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Understanding the activities in large-scale organizations such as big companies is very important. A challenge in the information visualization field is how to combine a representation of the global structure of an organization with representations of each activity. We developed a representation technique to provide a panoramic view of such activities. The representation embeds charts expressing activities into cells of a treemap. By using this representation, both quantitative and temporal aspects of activities can be seen simultaneously. We also developed an analysis tool called “Series at a Glance,” which provides functions to manipulate the representation. The tool helps in the analysis of tens of thousands of activities by providing useful visual information.
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Misue, K., Yazaki, S. (2013). Panoramic View for Visual Analysis of Large-Scale Activity Data. In: La Rosa, M., Soffer, P. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36285-9_76
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