Using Animation to Alleviate Overdraw in Multiclass Scatterplot Matrices
summary
A browser prototype continuously redraws points in multiclass SPLOMs so overlapping locations flicker, using a flickering redraw animation loop; a controlled user study with 69 participants shows statistically significant improvement on both targeted-density and diverse-density selection tasks versus static plots, with no clear time penalty. About 30% found it distracting, and some participants perform worse with animation. The demo and code are available, but large sets (the Diamonds dataset 40k rows) loop very slowly, so sampling or parameter tuning is needed.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:13Overdraw problem
- 3:55Animation technique
- 5:19User study setup
- 8:30User study tasks
- 10:13User study results
- 12:20Future work
- 13:44Technique comparisons
- 14:46Resources and demo
- 15:26Q&A
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