Reinventing the contingency wheel: Scalable visual analytics of large categorical data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2849-2858

  Alsallakh, Bilal ^a   Aigner, Wolfgang ^a   Miksch, Silvia ^a   Groller, M Eduard ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

contingency table analysis; information interfaces and representation; Large categorical data; visual analytics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED METHODS; BUSINESS DOMAIN; CATEGORICAL DATA; CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; CONTINGENCY TABLE; CONTINGENCY TABLE ANALYSIS; COORDINATED VIEWS; DATA ITEMS; INFORMATION INTERFACES; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION; OVERVIEW+DETAIL; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUAL ELEMENTS; VISUALIZATION METHOD;

DATA VISUALIZATION; WHEELS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84867638391     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.254     Document Type: Article

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