Deokgun Park|Steven M. Drucker|Roland Fernandez|Niklas Elmqvist
&lt;sc&gt;Atom&lt;/sc&gt;: A Grammar for Unit Visualizations
University of Maryland, College Park|Microsoft (United States)|University of Maryland, College Park|Microsoft (United States)
unit visualizations family visualizations every data item represented unique visual marka visual unitduring visual encoding certain datasets tasks unit visualizations provide information better match users mental model enable novel interactions compared traditional aggregated visualizations current visualization grammars cannot fully describe unit visualization family paper characterize design space unit visualizations derive grammar express resulting grammar called atom based passing data series layout operations divide output previous operations recursively size position every data point determined evaluate expressive power grammar using describe existing unit visualizations well suggest new unit visualizations