Crafting Visualizations of Time-Oriented Data

Many different types of data are related to time. Meteorological data, financial data, census data, medical data, simulation data, news articles, photo collections, or project plans, to name only a few examples, all contain temporal information. In theory, because all these data are time-oriented, they should be representable with one and the same visualization approach. In practice, however, the data exhibit specific characteristics and hence each of the above examples requires a dedicated visualization.