{"title":"Interactive Spatiotemporal Visualization of Phase Space Particle Trajectories Using Distance Plots","authors":"Tyson Neuroth, K. Ma","doi":"10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00035","url":null,"abstract":"The distance plot (or unthresholded recurrence plot) has been shown to be a useful tool for analyzing spatiotemporal patterns in high-dimensional phase space trajectories. We incorporate this technique into an interactive visualization with multiple linked phase plots, and extend the distance plot to also visualize marker particle weights from particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations together with the phase space trajectories. By linking the distance plot with phase plots, one can more easily investigate the spatiotemporal patterns, and by extending the plot to visualize particle weights in conjunction with the phase space trajectories, the visualization better supports the needs of domain experts studying particle-in-cell simulations. We demonstrate our resulting visualization design using particles from an XGC Tokamak fusion simulation.","PeriodicalId":208856,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127373775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What-Why Analysis of Expert Interviews: Analysing Geographically-Embedded Flow Data","authors":"Yalong Yang, Sarah Goodwin","doi":"10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00022","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present our analysis of five expert interviews, each from a different application domain. Such analysis is crucial to understanding the real-world scenarios of analysing geographically-embedded flow data. The results of our analysis show that similar high-level tasks were conducted in different domains. To better describe the targets of these tasks, we proposed three flow-targets for analysing geographically-embedded flow data: single flow, total flow and regional flow.","PeriodicalId":208856,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134346142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ComDia+: An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Comparing, Diagnosing, and Improving Multiclass Classifiers","authors":"Chanhee Park, Jina Lee, Hyunwoo Han, Kyungwon Lee","doi":"10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00044","url":null,"abstract":"Performance analysis is essential for improving classification models. However, existing performance analysis tools do not provide actionable insights such as the cause of misclassification. Machine learning practitioners face difficulties such as prioritizing model, looking over confusion between classes. In addition, existing performance analysis tools that provide feature-level analysis are difficult to apply to image classification problems. This study has been proposed to solve these difficulties. In this paper, we present an interactive visual analytics system for diagnosing the performance of multiclass classification models. Our system is able to compare multiple models, find weaknesses, and obtain actionable insights for improving models. Our visualization consists of three views for analyzing performance at the class, confusion, and instance levels. We demonstrate our system using MNIST handwritten digits data.","PeriodicalId":208856,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114206341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maksim Gomov, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Keshav Dasu, K. Ma
{"title":"An Interactive System for Exploring Historical Fire Data","authors":"Maksim Gomov, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Keshav Dasu, K. Ma","doi":"10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00040","url":null,"abstract":"Wildfires cause immense costs to human life, property, and the environment. As the impact of climate change increases the frequency and severity of wildfires, a renewed effort to understand these phenomena and their catalysts has increased. In this paper, we introduce a system that couples multiple sources of data and visualization to enable analysts to study historical fire data. We show two use cases to demonstrate the effectiveness of our system.","PeriodicalId":208856,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132875428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emoji and Chernoff - A Fine Balancing Act or are we Biased?","authors":"Ricardo Colasanti, R. Borgo, Mark W. Jones","doi":"10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00020","url":null,"abstract":"We seek to answer the question on whether different geometrical attributes within a glyph can bias interpretation of data. We focus on a specific visual encoding, the Emoji, and evaluate its effectiveness at encoding multidimensional features. Given the anthropomorphic nature of the encoding we seek to quantify the amount of bias the encoding itself introduces, and use this to balance the Emoji glyph to remove that bias. We perform our analysis by comparing Emoji with Chernoff faces, of which they can be seen as direct descendant. Results shed light on how this new approach of feature-tuning in glyph design can influence overall effectiveness of novel multidimensional encodings.","PeriodicalId":208856,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123786346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chanhee Park, S. Do, Eunjeong Lee, Hanna Jang, Sungchan Jung, Hyunwoo Han, Kyungwon Lee
