Community Health Map: A geospatial and multivariate data visualization tool for public health datasets

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-234

  Sopan, Awalin ^a   Noh, Angela Song Ie ^a   Karol, Sohit ^b   Rosenfeld, Paul ^c   Lee, Ginnah ^c   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Geospatial multivariate visualization; Graphical user interface; Healthcare data; Information visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860367433     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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