Intercept Graph: An Interactive Radial Visualization for Comparison of State Changes

Abstract

Figure 1: Comparison of a Intercept Graph(a) and other existing visualization tools for state change comparison, i.e. slope graphs (b) and grouped bar charts (c), representing the Points per Games (PPG) changes of 321 players across two seasons from a basketball statistics. The changes of PPG in two seasons before and after are indicated by intercepted line segment, line slopes and clustered bars' differences of (a), (b) and (c), respectively. (a)(left) accentuates players with top 30 PPG changes of the rising (left semi-circle, red) and dropping (right semi-circle, green) trends.