IVC05 Exploration Toolkit

Providing effective and intuitive visualization tools for the InfoVis Contest 2005 tasks is a challenging ambition. Due to the size, complexity and data-type variety of the given dataset, most of the standard analysis techniques are inappropriate to any search for efficient solutions for the contest tasks. Since the dataset contains spatio-temporal, non-spatial and temporal data we need instead a combination of techniques which are specifically able to handle these different types of data. Therefore, to provide effective visualizations for the contest tasks, we created the IVC’05 Toolkit, a framework that contains a variety of visualization and interaction techniques for the exploration of the spatial, non-spatial and temporal patterns in the data . All visualizations and actions in the toolkit are tightly coupled using the well-known linking and brushing concepts.