Data visualization metrics between theoretic view and real implementations: A review

Abstract

Metrics are standards or ways to measure or evaluate something. Metrics are used in a variety of fields, for instance, they are used in the field of graph drawing to help position aesthetically pleasing graphs. There is much potential for using metrics in data visualization. This potential not only can help to layout and position the visual depictions better but also assets visualizations creation which is quicker to understand or calculate values that determine the similarity and differences of two visualizations. However, little research has been performed to investigate and clarify where and how metrics can be used in visualization. In this work, the usages of metrics visualization were investigated through a series of casestudies.

Keywords

• visualization techniques
• quality metrics
• clusters
• graphical data
• multivariate data