Who votes for what? A visual query language for opinion data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1197-1204

  Draper, Geoffrey M ^a   Riesenfeld, Richard F ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Author keywords

Data analysis; Human computer interaction; Radial visualization; Visual query languages

Indexed keywords

BAR GRAPHS; COMPUTER USERS; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERAL ELECTIONS; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LEARNING CURVES; NONINTERACTIVE; OPINION POLLS; PIE CHARTS; RADIAL VISUALIZATION; REAL TIMES; SPECIALIZED TRAININGS; STATISTICAL GRAPHICS; TABULAR DATA SETS; USER STUDIES; VISUAL QUERY LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA VISUALIZATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS; VISUALIZATION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 54949131315     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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