Evaluation of Parallel Coordinates: Overview, Categorization and Guidelines for Future Research

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 579-588

  Johansson, Jimmy ^a   Forsell, Camilla ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clutter; Correlation; Guidelines; Layout; Standards; Three dimensional displays; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; SURVEYS;

FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; GUIDELINES; LAYOUT; LITERATURE SURVEY; MULTIVARIATE DATA; PARALLEL COORDINATES; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84947104844     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2466992     Document Type: Article

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