 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THAR01 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2021/papers/thar01.pdf ER -