Mirroring Sankey Diagrams for Visual Comparison Tasks

Zana Vosough, Dietrich Kammer, Mandy Keck, Rainer Groh

2018

Abstract

Complex data sets require suitable information visualizations. With the rapidly increasing amount and complexity of data, the need for suitable interaction techniques to perform various data analyzing tasks is also growing. Flow diagrams are a powerful tool to understand the structure in hierarchical data sets. In many application scenarios, there is a need to quickly understand all facets in the data and compare different versions to make executive decisions. In order to illustrate our concepts, we selected Product Lifecycle Costing as application domain in which comparison tasks play an important role. On the one hand, an effective comparison of different versions needs to be visually presented to the user. On the other hand, different dimensions of the components need to be considered. We propose a mirroring method with the appropriate interaction techniques based on Sankey diagrams that address both issues.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Vosough Z., Kammer D., Keck M. and Groh R. (2018). Mirroring Sankey Diagrams for Visual Comparison Tasks. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 2: IVAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-289-9, SciTePress, pages 349-355. DOI: 10.5220/0006651203490355

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp18,
author={Zana Vosough and Dietrich Kammer and Mandy Keck and Rainer Groh},
title={Mirroring Sankey Diagrams for Visual Comparison Tasks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 2: IVAPP},
year={2018},
pages={349-355},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006651203490355},
isbn={978-989-758-289-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2018) - Volume 2: IVAPP
TI - Mirroring Sankey Diagrams for Visual Comparison Tasks
SN - 978-989-758-289-9
AU - Vosough Z.
AU - Kammer D.
AU - Keck M.
AU - Groh R.
PY - 2018
SP - 349
EP - 355
DO - 10.5220/0006651203490355
PB - SciTePress