Technological developments of smartphones and tablets, the great amount of electronic
stored information and the need for decision-making, individually or collaboratively, anywhere and
anytime, demands the conception and development of services for data visualization. The Internet
has played an important role as a knowledge-sharing network and in this context, some service
oriented architecture (SOA) applications have emerged in all kind of study fields. Therefore, this
work aims the conception and development of a service aggregation that will favor ubiquity and
pervasiveness in data visualization applications, allowing users to build domain-specific data
visualizations in an easy and intuitive way. With this kind of service, it is possible to build data
visualization applications for different smart devices such as smartphones, tablets, desktop, smart
TV's, etc. A Web API that supports the main characteristics of an information visualization tool in
different platforms reaches this abstraction. REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Style was
employed in the service conception as the architectural communication model. Client-side and
server-side applications were developed using Java with a data visualization generator engine called
PRISMA. As a use case, was developed a client Android application in order to test the created
services. Lastly, initial data about usability essays performed in the developed application will be
presented.
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