Project Mission
Social networks are visual in nature. Visualization techniques have been applied in social analysis since the field began. We aim to develop interactive visual analytic tools for complex social networks.
Visual Analysis of Large Heterogeneous Social Networks by Semantic and Structure
Zeqian Shen, Kwan-Liu Ma, Tina Eliassi-Rad
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Volume 12, Number 6, December, 2006, pp. 1427-1439
Social network analysis is an active area of study beyond sociology. It uncovers the invisible relationships between actors in a network and provides understanding of social processes and behaviors. It has become an important technique in a variety of application areas such as the Web, organizational studies, and homeland security. This paper presents a visual analytics tool, OntoVis, for understanding large, heterogeneous social networks, in which nodes and links could represent different concepts and relations, respectively ...
BiblioViz: A System for Visualizing Bibliography Information
Zeqian Shen, Michael Ogawa, Soon Tee Teoh, Kwan-Liu Ma
In Proceedings of 2006 Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information Visualization
February, 2006, pp. 93-102
The InfoVis 2004 contest led to the development of several bibliography visualization systems. Even though each of these systems offers some unique views of the bibliography data, there is no single best system offering all the desired views. We have thus studied how to consolidate the desirable unctionalities of these systems into a cohesive design. We have also designed a few novel visualization methods ...
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