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11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07)
pp. 197-202
Visualisation of Parallel Data Streams with Temporal Mosaics
1 Luz, Trinity College Dublin
1 Masoodian, University of Waikato
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Despite its popularity and widespread use, timeline vi- sualisation suffers from shortcomings which limit its use for displaying multiple data streams when the number of streams increases to more than a handful. This paper presents the Temporal Mosaic technique for visualisation of parallel time-based streams which addresses some of these shortcomings. Temporal mosaics provide a compact way of representing parallel streams of events by allocating a fixed drawing area to time intervals and partitioning that area according to the number of concurrent events. A user study is presented which compares this technique to a stan- dard timeline representation technique in which events are depicted as horizontal bars and multiple streams are drawn in parallel along a vertical axis. Results of this user study show that users of the temporal mosaic visualisation per- form significantly better at detecting concurrency, interval overlaps and inactivity than users of standard timelines.
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1 Luz, 1 Masoodian,
"Visualisation of Parallel Data Streams with Temporal Mosaics,"
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pp. 197-202,
11th International Conference Information Visualization (IV '07),
2007
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