Visual analysis of temporal trends in social networks using edge color coding and metric timelines

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 549-554

  Khurana, Udayan ^a   Nguyen, Viet An ^a   Cheng, Hsueh Chien ^a,b   Ahn, Jae WOOK ^a,b   Chen, Xi ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^a,b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CODING; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; DATA ANALYSTS; EDGE COLORING; KEY FEATURE; MICROSOFT EXCEL; NETWORK LAYOUT; NETWORK VISUALIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TIME SPAN; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

DYNAMICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 84862931380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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