Resources on Set Visualization

Visualizing Sets and Set-typed Data

Software Tools, Demos, Videos, and Conference Slides

 

 

Companion website for our survey on set visualization, published in Computer Graphics Forum (application/pdf icon pdf).

A graphical list of set-related tasks is available here.

A printable and more comprehensive list of the resources is available in PDF as supplementary material of the survey.

NEW: The slides of our EuroVis 2014 talk are available here (in Powerpoint format).

 

 

 

New: a publication browser of the surveyed techniques is available here.

New: another publication browser of the surveyed techniques is available here (by Adil Yalçın).

Note: we appreciate if you refer us to related material and techniques for set visualization that we missed, also we welcome your feedback or proposals to our work (contact Bilal Alsallakh or Luana Micallef)

Creative Commons License   All the material on this page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

 

 

Venn and Euler Diagrams

 

eulerAPE

  • Authors: Luana Micallef, Peter Rodgers
  • Software: open-source

 

eulerGlyphs

 

eulerForce

  • Authors: Luana Micallef, Peter Rodgers
  • Software: open-source

 

3-Circle Venn Diagram Applet

  • Authors: Stirling C. Chow, Peter Rodgers
  • Software: Java Applet

 

Wilkinson’s venneuler()

d3venn: Venn Diagrams with D3.js

 

Venn Diagrams with Processing.js

 

EulerView

  • Authors: Paolo Simonetto, David Auber, and Daniel Archambault
  • Software: a plugin for the open-source Tulip toolkit

 

Variants of Euler Diagrams

Untangling Euler Diagrams

 

 Fan Diagrams

 

Overlays

Region-based

 

Bubble Sets

  • Talk: at InfoVis 2009, coming soon (vimeo)
  • Website

 

eXamine

 

DiTop

  • Authors:  D. Oelke, H. Strobelt, C. Rohrdantz, I. Gurevych, and O. Deussen
  •  Video: demonstation
  • Software: Open Source implementation on the website
  • Website

 

VizSter

 

Line-based

 

LineSets

  • Authors: Basak Alper, Nathalie Henry-Riche, Gonzalo Ramos, and Mary Czerwinski
  • Video: demonstation

 

Kelp Diagrams

  • Authors: Kasper Dinkla, Marc Van Kreveld, Bettina Speckmann
  •  Slides, Datasets

 

Parallel Tag Clouds

  • Authors: Collins, Christopher, Fernanda B. Viegas, and Martin Wattenberg
  •  Video: demonstation
  • Website (including the paper and the IEEE VAST 2009 slides)

 

KelpFusion

 

Glyph-based

 

searchCrystal

 

Node-Link Representations

 

Jigsaw

PivotPaths

Eyediagram

 

Matrix Representations

AggreSet

 

ConSet

 

OnSet (PixelLayers)

 

Frequency Grids

  • Authors: Luana Micallef, Pierre Dragicevic, Jean-Daniel Fekete
  • Software: eulerGlyphs (open source)

KMVQL (Boolean Query Specification and Query Result Visualization)

 

UpSet

Aggregation-based Techniques

 

Double-Decker Plot

Parallel Sets

 

Linear Diagrams

  • Authors:  Peter Rodgers
  •  Software:

 

Radial Sets

 

UpSet

 

Singleton Set Distribution View

  • Authors: Kent Wittenburg, Alessio Malizia, Luca Lupo, Georgiy Pekhteryev
  • Slides: AVI 2010

 

Theses on Set Visualization
 

 

2014: Visual Analytics of Large Homogeneous Data - Categorical, Set-typed, and Classification Data

Bilal Alsallakh, PhD Thesis at Vienna University of Technology

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2013: Visualizing Set Relations and Cardinalities Using Venn and Euler Diagrams

Luana Micallef, PhD Thesis at the University of Kent

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2012: Visualisation of Overlapping Sets and Clusters with Euler Diagrams
Paolo Simonetto, PhD Thesis at Université Bordeaux 1
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2008: Set Type Enabled Information Visualization
Wolfgang Freiler, Master’s thesis at Vienna University of Technology
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2007: Generating and drawing area-proportional Euler and Venn diagrams
Stirling C. Chow, PhD Thesis at the University of Victoria.
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