TIBA: A web application for the visual analysis of temporal occurrences, interactions, and transitions of animal behavior.

Data in behavioral research is often quantified with event-logging software, generating large data sets containing detailed information about subjects, recipients, and the duration of behaviors. Exploring and analyzing such large data sets can be challenging without tools to visualize behavioral int...

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Main Authors: Nicolai Kraus, Michael Aichem, Karsten Klein, Etienne Lein, Alex Jordan, Falk Schreiber
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012425
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description Data in behavioral research is often quantified with event-logging software, generating large data sets containing detailed information about subjects, recipients, and the duration of behaviors. Exploring and analyzing such large data sets can be challenging without tools to visualize behavioral interactions between individuals or transitions between behavioral states, yet software that can adequately visualize complex behavioral data sets is rare. TIBA (The Interactive Behavior Analyzer) is a web application for behavioral data visualization, which provides a series of interactive visualizations, including the temporal occurrences of behavioral events, the number and direction of interactions between individuals, the behavioral transitions and their respective transitional frequencies, as well as the visual and algorithmic comparison of the latter across data sets. It can therefore be applied to visualize behavior across individuals, species, or contexts. Several filtering options (selection of behaviors and individuals) together with options to set node and edge properties (in the network drawings) allow for interactive customization of the output drawings, which can also be downloaded afterwards. TIBA accepts data outputs from popular logging software and is implemented in Python and JavaScript, with all current browsers supported. The web application and usage instructions are available at tiba.inf.uni-konstanz.de. The source code is publicly available on GitHub: github.com/LSI-UniKonstanz/tiba.
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spelling doaj-art-10f270d9bb2b4a80a9c02a2f69a5d4b42025-08-20T02:57:52ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582024-10-012010e101242510.1371/journal.pcbi.1012425TIBA: A web application for the visual analysis of temporal occurrences, interactions, and transitions of animal behavior.Nicolai KrausMichael AichemKarsten KleinEtienne LeinAlex JordanFalk SchreiberData in behavioral research is often quantified with event-logging software, generating large data sets containing detailed information about subjects, recipients, and the duration of behaviors. Exploring and analyzing such large data sets can be challenging without tools to visualize behavioral interactions between individuals or transitions between behavioral states, yet software that can adequately visualize complex behavioral data sets is rare. TIBA (The Interactive Behavior Analyzer) is a web application for behavioral data visualization, which provides a series of interactive visualizations, including the temporal occurrences of behavioral events, the number and direction of interactions between individuals, the behavioral transitions and their respective transitional frequencies, as well as the visual and algorithmic comparison of the latter across data sets. It can therefore be applied to visualize behavior across individuals, species, or contexts. Several filtering options (selection of behaviors and individuals) together with options to set node and edge properties (in the network drawings) allow for interactive customization of the output drawings, which can also be downloaded afterwards. TIBA accepts data outputs from popular logging software and is implemented in Python and JavaScript, with all current browsers supported. The web application and usage instructions are available at tiba.inf.uni-konstanz.de. The source code is publicly available on GitHub: github.com/LSI-UniKonstanz/tiba.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012425
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TIBA: A web application for the visual analysis of temporal occurrences, interactions, and transitions of animal behavior.
PLoS Computational Biology
title TIBA: A web application for the visual analysis of temporal occurrences, interactions, and transitions of animal behavior.
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title_short TIBA: A web application for the visual analysis of temporal occurrences, interactions, and transitions of animal behavior.
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