Protovis: A graphical toolkit for visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1121-1128

  Bostock, Michael ^a   Heer, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

2D graphics; Information visualization; toolkits; user interfaces

Indexed keywords

2D GRAPHICS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL PRIMITIVES; GRAPHICAL TOOLKITS; GRAPHICS SYSTEMS; IMPROVING EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; TOOLKITS; VECTOR-BASED; VISUAL PROPERTIES; VISUAL THINKING; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77957835477     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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