Visualization of Blockchain Data: A Systematic Review

Abstract

We present a systematic review of visual analytics tools used for the analysis of blockchains-related data. The blockchain concept has recently received considerable attention and spurred applications in a variety of domains. We systematically and quantitatively assessed 76 analytics tools that have been proposed in research as well as online by professionals and blockchain enthusiasts. Our classification of these tools distinguishes (1) target blockchains, (2) blockchain data, (3) target audiences, (4) task domains, and (5) visualization types. Furthermore, we look at which aspects of blockchain data have already been explored and point out areas that deserve more investigation in the future.

MiningVis: Visual Analytics of the Bitcoin Mining Economy

“…We previously published a systematic review of visualizations of blockchain data [59]. Out of the sources we surveyed, 79% focused on Bitcoin as the most prominent blockchain.…”

“…Our work followed a data-first design methodology [44], motivated by the presence of an interesting real-world dataset from which we later derived specific stakeholder analysis questions. Our work began from a survey on Bitcoin visualization and analyses [59] during which we remarked a lack of tools and systems that help to analyze Bitcoin mining in detail. Due to the primary economic incentives of Bitcoin mining we partnered with an economist working on Bitcoin as our main stakeholder.…”

SilkViser: A Visual Explorer of Blockchain-based Cryptocurrency Transaction Data

“…Visualization has become an increasingly important research area due to its wide range of applications in many disciplines [19,23,25,26,31,38,41,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]62]. Recently, the visualization and visual analytics community is eliciting considerable interests in blockchain data presentation and analysis, leading to several pioneering studies [45]. We introduce them from the perspectives of using statistical diagrams, information visualizations, and visual analytics.…”

SilkViser: A Visual Explorer of Blockchain-based Cryptocurrency Transaction Data

“…Visualization has become an increasingly important research area due to its wide range of applications in many disciplines [19,23,25,26,31,38,41,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]62]. Recently, the visualization and visual analytics community is eliciting considerable interests in blockchain data presentation and analysis, leading to several pioneering studies [45]. We introduce them from the perspectives of using statistical diagrams, information visualizations, and visual analytics.…”