Eurographics/ IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization
2007
pp. 163-170

See What You Know: Analyzing Data Distribution to Improve Density Map Visualization

Enrico Bertini, Alessio Di Girolamo, and Giuseppe Santucci

DOI: 10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis07/163-170

Density maps allow for visually rendering density differences, usually mapping density values to a grey or color scale. The paper analyzes the drawbacks arising from the commonly used strategies and introduces a novel technique able to improve the overall mapping process. The technique is driven by statistical knowledge about the density distribution and a set of quality metrics allows for validating, in an objective way, its effectiveness.

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