Paper Info
Title
Evaluation of alternative glyph designs for time series data in a small multiple setting
Abstract
We present the results of a controlled experiment to investigate the performance of different temporal glyph designs in a small multiple setting. Analyzing many time series at once is a common yet difficult task in many domains, for example in network monitoring. Several visualization techniques have, thus, been proposed in the literature. Among these, iconic displays or glyphs are an appropriate choice because of their expressiveness and effective use of screen space. Through a controlled experiment, we compare the performance of four glyphs that use different combinations of visual variables to encode two properties of temporal data: a) the position of a data point in time and b) the quantitative value of this data point. Our results show that depending on tasks and data density, the chosen glyphs performed differently. Line Glyphs are generally a good choice for peak and trend detection tasks but radial encodings are more effective for reading values at specific temporal locations. From our qualitative analysis we also contribute implications for designing temporal glyphs for small multiple settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2470654.2466443
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
controlled experiment,different temporal glyph design,data density,specific temporal location,data point,temporal data,appropriate choice,small multiple setting,chosen glyphs,time series data,temporal glyphs,alternative glyph design,glyphs,information visualization,evaluation,time series
Glyph,Data mining,ENCODE,Time series,Information visualization,Computer science,Temporal database,Network monitoring,Small multiple,Creative visualization
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
48
1.48
21
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fuchs, J.120615.29
Fabian Fischer219912.94
Florian Mansmann358935.91
Enrico Bertini4115457.38
Petra Isenberg5147168.00