Visualization methods for time-dependent data - an overview

Visualization has been successfully applied to analyse time-dependent data for a long time now. Lately, a number of new approaches have been introduced, promising more effective graphs especially for large datasets and multi-parameter data. In this paper, we give an overview on the visualization of time-series data and the available techniques. We provide a taxonomy and discuss general aspects of time-dependent data. After an overview on conventional techniques we discuss techniques for analysing time-dependent multivariate data sets in more detail. After this, we give an overview on dynamic presentation techniques and event-based visualization.