SparkClouds: Visualizing trends in tag clouds

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1182-1189

  Lee, Bongshin ^a   Riche, Nathalie Henry ^a   Karlson, Amy K ^a   Carpendale, Sheelash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

evaluation; multiple line graphs; stacked bar charts; Tag clouds; trend visualization

Indexed keywords

BAR CHART; EVALUATION; MULTIPLE LINE GRAPHS; TAG CLOUDS; TREND VISUALIZATIONS;

VISUALIZATION;

CLOUDS;

EID: 78149268875     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.194     Document Type: Article

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