EDEN is an interactive visual analytics tool for exploring quantitative multivariate data. EDEN is written in Java and runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux operating systems. EDEN is developed and maintained by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Computational Data Analytics Group. The lead developer is Chad A. Steed.
If you are using EDEN for your work, we would greatly appreciate you citing the following paper:
Chad A. Steed, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Galen Shipman, Brian Smith, Peter E. Thornton, Dali Wang, and Dean N. Williams. Big Data Visual Analytics for Earth System Simulation Analysis. Computers & Geosciences, 61:71–82, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2013.07.025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2013.07.025
Compiling EDEN is straightforward. The first step is to clone the repository. We supply a Maven POM file to deal with the dependencies. In the Eclipse development environment, import the code as a Maven project and Eclipse will build the class files.
EDEN requires the DataTable library. The DataTable library must first be compiled and packaged into a jar file. Instructions for compiling DataTable are available on the DataTable repository. After compiling DataTable into a jar file, the jar file must be installed in Maven. Using the following command will install the DataTable file in the local Maven repository:
$ mvn install:install-file -Dfile=datatable-1.0.0.jar -DgroupId=gov.ornl.datatable -DartifactId=datatable -Dversion=1.0.0 -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
Optionally, the DataTable jar file can be specified with a file path in the pom.xml file instead of installing it in the local Maven repository.
To compile EDEN on the command line, issue the following commands:
$ mvn compile
$ mvn package
These commands will generate 2 jar files in the target directory. Copy the jar file with dependencies into the scripts directory and run either the eden.bat script (Windows) or the eden.sh script (Mac or Linux). The EDEN GUI should appear after issuing this command. Example data files are provided in the data directory for trying EDEN out.
Earlier precompiled releases of EDEN are available from this site under the releases section.