Periphery Plots for Contextualizing Heterogeneous Time-Based Charts

18 Jun 2019  ·  Bryce Morrow, Trevor Manz, Arlene E. Chung, Nils Gehlenborg, David Gotz ·

Patterns in temporal data can often be found across different scales, such as days, weeks, and months, making effective visualization of time-based data challenging. Here we propose a new approach for providing focus and context in time-based charts to enable interpretation of patterns across time scales. Our approach employs a focus zone with a time and a second axis, that can either represent quantities or categories, as well as a set of adjacent periphery plots that can aggregate data along the time, value, or both dimensions. We present a framework for periphery plots and describe two use cases that demonstrate the utility of our approach.

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