Visualization of Time-Oriented Data (eBook)

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