Exploratory spatio-temporal visualization: an analytical review
Journal of Visual Languages & ComputingPublished 17 September 2003
Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko, Peter Gatalsky
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A structured inventory of existing exploratory techniques related to the types of data and tasks they are appropriate for is considered, which is potentially helpful for data analysts—users of geovisualization tools.
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