TY  - CONF
TI  - A Guide to Visualization Guidelines for Node-Link Representations
AU  - Ballweg, Kathrin
AU  - Schulz, Hans-Jörg
AU  - Pohl, Margit
AU  - Wallner, Günter
AU  - v. Landesberger, Tatiana
AB  - Graphs are a quite simple data structure. They describe objects and their connections. However, the creation of its visualization is quite challenging. It encompasses the decision for the general visualization type and, additionally, the decisions for the visualization of the different visualization components. Assuming node-link diagrams, the decision space encompasses all steps of creating a graph from node and edge layout via node and edge color and form upto node labeling. There are plenty of guidelines. When a designer draws a particular graph, then she needs to apply the right guidelines to the graph at hand. But how should the visualization designer know what to use (actionability) and when (scope (generalizability))? How should she combine them? And when are guidelines transferable to the graph at hand (e.g., from general to weighted graph)? Such guide to guidelines would be useful. However, we are not aware of a comprehensive overview of network visualization guidelines. We present a set of examples underlying this need.
C1  - Baltimore, MD, USA
C3  - Proc. of the Workshop on Creation, Curation, Critique and Conditioning of Principles and Guidelines in Visualization (C4PGV)
DA  - 2016///
PY  - 2016
UR  - http://c4pgv.swansea.ac.uk/Ballweg-C4PGV-2016.pdf
ER  -