arc diagrams: visualizing structures in strings

Arc Diagrams:Visualizing Structures in Strings

Martin WattenbergIBM ResearchOne Rogers StreetCambridge MA 02142mwatten@us.ibm.com

Dot Plot

Dot Plot Patterns

Basic Definition

1. Identical 2. Non-overlapping

3. Consecutive 4. Maximal

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi

Vivaldi - Autumn

Cluster and Calendar based Visualization of Time Series Data

Jarke J. van WijkEindhoven University of TechnologyDept. of Mathematics and Computing ScienceP.O. Box 513, 5600 MB EindhovenThe Netherlandsvanwijk@win.tue.nl

Edward R. van SelowNeth. Energy Research Foundation ECNP.O. Box 1, 1755 ZG PettenThe Netherlandsvanselow@ecn.n

Power Demand by Hour and Day

Number of Employees in the Office over Time

Power Demand over Time

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2. Church, K.W., and Helfman, J.I. "Dotplot: A Program for ExploringSelf-Similarity in Millions of Lines of Text and Code", Proceedings ofthe 24th Symposium on the Interface, Computing Science andStatistics V24, pp. 58-67, March, 1992.

3. M. Wattenberg, "The Shape of Song."http://www.turbulence.org/works/Song, 2001.

4. Jarke J. Van Wijk , Edward R. Van Selow, “Cluster and CalendarBased Visualization of Time Series Data”, Proceedings of the 1999IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, p.4, October 24-29,1999.

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