A survey of radial methods for information visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 759-776

  Draper, Geoffrey M ^a   Livnat, Yarden ^b   Riesenfeld, Richard F ^c  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Interactive data exploration and discovery; Multivariate visualization; Visualization techniques and methodologies

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN METAPHORS; DESIGN PATTERNS; DESIGN SPACES; HISTORICAL REVIEW; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE DATA EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY; MULTIVARIATE VISUALIZATION; PROBLEM DOMAIN; RADIAL VISUALIZATION; STATISTICAL GRAPHICS; SYSTEM BUILDERS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DESIGN; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TAXONOMIES; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 68549125210     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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