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Item Uncertainty Visualization of Stenotic Regions in Vascular Structures(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Ristovski, Gordan; Hahn, Horst K.; Linsen, Lars; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergStenosis refers to the thinning of the inner surface (lumen) of vascular structures. Detecting stenoses and correctly estimating their degree is crucial in clinical settings for proper treatment planning. Such a planning involves a visual assessment, which in case of vascular structures is frequently based on 3D visual representations of the vessels. However, since vessel segmentation is affected by various sources of errors and noise in the imaging and image processing pipeline, it is crucial to capture and visually convey the uncertainty in a 3D visual representation. We propose a novel approach for visualizing the shape deviation of different probability levels in vascular data, where the probability levels are computed from a probabilistic segmentation approach.Item A High-Dimensional Data Quality Metric using Pareto Optimality(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Post, Tobias; Wischgoll, Thomas; Hamann, Bernd; Hagen, Hans; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergThe representation of data quality within established high-dimensional data visualization techniques such as scatterplots and parallel coordinates is still an open problem. This work offers a scale-invariant measure based on Pareto optimality that is able to indicate the quality of data points with respect to the Pareto front. In cases where datasets contain noise or parameters that cannot easily be expressed or evaluated mathematically, the presented measure provides a visual encoding of the environment of a Pareto front to enable an enhanced visual inspection.Item Integrating Guided Clustering in Visual Analytics to Support Domain Expert Reasoning Processes(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Mathisen, Andreas; Nielsen, Matthias; Grønbæk, Kaj; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergRecent research shows promise in combining Information Visualization (IV) and Machine Learning (ML) to assist data analysis performed by domain experts. However, this approach presents non-trivial challenges, in particular when the goal is to incorporate knowledge provided by the domain expert in underlying ML algorithms. To address these challenges, we present an analytical process and a visual analytics tool that uses visual queries to capture examples from the domain experts' existing reasoning process which will guide the subsequent clustering. Our work is motivated by a collaboration with personnel at the Danish Business Authority, who are interested in two types of insights: (1) On which data dimensions is a selected subset of companies different from the remaining companies? (2) Which other companies lie within the same multi-dimensional subspace? The poster will illustrate a real analysis scenario, where the presented analytic process allows auditors to use their knowledge of identified "suspicious" companies to kick-start the analysis for others.Item Visualization Taxonomy based on the Specification of User's Goal and Data Dimensions(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Kaur, Pawandeep; König-Ries, Birgitta; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergIn this paper we present a visual task taxonomy based on user goals derived via our extensive study, different data dimensions, and available visualization types. This taxonomy will be used in the creation of a visualization system that will assist users in the selection of more appropriate visualizations based on the specification of the task they want to perform and the available data dimensions.Item Towards an Adaptive Framework for Real-Time Visualization of Streaming Big Data(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Khan, Amin M.; Gonçalves, Daniel; Leão, Duarte C.; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergBig data poses new challenges and the need for flexible, interactive, and dynamic visualization techniques. Existing approaches, especially in enterprise data visualization with static graphics or interactive dashboards, are limited at the scale of big data, given the volume and diversity of data to consider. Streaming data further compounds on the problem with the need for real-time analytics and visualizations. On the data acquisition and collection side of things, traditional business analytics platforms are being extended with support for technologies such as Apache Spark for improvement in performance. However, for real-time data visualization for streaming data, it is necessary to go beyond Apache Spark with in-memory processing and new data visualization idioms. We propose a framework for the dynamic visualization of real-time streaming big data, resilient to both its volume and rate of change. Some of the different directions we explore include: (a) the efficient processing and consumption of streaming data; (b) the automated detection of relevant changes in the data stream, highlighting entities that merit a detailed analysis; (c) the choice of the best idioms to visualize big data, possibly leading to the development of new visualization idioms; (d) real-time visualization changes.Item MDS-based Visual Survey of Biological Data Visualization Techniques(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Kerren, Andreas; Kucher, Kostiantyn; Li, Yuan-Fang; Schreiber, Falk; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergData visualization is of increasing importance in the Biosciences. During the past 15 years, a great number of novel methods and tools for biological data visualization have been developed and published in various journals and conference proceedings. As a consequence, keeping an overview of state-of-the-art visualization research has become increasingly challenging for both biology researchers as well as visualization researchers. To address this challenge, we have reviewed visualization research for the Biosciences and created an interactive web-based visualization tool, the BioVis Explorer. BioVis Explorer allows the exploration of published visualization methods in interactive and intuitive ways, including faceted browsing and associations with related methods.Item Visual Analysis of Geolocated Echo Chambers in Social