Paper Info
Title
Innovation trajectories for information visualizations: comparing treemaps, cone trees, and hyperbolic trees
Abstract
This paper reviews the trajectory of three information visualization innovations: treemaps, cone trees, and hyperbolic trees. These three ideas were first published around the same time in the early 1990s, so we are able to track academic publications, patents, and trade press articles over almost two decades. We describe the early history of each approach, problems with data collection from differing sources, appropriate metrics, and strategies for visualizing these longitudinal data sets. This paper makes two contributions: (1) it offers the information visualization community a history of how certain ideas evolved, influenced others, and were adopted for widespread use and (2) it provides an example of how such scientometric trajectories of innovations can be gathered and visualized. Guidance for designers is offered, but these conjectures may also be useful to researchers, research managers, science policy analysts, and venture capitalists.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1177/1473871611424815
Information Visualization
Keywords
Field
DocType
data collection,information visualization innovation,longitudinal data set,hyperbolic tree,certain idea,information visualization community,appropriate metrics,cone tree,innovation trajectory,academic publication,early history,information visualization,graphic user interface,treemap,venture capitalist,management science,graphical user interfaces
Data science,Data collection,Data set,Science policy,Hyperbolic tree,Information visualization,Computer science,Simulation,Graphical user interface,Venture capital
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
2
1473-8716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.85
34
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ben Shneiderman1127723081.95
Cody Dunne243727.88
Puneet Sharma327138.61
Ping Wang4111.74