Abstract
The overview-driven visual analysis of large-scale dynamic graphs poses a major challenge. We propose Multiscale Snapshots, a visual analytics approach to analyze temporal summaries of dynamic graphs at multiple temporal scales. First, we recursively generate temporal summaries to abstract overlapping sequences of graphs into compact snapshots. Second, we apply graph embeddings to the snapshots to learn low-dimensional representations of each sequence of graphs to speed up specific analytical tasks (e.g., similarity search). Third, we visualize the evolving data from a coarse to fine-granular snapshots to semi-automatically analyze temporal states, trends, and outliers. The approach enables us to discover similar temporal summaries (e.g., reoccurring states), reduces the temporal data to speed up automatic analysis, and to explore both structural and temporal properties of a dynamic graph. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by a quantitative evaluation and the application to a real-world dataset.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 9222072 |
Pages (from-to) | 517-527 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2021 |
Event | IEEE VIS 2020 - Virtuell, United States Duration: 25 Oct 2020 → 30 Oct 2020 http://ieeevis.org/year/2020/welcome |
Keywords
- Dynamic Graph
- Dynamic Network
- Graph Embedding
- Multiscale Visualization
- Unsupervised Graph Learning
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Signal Processing
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Fields of Expertise
- Information, Communication & Computing