[COMM]gregater: A toolset for temporal communication patterns and dynamic network structure

Hui Tang, Chao Pan, Bing Yu, Weidan Du, Shuang Wei, Mingran Li, Chen Guo, Longjie Cheng, Kai Hu, Rongrong Zhang, Xinzhe Li, Yingjie Victor Chen, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Yu Michael Zhu

Abstract: COMM]gregater is a visual analytic toolset to analyze and identify the temporal communication patterns and dynamic network structure of a social network in the DinoFun Theme Park of the IEEE VAST 2015 Mini Challenge 2. It synergizes the effectiveness of both graphical and statistical analytics to reveal important communication patterns. This paper introduces an effective way to visualize temporal data and draw basic hypothesis pertaining to the challenge questions.