Google+ ripples: A native visualization of information flow

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A nested circles style to present the temporal pattern of re-sharing. The sharing action is structure as tree-map. The nested circle helps to highlight the cluster in each branch. This paper discusses the design factors included: social media sharing pattern, rendering, interaction and animation. I think it would be a useful way to tell the story about the temporal, social network trends. The display is bright for the user to understand the whole picture of the certain topic or post to spread.

An extend reading of the nested circle of [2]. The paper models the exploratory search tasks as a radar plot. The user can drag the interested item into the plot to filter the result. In [1], the figure helps to show the social media sharing pattern as circles, however, in [2], from a different perspective, to help the user to filter the result. The two scenario may mutually relevant.

Reference

1. Viégas, Fernanda, et al. "Google+ ripples: A native visualization of information flow." Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web. ACM, 2013.
2. Kangasrääsiö, Antti, et al. "Interactive Modeling of Concept Drift and Errors in Relevance Feedback." arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02609 (2016).