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 ( 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)

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

Authors: Luana Micallef
Software: open-source

eulerForce

Authors: Luana Micallef, Peter Rodgers
Software: open-sourc e

3-Circle Venn Diagram Applet

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

Wilkinson’s venneuler()

Authors: Leland Wilkinson
Software:
- R + Java code
- online JavaScript prototype, sourcecode on GitHub (by Ben Frederickson)

d3venn: Venn Diagrams with D3.js

Authors: Helen Lu
Software: sourcecode on GitHub

Venn Diagrams with Processing.js

Authors: Ben Frederickson
Software: online JavaScript prototype

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

Authors: Nathalie Henry Riche and Tim Dwyer
Video: Demonstrating Interaction
Talk: at InfoVis 2010

Fan Diagrams

Authors: Bohyoung Kim, Bongshin Lee, and Jinwook Seo
Software: Windows Executable (see the user manual)
Talk: Poster at InfoVis 2006
Website

Overlays

Region-based

Bubble Sets

Authors: Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn, Sheelagh Carpendale
Video: demonstrating interaction
Software:
- open-source java implementation using Prefuse
- Stand-alone java imlementation (by Josua Krause)
- D3 implementation (by Johnathan Mercer)
  - Demo: http://p3.johnathanmercer.com/
- D3 implementation (by Josua Krause) - work in progress (unstable)

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

eXamine

Authors: Kasper Dinkla, Mohammed El-Kebir, Cristina-Iulia Bucur, Marco Siderius, Martine J Smit, Michel A Westenberg, Gunnar W Klau
Video: demonstrating interaction
Open access article

DiTop

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

VizSter

Authors: Jeffrey Heer, and Danah Boyd
Video: demonstation
Software: download prototype (open source)

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

Authors: Wouter Meulemans, Nathalie Henry Riche, Bettina Speckmann, Basak Alper, Tim Dwyer.
Video: demonstating interactivity with the thresholds
Talk: coming soon

Glyph-based

searchCrystal

Authors: Anselm Spoerri
Video: demonstation
Software: Adobe Flash demo

Node-Link Representations

Jigsaw

Authors: John Stasko et al.
Video: List view in Jigsaw
Software: download

PivotPaths

Authors: Marian Dörk, Nathalie Henry Riche, Gonzalo Ramos, and Susan Dumais
Video: Demonstrating Interaction
Software: interactive demo

Eyediagram

Authors: Jose Caldas, Nils Gehlenborg, Ali Faisal, Alvis Brazma, and Samuel Kaski
Video: Demonstrating Interaction
Software: interactive demo (source code).
Project homepage

Matrix Representations

AggreSet

Authors: M. Adil Yalçın , Niklas Elmqvist, and Ben Bederson
Video: overview
Software: web-based prorotype

ConSet

Authors: Bohyoung Kim, Bongshin Lee, and Jinwook Seo
Video: overview
Software: Windows Executable (see the user manual)
Poster at InfoVis 2006

OnSet (PixelLayers)

Authors: Ramik Sadana, Tim Major, John Stasko
Video: overview
Software: web-based prorotype
Project homepage
Talk at InfoVis 2014

Frequency Grids

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

KMVQL (Boolean Query Specification and Query Result Visualization)

Authors: Jiwen Huo
Poster: Vis 2003

UpSet

Authors: Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hendrik Strobelt, Romain Vuillemot, and Hanspeter Pfister
Video
Software: open-source web-based prototype
Website
Talk at InfoVis 2014

Aggregation-based Techniques

Double-Decker Plot

Authors: Heike Hofmann, A Siebes, A Wilhelm
Software:
- open-source Java implementation
- R implementation (as part of the arulesViz package, which also produces mosaic displays)

Parallel Sets

Authors: Fabian Bendix, Robert Kosara, and Helwig Hauser
Software:
- open-source Java implementation
- open source JavaScript implementation (D3)

Linear Diagrams

Authors: Peter Rodgers
Software:
- Web Demo

Radial Sets

Authors: Bilal Alsallakh, Wolfgang Aigner, Silvia Miksch, and Helwig Hauser
Video: the visual and interaction metaphors
Software: interactive demos
Slides: InfoVis 2013

UpSet

Authors: Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg, Hendrik Strobelt, Romain Vuillemot, and Hanspeter Pfister
Video
Software: open-source web-based prototype
Website

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

Download thesis

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

Luana Micallef, PhD Thesis at the University of Kent