Computer Graphics

University of California - Berkeley

Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations


Abstract

We investigate techniques for visualizing time series data and evaluate their effect in value comparison tasks. We compare line charts with

Citation

Jeffrey Heer, Nicholas Kong, and Maneesh Agrawala. "Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations". ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2009.

Supplemental Material

For further details, including videos and supplmental materials, please see the project page hosted on the Visualization Lab website at http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/horizon/.