Information Visualization of Attributed Relational Data

Huang, M.L.

Traditional graph drawing is only concerned with viewing of abstract data and relations amount data items. It uses a graph model to present the data items and the relations and tries to geometrically convert the abstract graph into a 2D plane for visualization. There are many applications in this area, such as family trees, software design diagrams and web site-maps. The real world data that we want to visualize, however, is more complex than those that can be simply presented with traditional techniques, because it contains many domain-specific attributes. For example, in a web site-map (visualization) a simple graphical node can be used to represent a web page. However, this node is unable to represent some domain-specific attributes associated with the web page, such as the access frequency and the connectivity of the page in the web locality. This paper introduces a new model for Attributed Information Visualization that can be used to visualize the relational data with many associated attributes. We split the visualization model into two mappings between the abstract data and physical pictures, Geometric Mapping and Graphical Mapping

Cite as: Huang, M.L. (2001). Information Visualization of Attributed Relational Data. In Proc. Australian Symposium on Information Visualisation, (invis.au 2001), Sydney, Australia. CRPIT, 9. Eades, P. and Pattison, T., Eds. ACS. 143-149.

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