This is an open access book. Time is an exceptional dimension with high relevance in medicine
engineering business science biography history planning or project management.
Understanding time-oriented data via visual representations enables us to learn from the past
in order to predict plan and build the future. This second edition builds upon the great
success of the first edition. It maintains a brief introduction to visualization and a review
of historical time-oriented visual representations. At its core the book develops a systematic
view of the visualization of time-oriented data. Separate chapters discuss interaction
techniques and computational methods for supporting the visual data analysis. Many examples and
figures illustrate the introduced concepts and techniques.So what is new for the second
edition? First of all the second edition is now published as an open-access book so that
anyone interested in the visualization of time and time-oriented data can read it. Second the
entire content has been revised and expanded to represent state-of-the-art knowledge. The
chapter on interaction support now includes advanced methods for interacting with visual
representations of time-oriented data. The second edition also covers the topics of data
quality as well as segmentation and labeling. The comprehensive survey of classic and
contemporary visualization techniques now provides more than 150 self-contained descriptions
accompanied by illustrations and corresponding references. A completely new chapter describes
how the structured survey can be used for the guided selection of suitable visualization
techniques. For the second edition our TimeViz Browser the digital pendant to the survey of
visualization techniques received a major upgrade. It includes the same set of techniques as
the book but comes with additional filter and search facilities allowing scientists and
practitioners to find exactly the solutions they are interested in.
