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TimeSlice: interactive faceted browsing of timeline data

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Jian Zhao,

Steven M. Drucker,

Danyel Fisher,

Donald BrinkmanAuthors Info & Claims

AVI '12: Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

Pages 433 - 436

https://doi.org/10.1145/2254556.2254639

Published: 21 May 2012 Publication History

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Temporal events with multiple sets of metadata attributes, i. e., facets, are ubiquitous across different domains. The capabilities of efficiently viewing and comparing events data from various perspectives are critical for revealing relationships, making hypotheses, and discovering patterns. In this paper, we present TimeSlice, an interactive faceted visualization of temporal events, which allows users to easily compare and explore timelines with different attributes on a set of facets. By directly manipulating the filtering tree, a dynamic visual representation of queries and filters in the facet space, users can simultaneously browse the focused timelines and their contexts at different levels of detail, which supports efficient navigation of multi-dimensional events data. Also presented is an initial evaluation of TimeSlice with two datasets - famous deceased people and US daily flight delays.

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DOI:10.1145/2254556

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Università di Salerno, Italy

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