How can visual analytics assist investigative analysis? Design implications from an evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 570-583

  Kang, Youn Ah ^a   Görg, Carsten ^a   Stasko, John ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

evaluation; information visualization; investigative analysis; user study; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INVESTIGATIVE ANALYSIS; USER STUDY; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

DESIGN; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79952901464     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.84     Document Type: Article

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