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We present the hierarchical Sankey diagram that aims to augment the original Sankey diagram by enabling users to examine inflow links and levels of detail through four different variants. We provide the details of our design along with results on a student course performance dataset. Finally, the effectiveness of the four variants for the hierarchical Sankey diagram is evaluated via a user study.
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This research was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation through grants IIS-1455886, DUE-1833129, IIS-1955395, IIS-2101696, and OAC-2104158. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
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Porter, W.P., Murphy, C.P., Williams, D.R., O’Handley, B.J., Wang, C. (2021). Hierarchical Sankey Diagram: Design and Evaluation. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90436-4_31
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