Rotate or Wrap? Interactive Visualisations of Cyclical Data on Cylindrical or Toroidal Topologies

Chen, Kun-Ting; Dwyer, Tim; Bach, Benjamin; Marriott, Kim

doi:10.1109/tvcg.2021.3114693

Cited by 6 publications

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“…Outside of genomics-specific work, circular visualizations [DLR09] (also called radial) have attracted substantial research attention. Radial charts are often used for temporal data, due to their cyclical nature [WDG * 20,BCPR22,CDBM22,MM18,BLIC19,BW14]. Some previous efforts have compared the two layouts, from different angles.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Should I make it round? Suitability of circular and linear layouts for comparative tasks with matrix and connective data

Ståhlbom,

Molin,

Ynnerman

et al. 2024

Computer Graphics Forum

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Visual representations based on circular shapes are frequently used in visualization applications. One example are circos plots within bioinformatics, which bend graphs into a wheel of information with connective lines running through the center like spokes. The results are aesthetically appealing and impressive visualizations that fit long data sequences into a small quadratic space. However, the authors' experiences are that when asked, a visualization researcher would generally advise against making visualizations with radial layouts. Upon reviewing the literature we found that there is evidence that circular layouts are preferable in some cases, but we found no clear evidence for what layout is preferable for matrices and connective data in particular, which both are common data types in circos plots. In this work, we thus performed a user study to compare circular and linear layouts. The tasks are inspired by genomics data, but our results generalize to many other application areas, involving comparison and connective data. To build the prototype we utilized Gosling, a grammar for visualizing genomics data. We contribute empirical evidence on the suitedness of linear versus circular layouts, adding to the specific and general knowledge concerning perception of circular graphs. In addition, we contribute a case study evaluation of the grammar Gosling as a rapid prototyping language, confirming its utility and providing guidance on suitable areas for future development.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Should I make it round? Suitability of circular and linear layouts for comparative tasks with matrix and connective data

Ståhlbom,

Molin,

Ynnerman

et al. 2024

Computer Graphics Forum

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“…Chen provides several examples of toroidal and spherical drawings of real‐world graphs in Chapter 2 of [CHE22].…”

Section: Contributionmentioning

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“…We include graph visualization techniques that put arbitrary graphs on the sphere (not necessarily geographic), as well as in other geometric spaces. Chen [CHE22] describes a systematic exploration of the design space for wrappable visualizations, which includes spherical and toroidal graph visualizations, but not hyperbolic visualizations.…”

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State of the Art of Graph Visualization in non‐Euclidean Spaces

Miller,

Bhatia,

Kobourov

2024

Computer Graphics Forum

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Visualizing graphs and networks in non‐Euclidean space can have benefits such as natural focus+context in hyperbolic space and the familiarity of interactions in spherical space. Despite work on these topics going back to the mid 1990s, there is no survey, or a part of a survey for this area of research. In this paper we review and categorize over 60 relevant papers and analyze them by geometry, (e.g., spherical, hyperbolic, torus), by contribution (e.g., technique, evaluation, proof, application), and by graph class (e.g., tree, planar, complex).

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Towards Better Utilization of Haptic Interaction in Visualization: Design Space and Knob Prototype

Zhang,

Sun,

Sun

et al. 2024

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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Rotate or Wrap? Interactive Visualisations of Cyclical Data on Cylindrical or Toroidal Topologies

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

Should I make it round? Suitability of circular and linear layouts for comparative tasks with matrix and connective data

Should I make it round? Suitability of circular and linear layouts for comparative tasks with matrix and connective data

State of the Art of Graph Visualization in non‐Euclidean Spaces

Towards Better Utilization of Haptic Interaction in Visualization: Design Space and Knob Prototype

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