{"title":"GitViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Analyzing Development Trends in the Open-Source Software Community","authors":"Chanhee Park, S. Do, Eunjeong Lee, Hanna Jang, Sungchan Jung, Hyunwoo Han, Kyungwon Lee","doi":"10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00028","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes a visualization that can assist computer scientists and data scientists to make decisions by exploring technology trends. While it is important for them to understand the technology trends in the rapidly changing computer science and data science fields, it takes considerable time and knowledge to acquire good information about these trends. Particularly, data/computer scientists with little experience in the field find it difficult to obtain information on such trends. Therefore, we propose a visualization system that can easily and quickly explore the technology trends in computer and data science. This study aims to identify the key technologies and developers in a specific field, and other technologies deeply related to specific technologies, and explore the changes in popularity of technologies, languages, and libraries over time. This study includes two case studies to obtain information using the proposed visualization. We demonstrate our system with GitHub repositories data.","PeriodicalId":208856,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131895730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Interactive Chart of Biography","authors":"R. Khulusi, J. Kusnick, Josef Focht, S. Jänicke","doi":"10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00038","url":null,"abstract":"Joseph Priestley's Chart of Biography is a masterpiece of hand-drawn data visualization. He arranged the lifespans of around 2,000 individuals on a timeline, and the chart obtained great value for teaching purposes. We present a generic, interactive variant of the chart adopting Priestley's basic design principles. Our proposed visualization allows for dynamically defining person groups to be visually compared on different zoom levels. We designed the visualization in cooperation with musicologists having multifaceted research interests on a biographical database of musicians. On the one hand, we enable deriving new relationships between musicians in order to extend the underlying database, and on the other hand, our visualization supports analyzing time-dependent changes of musical institutions. Various usage scenarios outline the benefit of the Interactive Chart of Biography for research in musicology.","PeriodicalId":208856,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126670506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ciara Fletcher, Weidong Huang, David Arness, Quang Vinh Nguyen
{"title":"The Role of Working Memory Capacity in Graph Reading Performance","authors":"Ciara Fletcher, Weidong Huang, David Arness, Quang Vinh Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00017","url":null,"abstract":"We process information in memory and different people have different memory capacity. It is therefore important to understand possible impact of memory capacity when it comes to graph comprehension. In an attempt towards this direction, we conducted a user study investigating the impact of working memory capacity on graph reading task performance. Forty-six university students participated in the study performing a graph reading task with one hundred graph drawings of different complexity levels. Their working memory capacity and task performance (accuracy and time) were measured and recorded. The results of regression analyses indicated that working memory capacity was a significant predictor of performance accuracy, but not for response time. In this paper, we present the details of the study and discuss our findings and limitations of the study. Possible future research directions are also suggested.","PeriodicalId":208856,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114469154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CorFish: Coordinating Emphasis Across Multiple Views Using Spatial Distortion","authors":"Gaëlle Richer, Romain Bourqui, D. Auber","doi":"10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificVis.2019.00009","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of multiple views, coordination is essential to navigate and grasp the relationships lying behind the different juxtaposed views. Linked highlighting is a typical example of coordination where a subset of the data points is emphasized simultaneously on all views. The strength of this approach is that the selected data can be studied within its context. Other approaches have been used to implement coordination such as using varying levels of transparency or visual links. We propose to use spatial distortion to contribute a similar effect in multiple views. It is particularly suited to the context of multiple views since it alleviates the lack of screen space by reallocating it based on a certain definition of user interest. The proposed method targets coordination between views that represent the same entities and readily adapts to various visualization forms. It is based on a user degree-of-interest function, defined on these entities, that acts as a common ground for the distortion of all views. Views are distorted such that empty areas and areas holding entities of lesser interest are compressed to the benefit of areas holding entities of higher interest. To demonstrate its feasibility and versatility, we describe how to technically apply our approach to several common visualization techniques.","PeriodicalId":208856,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117095031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}