Arrange Tables, Networks

and Trees
Parallel Coordinates
• If two neighboring axes have high positive correlation, the line
segments are mostly parallel.

If two axes have high negative correlation, the line segments mostly
cross over each other at a single spot between the axes. The pattern
in between uncorrelated axes is a mix of crossing angles.
parallel coordinates is training time
Radial Layouts
• Radial spatial layout,
• items are distributed around a circle using the angle channel in addition to
one or more linear spatial channels, in contrast to the rectilinear layouts that
use only two spatial channels.
• The natural coordinate system in radial layouts is polar coordinates
• One dimension is measured as an angle from a starting line and the other is
measured as a distance from a center point.
Connection: Link Marks
• Node–link diagrams, where nodes are drawn as point marks and the links
connecting them are drawn as line marks.
• Networks are also very commonly represented as node–link diagrams,
using connection.
• This idiom uses connection marks to indicate the relationships between
items.
• Node–link diagrams in general are well suited for tasks that involve
understanding the network topology
• finding all possible paths from one node to another,
• Finding the shortest path between two nodes,
• finding all the adjacent nodes one hop away from a target node,
• finding nodes that act as a bridge between two components of the network that
would otherwise be disconnected.
Nodes: dozens/hundreds. Links: hundreds.
Nodes: 1000–10,000. Links: 1000–10,000.
Matrix Views
• Network data can also be encoded with a matrix view by deriving a
table from the original network data.
• A network can be visually encoded as an adjacency matrix view
• All of the nodes in the network are laid out along the vertical and
horizontal edges of a square region
• Links between two nodes are indicated by coloring an area mark in
the cell in the matrix that is the intersection between their row and
column.
Nodes: 1000. Links: one milllion.
Containment: Hierarchy Marks
• Containment marks are very effective at showing complete information
about hierarchical structure, in contrast to connection marks that only
show pairwise relationships between two items at once.
• The idiom of treemaps is an alternative to node–link tree drawings, where
the hierarchical relationships are shown with containment rather than
connection.
• All of the children of a tree node are enclosed within the area allocated
that node, creating a nested layout.
• The size of the nodes is mapped to some attribute of the node.
• They are often used when hierarchies are shallow rather than deep.
• Treemaps are very effective for spotting the outliers of very large attribute
values, in this case large files.
Nodes: 1000. Links: one milllion.