Splatterplots: Overcoming overdraw in scatter plots

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1526-1538

  Mayorga, Adrian ^a   Gleicher, Michael ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

perception theory; Scalability issues; statistical graphics; visual design

Indexed keywords

COLOR-BLENDING; CONTINUOUS ZOOMS; DATA DISTRIBUTION; MASSIVE DATA SETS; SCALABILITY ISSUE; SCATTERED DATA; STATISTICAL GRAPHICS; VISUAL DESIGN;

ABSTRACTING; BLENDING; VISUALIZATION;

STATISTICS;

EID: 84880783616     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.65     Document Type: Article

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