Flowstrates: An Approach for Visual Exploration of Temporal Origin-Destination Data

dc.contributor.authorBoyandin, Ilyaen_US
dc.contributor.authorBertini, Enricoen_US
dc.contributor.authorBak, Peteren_US
dc.contributor.authorLalanne, Denisen_US
dc.contributor.editorH. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijken_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-21T20:23:42Z
dc.date.available2014-02-21T20:23:42Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractMany origin-destination datasets have become available in the recent years, e.g. flows of people, animals, money, material, or network traffic between pairs of locations, but appropriate techniques for their exploration still have to be developed. Especially, supporting the analysis of datasets with a temporal dimension remains a significant challenge. Many techniques for the exploration of spatio-temporal data have been developed, but they prove to be only of limited use when applied to temporal origin-destination datasets.We present Flowstrates, a new interactive visualization approach in which the origins and the destinations of the flows are displayed in two separate maps, and the changes over time of the flow magnitudes are represented in a separate heatmap view in the middle. This allows the users to perform spatial visual queries, focusing on different regions of interest for the origins and destinations, and to analyze the changes over time provided with the means of flow ordering, filtering and aggregation in the heatmap. In this paper, we discuss the challenges associated with the visualization of temporal origin-destination data, introduce our solution, and present several usage scenarios showing how the tool we have developed supports them.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume30en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01946.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectD.2.2 [Design Tools and Techniques]en_US
dc.subjectUser interfacesen_US
dc.subjectH.5.2 [User Interfaces]en_US
dc.subjectInteraction stylesen_US
dc.titleFlowstrates: An Approach for Visual Exploration of Temporal Origin-Destination Dataen_US
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