Give chance a chance: Modeling density to enhance scatter plot quality through random data sampling

Information Visualization

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 95-110

  Bertini, Enrico ^a   Santucci, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Numerosity; Overplotting; Quality metrics; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

NUMEROSITY; OVERPLOTTING; QUALITY METRICS; VISUAL OVERLAPPING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33745469319     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500122     Document Type: Article

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