Data visualization sliders

  • Authors:
  • Stephen G. Eick

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Bell Laboratories - Room IHC 1G-351, 1000 E. Warrenville Road, Naperville, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • UIST '94 Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Computer sliders are a generic user input mechanism for specifying a numeric value from a range. For data visualization, the effectiveness of sliders may be increased by using the space inside the slider as• an interactive color scale,• a barplot for discrete data, and• a density plot for continuous data.The idea is to show the selected values in relation to the data and its distribution. Furthermore, the selection mechanism may be generalized using a painting metaphor to specify arbitrary, disconnected intervals while maintaining an intuitive user-interface.