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Automated Responsive Thematic Mapping with Layout Guides
Arjen Simons, Sarah Schöttler, Wouter Meulemans +2
Thematic maps visually communicate statistical information about spatial units such as countries or states. They must balance the individual readability of those map elements that…
Minimizing Vertical Length in Linked Bar Charts
Steven van den Broek, Marc van Kreveld, Wouter Meulemans +1
A linked bar chart is the augmentation of a traditional bar chart where each bar is partitioned into blocks and pairs of blocks are linked using orthogonal lines that pass over int…
Summarizing Classed Region Maps with a Disk Choreme
Steven van den Broek, Wouter Meulemans, Andreas Reimer +1
Chorematic diagrams are highly reduced schematic maps of geospatial data and processes. They can visually summarize complex situations using only a few simple shapes (choremes) pla…
Optimizing Symbol Visibility through Displacement
Bernd Gärtner, Vishwas Kalani, Meghana M. Reddy +3
In information visualization, the position of symbols often encodes associated data values. When visualizing data elements with both a numerical and a categorical dimension, positi…
Visual Complexity of Point Set Mappings
Wouter Meulemans, Arjen Simons, Kevin Verbeek
We study the visual complexity of animated transitions between point sets. Although there exist many metrics for point set similarity, these metrics are not adequate for this purpo…