Media(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Hundt, Michael; Schneider, Bruno; El-Assady, Mennatallah; Keim, Daniel A.; Diehl, Alexandra; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergIn news media, echo chambers refer to situations in which information is amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition. The characteristic of an echo chamber is, therefore, the absence of controversial discussions and a narrow set of opinions about a topic. We propose the use of Visual Analytics to describe spatiotemporal distributions of echo chambers using Twitter data, for specific geolocated events, such as concerts, strikes, demonstrations, etc. We analyze the echo chambers for Boston Marathon Bombing that took place on April 15, 2013. The social groups are displayed by a matrix view containing all connected components of the tweet mention graphs. To identify similar opinions, as well as, the diversity of topics in a discussion, we apply text classification and sentiment analysis. Lastly, we present initial findings based on real-world data.Item Quantitative Comparison of Treemap Techniques for Time-Dependent Hierarchies(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Vernier, Eduardo Faccin; Comba, Joao L. D.; Telea, Alex C.; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergHierarchical data in which leaf nodes have associated attributes appear in several applications. Rectangular Treemaps (RTs) were designed to display this type of data by tightly packing cells representing the tree nodes, with additional information stored in the cell sizes and/or colors. For dynamic hierarchies, RTs have to obey several requirements regarding the optimal aspect ratio of cells, but also the stability of layout in presence of data changes. While static RTs studied the first requirement well, far less information is available on how RTs behave vs both requirements for dynamic data. We study how four known RT methods compare over several real-world dynamic hierarchies, and highlight how recent RT methods can be adapted to effectively handle optimal cell ratios and stability.Item An Interactive Visual Representation to Explore Association with Hierarchical Social Circles(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Humayoun, Shah Rukh; Ali, Syed Hammad; AlTarawneh, Ragaad; Ebert, Achim; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergShowing the relations between the contacts of an ego network, a subset of a large social network, and these contacts' associations to different social circles enables us exploring inside behavior of the underlying ego network. Normally, these social circles contain multiple hierarchies in them and many times the social circles at the second or lower level in the hierarchy are non-mutually exclusive. In this work, we propose an intuitive design solution to visualize an ego network with associated social circles, where the inside Chord diagram represents the contacts and their relations in an ego network while the outside arcs represent the associated social circles, keeping their hierarchies and the non-mutually exclusive property. Our HiSoC-Vis tool provides a number of interaction and filtering options to make the resulting visualization more intuitive and customizable.Item Visualization of Temporal Logic Specifications(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Scott-Brown, James; Papachristodoulou, Antonis; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergThe desired behaviour of a system can be formally specified using a temporal logic, and used to check whether a candidate design meets this specification, or to automatically design a system that does. Such techniques are in principle applicable to a wide range of types of systems, but their current extent of use does not fulfill their potential. One limitation has been the difficulty of writing and reading formal specifications. We present preliminary work on a visual method of viewing and editing specifications that is intended to address this challenge.Item A Visual Approach for Text Analysis Using Multiword Topics(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Mun, Seongmin; Desagulier, Guillaume; Lee, Kyungwon; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergTopics in a text corpus include features and information; visualizing these topics can improve a user's understanding of the corpus. Topics can be broadly divided into two categories: those whose meaning can be described in one word and those whose meaning in expressed through a combination of words. The latter type can be described as multiword expressions and consists of a combination of different words. However, analysis of multiword topics requires systematic analysis to extract accurate topic results. Therefore, we propose a visual system that accurate extracts topic results with multiple word combinations. For this study, we utilize the text of 957 speeches from 43 U.S. presidents (from George Washington to Barack Obama) as corpus data. Our visual system is divided into two parts: First, our system refines the database by topic, including multiword topics. Through data processing, we systematically analyze the accurate extraction of multiword topics. In the second part, users can confirm the details of this result with a word cloud and simultaneously verify the result with the raw corpus. These two parts are synchronized and the desired value of N in the N-gram model, topics, and presidents examined can be altered. In this case study of U.S. presidential speech data, we verify the effectiveness and usability of our system.Item Power Efficiency of Volume Raycasting on Mobile Devices(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Heinemann, Moritz; Bruder, Valentin; Frey, Steffen; Ertl, Thomas; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergPower efficiency is one of the most important factors for the development of compute-intensive applications in the mobile domain. In this work, we evaluate and discuss the power consumption of a direct volume rendering app based on raycasting on a mobile system. For this, we investigate the influence of a broad set of algorithmic parameters, which are relevant for performance and rendering quality, on the energy usage of the system. Additionally, we compare an OpenCL implementation to a variant using OpenGL. By means of a variety of examples, we demonstrate that numerous factors can have a significant impact on power consumption. In particular, we also discuss the underlying reasons for the respective