Sizing the horizon: The effects of chart size and layering on the graphical perception of time series visualizations

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1303-1312

  Heer, Jeffrey ^a   Kong, Nicholas ^b   Agrawala, Maneesh ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphical perception; Horizon graphs; Line charts; Time series; Visualization

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL PERCEPTIONS; HORIZON GRAPHS; LINE CHARTS; OPTIMAL POSITION; TIME SERIES VISUALIZATION; TIME-SERIES DATA; TRADE-OFF CURVES; TRANSITION POINT;

DROPS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 84892463502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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