Event Line View: Interactive Visual Analysis of Irregular Time-Dependent Data

In this paper we present a novel approach to visualize irregularly occurring events. We introduce the event line view designed specifically for such events data (a subset of time dependent data). The event line view is integrated in a coordinated multiple views (CMV) system and linked with other conventional views to support interactive visual analysis. The main idea is to analyze events relative to two categorical attributes from a multidimensional multivariate dataset. Since we are interested in the categorical dimension we have also integrated and linked the tag cloud view in the CMV system. To the best of our knowledge this is the first integration of the tag cloud view in a CMV system. The tag cloud view can depict a ratio of the selected items versus the non-selected items.