effects.Item Memory Efficient Parallel Ray-casting Algorithm for Unstructured Grid Volume Rendering(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Kim, Duksu; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergWe propose a novel memory efficient parallel ray casting algorithm for unstructured grid. To reduce the high memory consumption of a previous work (i.e. Bunyk), we use a small size of local buffer for each thread to keep view dependent information for most recently visited faces. To improve the utilization efficiency of a local buffer, we propose an index-based hash function and a novel group traversal scheme. With our method, a small size buffer achieves a high hit ratio (i.e. utilization efficiency). As a result, we achieved a compatible performance with Bunyk while using less than 1% of memory space for view dependent face information. Also, our method shows even better performance than Bunyk for a large dataset since the buffer size is small enough to utilize CPU caches and our traversal scheme maximally takes advantage of the early ray termination optimization.Item Visually Analyzing Parameter Influence on Optical Coherence Tomography Data in Ophthalmology(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Röhlig, Martin; Luboschik, Martin; Prakasam, Ruby Kala; Stachs, Oliver; Schumann, Heidrun; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergOptical coherence tomography (OCT) enables noninvasive high-resolution imaging of the human retina and therefore, plays a fundamental role in detecting a wide range of ocular diseases. Yet, OCT data often vary in quality and show strong parameter dependencies. We propose a visual analysis approach to support users in understanding the influence of parameters on different aspects of the data. First, we outline the problem scope and derive requirements for a visual parameter analysis of OCT data. Second, we devise matched visual designs that disclose the impact of specific parameter values and the relationships between multiple parameter settings. With our systematic approach we aim at helping users in choosing suitable parameter settings and finding a balance between acquisition effort and data quality.Item Responsive Data Visualisation(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Andrews, Keith; Smrdel, Aleš; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergIn responsive web design, web pages are assembled from flexible components which adapt to the characteristics of the display device. For web pages to be truly responsive, any charts or visualisations embedded within them must themselves be responsive. This paper looks at the principles of responsive web design as applied to web-based information visualisations. Approaches are presented through which four commonly used visualisations (line chart, bar chart, parallel coordinates, and scatterplot) can be made responsive.Item Visualising Data with L2(The Eurographics Association, 2017) McNeill, Graham; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergL2 is a new compile-to-JavaScript language for data wrangling, analysis and visualisation. The language is used in its own interactive environment (desktop or browser-based); compiled code will run in any browser or Node.js. To visualise data, L2 uses high-level libraries for simple plots, but also makes it easy to create SVG or canvas-based visualisations from scratch. Here, we discuss the various approaches to visualising data in L2 and consider a simple example.Item Diggersdiaries: Using Text Analysis to Support Exploration and Reading in a Large Document Collection(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Vilaplana, Jaume Nualart; Pérez-Montoro, Mario; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergThis work introduces Diggersdiaries, an web interface to a historical textual document collection. Digital collections are rich in content, but traditional search-based and faceted-based interfaces cannot represent their richness efficiently - e.g. for time-poor and casual browsing. This project addresses this challenge using data analysis (topic models) transparently integrated into reading-centric interface as a two-level browsing menu of semantic topics. The interface offers multiple exploration visualization tools. Its main contribution it is that the interface is fully reading-oriented. The tool is available at http://diggersdiaries.orgItem Visualization of the Forever 27 Club(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Naik, Suchismita; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergThis visualization is the timeline of the popular musicians who died at the age of 27, often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse, violent means such as suicide or homicide. The timeline is distributed according to the cause of the death and year of death. The main goal of this visualization is to make users find their own stories through data and also to create awareness among a large user base. The inspiration of this visualization is a gramophone where the details are displayed according to the position of the pointer. The choice of this style of visualization is made to build more empathy towards the fans of these artists in order to glorify the short-lived lives of these great artists. Interfaces are designed so as to make the visualization more interactive by providing the filters such as genres and artist types, single-frame interactivity to maintain a consistent narration flow and having the detail-on-demands feature in order to reduce the cognitive load on the users.Item EuroVis 2017 - Posters: Frontmatter(Eurographics Association, 2017) Puig Puig, Anna; Isenberg, Tobias;Item ConTraffic Visual Analytics in Support to Customs Risk-Analysis(The Eurographics Association, 2017) Poulymenopoulou, Mikaela; Tsois, Aris; Anna Puig Puig and Tobias IsenbergCustoms risk analysis is crucial for detecting fraud and contraband goods in the massive flows of internationally traded goods. Most of non-bulk goods are transported in shipping containers and, as customs can control only about 2% of them, efficient customs risk analysis is crucial. In support to EU customs, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has developed the ConTraffic visual analytics research prototype. This paper presents the main architectural elements of the application and some visualization and user-interaction techniques selected to enable the route-based risk analysis of large number of shipping containers.