Visualizing Diversity and Depth over a Set of Objects

Author

Pearlman, Jason ; Rheingans, Penny ; Des Jardins, Marie

Author_Institution

Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore

Volume

27

Issue

5

fYear

2007

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

45

Abstract

In many domains, the user is interested not only in including objects with particular desired values, but also in the distribution of values in the the set. Our approach for visualizing a set of objects uses glyphs overlaid on a composite representation of the entire set to convey objects´ depth and the set´s diversity. We test and apply this technique to three application domains: analyzing student applicant pools of a particular school or department, building an effective fantasy football team, and analyzing traffic activity on a network.

Keywords

computer networks; data visualisation; educational administrative data processing; rendering (computer graphics); sport; telecommunication traffic; computer network traffic analysis; fantasy football team building; glyph attributes; object depth; object visualization; rendering; set diversity; student applicant pool analysis; Aggregates; Application software; Computer science; Data visualization; Educational institutions; Statistical distributions; background overlay; barycentric coordinates; glyph visualization; multidimensional visualization; multivariate visualization; visualization; Algorithms; Computer Graphics; Computer Simulation; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Information Storage and Retrieval; Models, Theoretical; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2007.139

Filename

4302581