Visual exploration of large hierarchies with information pyramids

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 793-798

  Andrews, K ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bars; Geometry; Hard disks; Navigation; Prototypes; Stock markets; Strips; Tree data structures; Two dimensional displays; Visualization

Indexed keywords

BARS (METAL); DATA VISUALIZATION; FINANCIAL MARKETS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FORESTRY; GEOMETRY; HARD DISK STORAGE; NAVIGATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION; LARGE HIERARCHIES; PROTOTYPES; STRIPS; TREE DATA STRUCTURES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAYS; VISUAL EXPLORATION;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84948675511     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2002.1028871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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