Survey on Visual Analysis of Event Sequence Data

Lastest Update: 29th April 2024

Introduction

The aim of this survey is to provide a comprehensive review and characterization of the state-of-the-art in visual analytics research for event sequence data.

Taxonomy

Design Space

• Data Scales
  • Event
  • Subsequence
  • Sequence
  • Sequence Collection
• Analysis Techniques
  • Pattern discovery
    • frequent pattern mining
    • similarity analysis
  • Sequence inference
  • Sequence modeling
• Visual Representations
  • Chart-based visualizations
  • Timeline-based visualizations
  • Hierarchy-based visualizations
  • Sankey-based visualizations
    • directed node-link graph
    • traditional Sankey diagram
  • Matrix-based visualizations
• Interactions
  • Filter/query
  • Editing
  • Segmentation
  • Alignment
  • Scaling
  • Emphasis
• Visual Analysis Tasks
  • Summarization
  • Prediction & recommendation
  • Anomaly detection
  • Comparison
  • Causality analysis