Interactive visualization of serial periodic data
Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
ThemeRiver: Visualizing Thematic Changes in Large Document Collections
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations
VL '96 Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
Interactive Visualization of Spatiotemporal Patterns Using Spirals on a Geographical Map
VL '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
H3: laying out large directed graphs in 3D hyperbolic space
INFOVIS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '97)
INFOVIS '00 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Vizualization 2000
Visualizing Time-Series on Spirals
INFOVIS '01 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2001 (INFOVIS'01)
Connecting time-oriented data and information to a coherent interactive visualization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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PlanningLines: Novel Glyphs for Representing Temporal Uncertainties and Their Evaluation
IV '05 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Visualisation
Visualizing and discovering non-trivial patterns in large time series databases
Information Visualization
Visualization of patient data at different temporal granularities on mobile devices
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Progressive multiples for communication-minded visualization
GI '07 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007
Everyday Life Discoveries: Mining and Visualizing Activity Patterns in Social Science Diary Data
IV '07 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference Information Visualization
Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Aligning temporal data by sentinel events: discovering patterns in electronic health records
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Extreme visualization: squeezing a billion records into a million pixels
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Timeline trees: visualizing sequences of transactions in information hierarchies
AVI '08 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
ActiviTree: Interactive Visual Exploration of Sequences in Event-Based Data Using Graph Similarity
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Temporal Summaries: Supporting Temporal Categorical Searching, Aggregation and Comparison
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
CareVis: Integrated visualization of computerized protocols and temporal patient data
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Intelligent visualization and exploration of time-oriented data of multiple patients
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
LifeFlow: visualizing an overview of event sequences (video preview)
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Creating contextual help for GUIs using screenshots
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Towards event sequence representation, reasoning and visualization for EHR data
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
Combining visual block programming and graph manipulation for clinical alert rule building
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
TimeSlice: interactive faceted browsing of timeline data
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Life on the line: interacting with temporal event sequence representations
Diagrams'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Diagrammatic Representation and Inference
Data-driven exploration of care plans for patients
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using social media and learning analytics to understand how children engage in scientific inquiry
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Change-link 2.0: a digital forensic tool for visualizing changes to shadow volume data
Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security
Frequence: interactive mining and visualization of temporal frequent event sequences
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
VisRuption: intuitive and efficient visualization of temporal airline disruption data
EuroVis '13 Proceedings of the 15th Eurographics Conference on Visualization
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Event sequence analysis is an important task in many domains: medical researchers may study the patterns of transfers within the hospital for quality control; transportation experts may study accident response logs to identify best practices. In many cases they deal with thousands of records. While previous research has focused on searching and browsing, overview tasks are often overlooked. We introduce a novel interactive visual overview of event sequences called \emph{LifeFlow}. LifeFlow is scalable, can summarize all possible sequences, and represents the temporal spacing of the events within sequences. Two case studies with healthcare and transportation domain experts are presented to illustrate the usefulness of LifeFlow. A user study with ten participants confirmed that after 15 minutes of training novice users were able to rapidly answer questions about the prevalence and temporal characteristics of sequences, find anomalies, and gain significant insight from the data.