We introduce Chronoblox, a system for visualizing dynamic graphs. Chronoblox consists of a chronophotography of a sequence of graph snapshots based on a single embedding space common to all time periods. The goal of Chronoblox is to project all snapshots onto a common visualization space so as to represent both local and global dynamics at a glance. In this short paper, we review both the embedding and spatialization strategies. We then explain the way in which Chronoblox translates micro to meso structural evolution visually. We finally evaluate our approach using a synthetic network before illustrating it on a real world retweet network.
翻译:我们提出Chronoblox,一种用于可视化动态图的系统。Chronoblox基于所有时间段共享的单一嵌入空间,对一系列图快照进行时序摄影。其目标是将所有快照投影到同一可视化空间中,从而同时展现局部和全局动态。在此短文中,我们回顾了嵌入与空间化策略,阐述了Chronoblox如何以视觉方式呈现从微观到中观的结构演化。最后,我们通过合成网络评估了该方法,并在真实世界的转发网络中进行验证。