Interactive exploration of implicit and explicit relations in faceted datasets

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2080-2089

  Zhao, Jian ^a   Collins, Christopher ^b   Chevalier, Fanny ^a,c   Balakrishnan, Ravin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^c OCAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

dynamic query; Faceted browsing; information visualization; interaction; network exploration; visual analytics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC QUERY; FACETED BROWSING; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTION; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTICS; VISUALIZATION; WEB BROWSERS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; DATA MINING; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA MINING; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84886692497     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.167     Document Type: Article

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