Introduction

Argos can record your interactions with data into an audit recording. This audit recording can be applied to either the same data set or another similar data set to repeat the operations recorded during the original data analysis session. An audit recording can be saved to your computer's file system in the form of an audit script that presists between Argos sessions. You can load these scripts back into Argos, whereupon you can (re)apply them to data sets, much like the audit recordings they were created from. In other words, Argos's auditing system allows you to record complex or routine data analysis operations once to audit scripts that can quickly be executed on new data as it comes in, with th guarantee that the exact same data analysis is performed every time, without error, in an exact and consistent fashion. To facilitate the explanation of graphical auditing, please view the following screencasts first:

• Operations to visualize observation locations, paint, and retrieve data:

  • Recording (video dimension: 1280x720; play time: 1 minute and 36 seconds)

  • Step-by-step playback (video dimension: 1280x720; play time: 40 seconds)

  • Continuous playback (video dimension: 1280x720; play time: 32 seconds)

  For a description of the data used in the screencasts, see here.

• Operations related to in situ zooming and various image operations:

  • Recording (video dimension: 1024x768; play time: 1 minute and 40 seconds)

  • Playback (video dimension: 1024x768; play time: 1 minute and 10 seconds)

  Same data as above.