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Abstract data has no natural scale and so interactive data visualizations must provide techniques to allow the user to choose their viewpoint and scale. Such techniques are well established in desktop visualization tools. The two most…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Yalong Yang , Maxime Cordeil , Johanna Beyer , Tim Dwyer , Kim Marriott , Hanspeter Pfister

Dealing with visualizations containing large data set is a challenging issue and, in the field of Information Visualization, almost every visual technique reveals its drawback when visualizing large number of items. To deal with this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Enrico Bertini , Giuseppe Santucci

Information visualizations are powerful tools that help users quickly identify patterns, trends, and outliers, facilitating informed decision-making. However, when visualizations incorporate deceptive design elements-such as truncated or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ridwan Mahbub , Mohammed Saidul Islam , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Mizanur Rahman , Mir Tafseer Nayeem , Enamul Hoque

We present a novel visualization-driven illumination model for density plots, a new technique to enhance density plots by effectively revealing the detailed structures in high- and medium-density regions and outliers in low-density regions,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xin Chen , Yunhai Wang , Huaiwei Bao , Kecheng Lu , Jaemin Jo , Chi-Wing Fu , Jean-Daniel Fekete

Although visualization tools are widely available and accessible, not everyone knows the best practices and guidelines for creating accurate and honest visual representations of data. Numerous books and articles have been written to expose…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Leo Yu-Ho Lo , Yifan Cao , Leni Yang , Huamin Qu

Point sets in 2D with multiple classes are a common type of data. A canonical visualization design for them are scatterplots, which do not scale to large collections of points. For these larger data sets, binned aggregation (or binning) is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Florian Heimerl , Chih-Ching Chang , Alper Sarikaya , Michael Gleicher

Finding a particular object in a display is important for viewers in many visualizations, for example, when reacting to brushing or to a highlighted object. This can be enabled by making the target object different in one of the visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Wei Wei , Miguel A. Nacenta , Michelle F. Miranda , Charles Perin

We investigate the ability of individuals to visually validate statistical models in terms of their fit to the data. While visual model estimation has been studied extensively, visual model validation remains under-investigated. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Daniel Braun , Ashley Suh , Remco Chang , Michael Gleicher , Tatiana von Landesberger

We study the structure of representations, defined as approximations of minimal sufficient statistics that are maximal invariants to nuisance factors, for visual data subject to scaling and occlusion of line-of-sight. We derive analytical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Stefano Soatto , Jingming Dong , Nikolaos Karianakis

We present a new comprehensive theory for explaining, exploring, and using pattern as a visual variable in visualization. Although patterns have long been used for data encoding and continue to be valuable today, their conceptual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tingying He , Jason Dykes , Petra Isenberg , Tobias Isenberg

Traditional approaches to data visualization have often focused on comparing different subsets of data, and this is reflected in the many techniques developed and evaluated over the years for visual comparison. Similarly, common workflows…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-27 David Borland , Arran Zeyu Wang , David Gotz

Scatterplots provide a visual representation of bivariate data (or 2D embeddings of multivariate data) that allows for effective analyses of data dependencies, clusters, trends, and outliers. Unfortunately, classical scatterplots suffer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hennes Rave , Vladimir Molchanov , Lars Linsen

Variable importance, interaction measures, and partial dependence plots are important summaries in the interpretation of statistical and machine learning models. In this paper we describe new visualization techniques for exploring these…

Computation · Statistics 2021-10-12 Alan Inglis , Andrew Parnell , Catherine Hurley

Problem-driven visualization work is rooted in deeply understanding the data, actors, processes, and workflows of a target domain. However, an individual's personality traits and cognitive abilities may also influence visualization use.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Kyle Wm. Hall , Anthony Kouroupis , Anastasia Bezerianos , Danielle Albers Szafir , Christopher Collins

Well-designed data visualizations can lead to more powerful and intuitive processing by a viewer. To help a viewer intuitively compare values to quickly generate key takeaways, visualization designers can manipulate how data values are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Cindy Xiong , Vidya Setlur , Benjamin Bach , Kylie Lin , Eunyee Koh , Steven Franconeri

Significant research has provided robust task and evaluation languages for the analysis of exploratory visualizations. Unfortunately, these taxonomies fail when applied to communicative visualizations. Instead, designers often resort to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Eytan Adar , Elsie Lee

Visualizations support rapid analysis of scientific datasets, allowing viewers to glean aggregate information (e.g., the mean) within split-seconds. While prior research has explored this ability in conventional charts, it is unclear if…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Victor A. Mateevitsi , Michael E. Papka , Khairi Reda

An important step for any causal inference study design is understanding the distribution of the treated and control subjects in terms of measured baseline covariates. However, not all baseline variation is equally important. In the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-02 Rachael C. Aikens , Michael Baiocchi

Uncertainty visualizations often emphasize point estimates to support magnitude estimates or decisions through visual comparison. However, when design choices emphasize means, users may overlook uncertainty information and misinterpret…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Alex Kale , Matthew Kay , Jessica Hullman

To interpret information visualizations, observers must determine how visual features map onto concepts. First and foremost, this ability depends on perceptual discriminability; e.g., observers must be able to see the difference between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Karen B. Schloss , Zachary Leggon , Laurent Lessard