Stacking graphic elements to avoid over-plotting

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1044-1052

  Dang, Tuan Nhon ^a   Wilkinson, Leland ^a,b   Anand, Anushka ^a  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density based visualization; dot plots; Multidimensional data; Parallel coordinate plots

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DENSITY-BASED VISUALIZATION; DOT PLOT; GRAPHIC ELEMENTS; HEATMAPS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; KERNEL DENSITY; LOCAL DATA; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA; OVERLAPPING DATA; PARALLEL COORDINATE PLOTS; TREE-MAPS;

DISPLAY DEVICES; FIELD PLOTTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78149279190     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.197     Document Type: Article

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