egoSlider: Visual Analysis of Egocentric Network Evolution

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 260-269

  Wu, Yanhong ^a   Pitipornvivat, Naveen ^a   Zhao, Jian ^b   Yang, Sixiao ^c   Huang, Guowei ^c   Qu, Huamin ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b AUTODESK RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Data visualization; Feature extraction; Measurement; Microscopy; Social network services; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; TOPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

COORDINATED VIEWS; EGO-CENTRIC NETWORKS; MACROSCOPIC LEVELS; MICROSCOPIC LEVELS; SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; TIME-VARYING GRAPHS; TOPOLOGICAL CHANGES;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84946553002     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468151     Document Type: Article

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