Visualization of Time-Oriented Data (eBook)

Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, Heidrun Schumann, Christian Tominski (Autoren)

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2011 | 2011
XVI, 286 Seiten
Springer London (Verlag)
978-0-85729-079-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Time is an exceptional dimension that is common to many application domains such as medicine, engineering, business, or science. Due to the distinct characteristics of time, appropriate visual and analytical methods are required to explore and analyze them.

This book starts with an introduction to visualization and historical examples of visual representations. At its core, the book presents and discusses a systematic view of the visualization of time-oriented data along three key questions: what is being visualized (data), why something is visualized (user tasks), and how it is presented (visual representation). To support visual exploration, interaction techniques and analytical methods are required that are discussed in separate chapters.

A large part of this book is devoted to a structured survey of 101 different visualization techniques as a reference for scientists conducting related research as well as for practitioners seeking information on how their time-oriented data can best be visualized.

Inhalt

Foreword 7
Preface 9
About the Authors 11
Acknowledgements 13
Contents 14
1 Introduction 16
1.1 Introduction to Visualization 18
1.2 Application Example 24
1.3 Book Outline 27
References 27
2 Historical Background 29
2.1 Classic Ways of Graphing Time 29
2.2 Time in Visual Storytelling & Arts
2.3 Summary 56
References 57
3 Time & Time-Oriented Data
3.1 Modeling Time 60
3.1.1 Design Aspects 61
3.1.2 Granularities & Time Primitives
3.2 Characterizing Data 76
3.3 Relating Data & Time
3.4 Summary 79
References 81
4 Visualization Aspects 83
4.1 Characterization of the Visualization Problem 84
4.1.1 What? -- Time & Data
4.1.2 Why? -- User Tasks 86
4.1.3 How? -- Visual Representation 90
4.2 Visualization Design Examples 97
4.2.1 Data Level 97
4.2.2 Task Level 101
4.2.3 Presentation Level 109
4.3 Summary 113
References 115
5 Interaction Support 118
5.1 Motivation & User Intents
5.2 Fundamental Principles 121
5.3 Basic Methods 128
5.4 Integrating Interactive and Automatic Methods 133
5.5 Summary 137
References 138
6 Analytical Support 140
6.1 Temporal Analysis Tasks 141
6.2 Clustering 143
6.3 Temporal Data Abstraction 145
6.4 Principal Component Analysis 150
6.5 Summary 156
References 157
7 Survey of Visualization Techniques 159
7.1 Techniques 160
7.2 Summary 265
References 266
8 Conclusion 267
8.1 Summary 267
8.2 Application Issues 269
8.3 Research Challenges 271
8.4 Visual Analytics 275
References 278
References 280
Index 294

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Human–Computer Interaction Series
• Reihe/Serie: Human–Computer Interaction Series
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 286 p. 237 illus., 170 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Digitale Bildverarbeitung
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Schlagworte: Analysis • Computer-Generated Visual Representations • Human-Computer interaction • Time-Oriented Data • User • Visual Analytics • Visualization
• ISBN-10: 0-85729-079-7 / 0857290797
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85729-079-3 / 9780857290793