Comparison of Multiple Weighted Hierarchies: Visual Analytics for Microbe Community Profiling
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2011
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Abstract
We propose visual analytics techniques to support concurrent comparison of hundreds of cumulatively weighted instances of a single hierarchy. This includes a node-link representation of the hierarchy where nodes depict the weights of all instances with high-density heat maps that are grouped and aligned to ease cross-referencing. Hierarchy exploration is facilitated by smoothly animated expansion and collapse of its branches. Detailed infor- mation about hierarchy structure, weights, and meta-data is provided by secondary linked visualizations. These techniques have been implemented in a prototype tool, in which the computational analysis concerns have been strictly separated from the visualization concerns. The analysis algorithms are extensible via a script engine. We discuss the effectiveness of our techniques for the visual analytic process of microbe community profiling experts.
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@article{:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01963.x,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Comparison of Multiple Weighted Hierarchies: Visual Analytics for Microbe Community Profiling}},
author = {Dinkla, Kasper and Westenberg, M. A. and Timmerman, H. M. and Hijum, S.A.F.T. van and Wijk, J. J. van},
year = {2011},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01963.x}
}