A study on multiple views for tree visualization

Different visual representations of a tree can provide different views of the same data, leading the viewer to obtain different information, and gain different knowledge. Any visual representation of a tree, therefore, may potentially obscure some important aspects of the data, or sometimes even mislead the user. We create Tree-Panels, a tree visualization system that provides four simultaneous visualizations of a tree. Our user study shows that different tree representations used in Tree-Panels can uncover different and complementary information about the data.

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