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VISIGRAPP 2018: Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications pp 167–192Cite as

TabularVis: An Interactive Relationship Visualization Tool Supported by Optimization and Search Algorithms

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Visualizing relationships is becoming more and more essential nowadays, so we need efficient visualization solutions to meet the requirements of the users. One of its forms is when we use tables to describe the relationships and their associated values. In this work, we present TabularVis, an interactive, web client based application for visualizing relationships based on tabular data. Our visualization technique was inspired by the Table Viewer web application of the popular genome visualization software called Circos. For our solution, we only kept its central idea, and we built our new extensions and features around it. We also propose an automatic sorting solution to reduce the number of intersections in the diagram along with an edge bundling technique to improve the clarity of it. In the paper, we present the features of our visualization, which mainly focuses on improving the readability of the diagram in those cases when the difference between the values of the table is extremely small or large. Also, we compared our solution with Circos in a survey to prove the effectiveness of our proposed features. Beside this, we compared the sorting method with the edge bundling technique as well to confirm their performance. The result of the surveys is also presented in the paper. Furthermore, we provide running time measurements as well to show the effectiveness of the presented methods.

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    György Papp & Roland Kunkli

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  1. University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

    Dominique Bechmann

  2. University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

    Manuela Chessa

  3. University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Paula Cláudio

  4. Research Innovation Center, Apple Inc., San Jose, CA, USA

    Francisco Imai

  5. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Kronobergs Län, Sweden

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  6. LISA - ISTIA, University of Angers, Angers, France

    Paul Richard

  7. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Alexandru Telea

  8. Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France

    Alain Tremeau

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Papp, G., Kunkli, R. (2019). TabularVis: An Interactive Relationship Visualization Tool Supported by Optimization and Search Algorithms. In: Bechmann, D., et al. Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. VISIGRAPP 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 997. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26756-8_8

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