Summary: Sizing the Horizon: The Effects of Chart Size and Layering
on the Graphical Perception of Time Series Visualizations
Jeffrey Heer1
, Nicholas Kong2
, and Maneesh Agrawala2
1
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305 USA
jheer@cs.stanford.edu
2
Computer Science Division
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 USA
{nkong, maneesh}@cs.berkeley.edu
ABSTRACT
We investigate techniques for visualizing time series data
and evaluate their effect in value comparison tasks. We
compare line charts with horizon graphs--a space-efficient
time series visualization technique--across a range of chart

Source: Agrawala, Maneesh - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley
O'Brien, James F. - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences