Multi-temporal Flow Maps - Looking Back to Look Forward

Alberto Debiasi, Raffaele De Amicis

2014

Abstract

Flow maps represent in a simple and clear way origin-destination data, mostly due to its simple design and intuitive understanding. In flow maps, aggregation techniques can be of valuable use because they reduce the visual clutter (e.g. each flow is easier to trace). The main objectiveof the research is to automatically generate flow maps and represent also multivariate attributes with temporal dimensions through interaction techniques, animations and the use of the 3D. Usually when there is the need to represent spatio-temporal data, the time dimension is simply associated to the z axis and this is a limit. A smart use of this dimension can open big opportunities to novel visualization techniques.

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Debiasi A. and De Amicis R. (2014). Multi-temporal Flow Maps - Looking Back to Look Forward . In Doctoral Consortium - DCVISIGRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN Not Available, pages 40-46


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@conference{dcvisigrapp14,
author={Alberto Debiasi and Raffaele De Amicis},
title={Multi-temporal Flow Maps - Looking Back to Look Forward},
booktitle={Doctoral Consortium - DCVISIGRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={40-46},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={},
isbn={Not Available},
}


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JO - Doctoral Consortium - DCVISIGRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
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AU - Debiasi A.
AU - De Amicis R.
PY - 2014
SP - 40
EP - 46
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