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A new approah to convey the hierarchical structure of multiple time series

MultiStream: A Multiresolution Streamgraph Approach to Explore Hierarchical Time Series

A new approah to convey the hierarchical structure of multiple time series

Resume

Multiple time series are a set of multiple quantitative variables occurring at the same interval. They are present in many domains such as medicine, finance, and manufacturing for analytical purposes. In recent years, streamgraph visualization (evolved from ThemeRiver) has been widely used for representing temporal evolution patterns in multiple time series. However, streamgraph as well as ThemeRiver suffer from scalability problems when dealing with several time series. To solve this problem, multiple time series can be organized into a hierarchical structure where individual time series are grouped hierarchically according to their proximity. In this paper, we present a new streamgraph-based approach to convey the hierarchical structure of multiple time series to facilitate the exploration and comparisons of temporal evolution. Based on a focus+context technique, our method allows time series exploration at different granularities (e. g., from overview to details).

Keywords

Streamgraph, Stacked Graph, Time Series, Aggregation, Multiresolution Visualization, Overview+detail, Focus+context, Fisheye

BibTex

@article{cuenca2018multistream,
  title={MultiStream: A Multiresolution Streamgraph Approach to Explore Hierarchical Time Series},
  author={Cuenca, Erick and Sallaberry, Arnaud and Wang, Florence Y and Poncelet, Pascal},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)},
  volume={24},
  number={12},
  pages={3160--3173},
  year={2018},
  publisher={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/TVCG.2018.2796591}
}

Links

Website and datasets | PDF | Video | Slides (presented at IEEE VIS 2018)

Contact us

Available datasets

• COVID-19's evolution:
  • Confirmed cases:
    • Total confirmed cases
    • New confirmed cases
    • New confirmed cases smoothed
    • Total confirmed cases per million
    • New confirmed cases per million
    • New confirmed cases smoothed per million
  • Confirmed deaths:
    • Total deaths
    • New deaths
    • New deaths smoothed
    • Total deaths per million
    • New deaths per million
    • New deaths smoothed per million
• Sentiment analysis of political events:
  • 2016 US presidential election day
  • 2013 Australian presidential period
• Sentiment analysis of sporting events:
  • 2016 UEFA Champions league final
  • 2014 Rugby union match
• Other datasets:
  • Music genre evolution
  • AIDS user forums

Programming language

Javascript JS

Getting the source code

Requirements:

• Apache Web Server 2.4 or greater
• PHP 7.2 or greater

Deployment:

Go to the Apache Web root directory (e.g., /var/www/html/ in ubuntu):

$ cd /var/www/html/

Clone this repository:

$ sudo git clone https://github.com/erickedu85/multistream/

Restart the Apache Web Server:

$ sudo service apache2 restart

Open a browser (e.g., Google Chrome) and go to:

http://localhost/multistream/index.php

Replicate a functionality

Multistream is an interactive web application so users can perform several interactions. We cannot provide a script to replicate a specific functionality; however, we provide a step-by-step video to achieve the desired result.

• Following this video you can replicate the result of Fig 17(C) of the Multistream paper

Licence

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International