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Title
Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis
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# Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis

**Source**: https://idl.uw.edu/papers/interactive-dynamics
**Parent**: https://idl.uw.edu/papers

[Jeffrey Heer](http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/), [Ben Shneiderman](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/).
Communications of the ACM, 2012

[Jeffrey Heer](http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jheer/), [Ben Shneiderman](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/)

Communications of the ACM, 2012

 

Interactive map from CrimeSpotting.org, with filtering controls for category, day and time.

Materials

[PDF](https://idl.cs.washington.edu/files/2012-InteractiveDynamics-CACM.pdf)

Abstract

A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations.

BibTeX

```
@article{2012-interactive-dynamics,
  title = {Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis},
  author = {Heer, Jeffrey AND Shneiderman, Ben},
  journal = {Communications of the ACM},
  year = {2012},
  volume = {55},
  number = {4},
  pages = {45--54},
  publisher = {ACM},
  url = {https://idl.uw.edu/papers/interactive-dynamics},
  doi = {10.1145/2133416.2146416}
}
```

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