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Visualizing Diversity and Depth over a Set of Objects
September/October 2007 (vol. 27 no. 5)
pp. 35-45
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Jason Pearlman, Penny Rheingans, Marie des Jardins, "Visualizing Diversity and Depth over a Set of Objects," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 35-45, September/October, 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2007.139,
author = {Jason Pearlman and Penny Rheingans and Marie des Jardins},
title = {Visualizing Diversity and Depth over a Set of Objects},
journal ={IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
volume = {27},
number = {5},
issn = {0272-1716},
year = {2007},
pages = {35-45},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2007.139},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
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PY - 2007
KW - visualization
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Jason Pearlman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Penny Rheingans, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Marie des Jardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
When visualizing a set of objects, it can be useful to visualize both the set as a whole and the individual attributes of each member of the set. A user may be interested in whether the set includes objects with specific attribute values, but also care about the distribution of attribute values within the set. The authors use the term depth to refer to the prevalence of particular desired values in the set, and diversity to refer to the distribution of these values across a range. Their approach for visualizing a set of objects uses glyphs overlaid on a composite representation of the entire set to convey objects' depth and the set's diversity. They test and apply this technique to three application domains: analyzing student applicant pools of a particular school or department, building an effective fantasy football team, and analyzing traffic activity on a network.

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Index Terms:
visualization, glyph visualization, multivariate visualization, multidimensional visualization, barycentric coordinates, background overlay
Citation:
Jason Pearlman, Penny Rheingans, Marie des Jardins, "Visualizing Diversity and Depth over a Set of Objects," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 35-45, Sept.-Oct. 2007, doi:10.1109/MCG.2007.139
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