1. Visualizing Structures in Strings
Arc Diagrams:
Visualizing Structures in Strings
Martin Wattenberg
IBM Research
One Rogers Street
Cambridge MA 02142

2. Dot Plot

3. Dot Plot Patterns

4. Basic Definition
1. Identical
2. Non-overlapping
3. Consecutive
4. Maximal

5. Mary Had a Little Lamb

6. Mary Had a Little Lamb

7. Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi

8. Vivaldi - Autumn

9. Cluster and Calendar based Visualization of Time Series Data
Jarke J. van Wijk
Eindhoven University of Technology
Dept. of Mathematics and Computing Science
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Edward R. van Selow
Neth. Energy Research Foundation ECN
P.O. Box 1, 1755 ZG Petten
The Netherlands

10. Power Demand by Hour and Day

11. Number of Employees in the Office over Time

12. Power Demand over Time

13. References 1. Wattenberg, M. “Arc Diagrams: Visualizing Structure in
Strings”, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information
Visualization, Boston, MA, pp , 2002.
2. Church, K.W., and Helfman, J.I. "Dotplot: A Program for Exploring
Self-Similarity in Millions of Lines of Text and Code", Proceedings of
the 24th Symposium on the Interface, Computing Science and
Statistics V24, pp , March, 1992.
3. M. Wattenberg, "The Shape of Song."
4. Jarke J. Van Wijk , Edward R. Van Selow, “Cluster and Calendar
Based Visualization of Time Series Data”, Proceedings of the 1999
IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, p.4, October 24-29,
1999.