E-Book, Englisch, 297 Seiten
Aigner / Miksch / Schumann Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85729-079-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 297 Seiten
Reihe: Human-Computer Interaction Series
ISBN: 978-0-85729-079-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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.
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1;Foreword;7
2;Preface;9
3;About the Authors;11
4;Acknowledgements;13
5;Contents;14
6;1 Introduction;16
6.1;1.1 Introduction to Visualization;18
6.2;1.2 Application Example;24
6.3;1.3 Book Outline;27
6.4;References;27
7;2 Historical Background;29
7.1;2.1 Classic Ways of Graphing Time;29
7.2;2.2 Time in Visual Storytelling & Arts;49
7.3;2.3 Summary;56
7.4;References;57
8;3 Time & Time-Oriented Data;59
8.1;3.1 Modeling Time;60
8.1.1;3.1.1 Design Aspects;61
8.1.2;3.1.2 Granularities & Time Primitives;67
8.2;3.2 Characterizing Data;76
8.3;3.3 Relating Data & Time;78
8.4;3.4 Summary;79
8.5;References;81
9;4 Visualization Aspects;83
9.1;4.1 Characterization of the Visualization Problem;84
9.1.1;4.1.1 What? -- Time & Data;85
9.1.2;4.1.2 Why? -- User Tasks;86
9.1.3;4.1.3 How? -- Visual Representation;90
9.2;4.2 Visualization Design Examples;97
9.2.1;4.2.1 Data Level;97
9.2.2;4.2.2 Task Level;101
9.2.3;4.2.3 Presentation Level;109
9.3;4.3 Summary;113
9.4;References;115
10;5 Interaction Support;118
10.1;5.1 Motivation & User Intents;119
10.2;5.2 Fundamental Principles;121
10.3;5.3 Basic Methods;128
10.4;5.4 Integrating Interactive and Automatic Methods;133
10.5;5.5 Summary;137
10.6;References;138
11;6 Analytical Support;140
11.1;6.1 Temporal Analysis Tasks;141
11.2;6.2 Clustering;143
11.3;6.3 Temporal Data Abstraction;145
11.4;6.4 Principal Component Analysis;150
11.5;6.5 Summary;156
11.6;References;157
12;7 Survey of Visualization Techniques;159
12.1;7.1 Techniques;160
12.2;7.2 Summary;265
12.3;References;266
13;8 Conclusion;267
13.1;8.1 Summary;267
13.2;8.2 Application Issues;269
13.3;8.3 Research Challenges;271
13.4;8.4 Visual Analytics;275
13.5;References;278
14;References;280
15;Index;294
