Visualizing time-dependent key performance indicator in a graph-based analysis

The usage of visual analytics during the analysis of business warehouse calculated key performance indicators is one emerging challenge in modern business applications. On the one hand, a complex network of key performance indicators has to be supervised. On the other hand, within this network only few key performance indicators change obviously within a short period of time. The sole mapping of the complexity of a network of key performance indicators to a graph-based visualization only covers static information and neglects temporal dependencies. We present a new visualization approach for the enrichment of graph-based visualizations of key performance indicator networks by introducing a multi-encoded visualization of additional functional, contextual and temporal information. The should help the user to understand relationships between KPIs and alert him if something is going wrong.

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