How information visualization novices construct visualizations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 943-952

  Grammel, Lars ^a   Tory, Melanie ^a   Storey, Margaret Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical study; novices; visual analytics; visual mapping; visualization; visualization construction

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT MODELS; CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; DATA ATTRIBUTES; DATA EXPLORATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; ITERATIVE REFINEMENT; LABORATORY STUDIES; NOVICES; PARTIAL SPECIFICATIONS; PIE CHART; TEMPLATE SELECTION; TOOL SUPPORT; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUAL MAPPING; VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE;

DATA REDUCTION; DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; SPECIFICATIONS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78149232981     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.164     Document Type: Article

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