See What You Know: Analyzing Data Distribution to Improve Density Map Visualization

Bertini, Enrico; Girolamo, Alessio Di; Santucci, Giuseppe

See What You Know: Analyzing Data Distribution to Improve Density Map Visualization

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Date

2007

Authors

Bertini, Enrico
Girolamo, Alessio Di
Santucci, Giuseppe

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Density maps allow for visually rendering density differences, usually mapping density values to a grey or color scale. The paper analyzes the drawbacks arising from the commonly used strategies and introduces a novel technique able to improve the overall mapping process. The technique is driven by statistical knowledge about the density distribution and a set of quality metrics allows for validating, in an objective way, its effectiveness.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/163-170
,
booktitle = {Eurographics/ IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization
},
editor = {K. Museth and T. Moeller and A. Ynnerman
},
title = {{See What You Know: Analyzing Data Distribution to Improve Density Map Visualization
}},
author = {Bertini, Enrico and 
Girolamo, Alessio Di and 
Santucci, Giuseppe
},
year = {2007
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5296
},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-45-6
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/163-170
}
}