Publications (6)
NetPanorama: A Declarative Grammar for Network Construction, Transformation, and Visualization
James Scott-Brown, Alexis Pister, Benjamin Bach
This paper introduces NetPanorama, a domain-specific language and declarative grammar for interactive network visualization design that supports multivariate, temporal, and geograp…
Designing a Visualization Atlas: Lessons & Reflections from The UK Co-Benefits Atlas for Climate Mitigation
Jinrui Wang, Alexis Pister, Sian Phillips +6
This paper reports on the process of designing the UK Co-Benefits Atlas, which communicates and publicizes data for climate mitigation. Visualization atlases--an emerging type of p…
A Stochastic Block Hypergraph model
Alexis Pister, Marc Barthelemy
The stochastic block model is widely used to generate graphs with a community structure, but no simple alternative currently exists for hypergraphs, in which more than two nodes ca…
Integrating Prior Knowledge in Mixed Initiative Social Network Clustering
Alexis Pister, Paolo Buono, Jean-Daniel Fekete +2
We propose a new approach -- called PK-clustering -- to help social scientists create meaningful clusters in social networks. Many clustering algorithms exist but most social scien…
Does This Have a Particular Meaning? Interactive Pattern Explanation for Network Visualizations
Xinhuan Shu, Alexis Pister, Junxiu Tang +2
This paper presents an interactive technique to explain visual patterns in network visualizations to analysts who do not understand these visualizations and who are learning to rea…
Scalability in Visualization
Gaëlle Richer, Alexis Pister, Moataz Abdelaal +3
We introduce a conceptual model for scalability designed for visualization research. With this model, we systematically analyze over 120 visualization publications from 1990-2020 t…