Visualizing Weighted Edges in Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Peter Rodgers;Paul Mutton

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IV '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new edge length heuristicthat finds a graph layout where the edge lengths areproportional to the weights on the graph edges. Theheuristic can be used in combination with the springembedder to produce a compromise between a drawingwith an accurate presentation of edge length and adrawing with good general comprehensibility. Wedescribe our preliminary investigations in combining thetwo methods so that a user can tune their preference anddemonstrate the effectiveness of the system on bothrandomly generated graphs and graphs representing webpage similarity data.