TY - GEN
T1 - Drawing Euler diagrams with circles
AU - Stapleton, Gem
AU - Zhang, Leishi
AU - Howse, John
AU - Rodgers, Peter
N1 - The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
PY - 2010/9/23
Y1 - 2010/9/23
N2 - Euler diagrams are a popular and intuitive visualization tool which are used in a wide variety of application areas, including biological and medical data analysis. As with other data visualization methods, such as graphs, bar charts, or pie charts, the automated generation of an Euler diagram from a suitable data set would be advantageous, removing the burden of manual data analysis and the subsequent task of drawing an appropriate diagram. Various methods have emerged that automatically draw Euler diagrams from abstract descriptions of them. One such method draws some, but not all, abstract descriptions using only circles. We extend that method so that more abstract descriptions can be drawn with circles, allowing sets to be represented by multiple curves. Furthermore, we show how to transform any ‘undrawable’ abstract description into a drawable one by adding in extra zones. Thus, given any abstract description, our method produces a drawing using only circles. A software implementation of the method is available for download.
AB - Euler diagrams are a popular and intuitive visualization tool which are used in a wide variety of application areas, including biological and medical data analysis. As with other data visualization methods, such as graphs, bar charts, or pie charts, the automated generation of an Euler diagram from a suitable data set would be advantageous, removing the burden of manual data analysis and the subsequent task of drawing an appropriate diagram. Various methods have emerged that automatically draw Euler diagrams from abstract descriptions of them. One such method draws some, but not all, abstract descriptions using only circles. We extend that method so that more abstract descriptions can be drawn with circles, allowing sets to be represented by multiple curves. Furthermore, we show how to transform any ‘undrawable’ abstract description into a drawable one by adding in extra zones. Thus, given any abstract description, our method produces a drawing using only circles. A software implementation of the method is available for download.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-14600-8_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-14600-8_7
M3 - Conference contribution with ISSN or ISBN
SN - 9783642145995
VL - 6170
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 23
EP - 38
BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, Diagrams 2010
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin Heidelberg
T2 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, Diagrams 2010
Y2 - 3 January 0001
ER -