Paper Info
Title
TimeBench: a data model and software library for visual analytics of time-oriented data.
Abstract
Time-oriented data play an essential role in many Visual Analytics scenarios such as extracting medical insights from collections of electronic health records or identifying emerging problems and vulnerabilities in network traffic. However, many software libraries for Visual Analytics treat time as a flat numerical data type and insufficiently tackle the complexity of the time domain such as calendar granularities and intervals. Therefore, developers of advanced Visual Analytics designs need to implement temporal foundations in their application code over and over again. We present TimeBench, a software library that provides foundational data structures and algorithms for time-oriented data in Visual Analytics. Its expressiveness and developer accessibility have been evaluated through application examples demonstrating a variety of challenges with time-oriented data and long-term developer studies conducted in the scope of research and student projects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TVCG.2013.206
Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
developer accessibility,software library,advanced visual analytics design,application code,application example,flat numerical data type,time-oriented data,visual analytics,visual analytics scenario,data model,foundational data structure,data visualization,information visualization,data models,data structures,temporal data,data visualisation
Data science,Business analytics,Software analytics,Computer science,Web analytics,Visual analytics,Semantic analytics,Interactive visual analysis,Cultural analytics,Analytics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
12
1941-0506
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.68
26
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Rind118714.75
Tim Lammarsch213210.06
wolfgang aigner384251.72
Bilal Alsallakh419611.71
Silvia Miksch52212174.85