TY - GEN
T1 - FamSearch: Visual Analysis of Genealogical Data
AU - Burch, Michael
AU - Wallner, Günter
AU - van de Wetering, Huub
AU - Tufail, Shahrukh
AU - Zandt-Sloot, Linda
AU - Gladkis, Stasius
AU - Hong, Minji
AU - Lepelaars, Carlo
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper describes an interactive visualization tool consisting of several views offering different perspectives on genealogical data that is stored and maintained by the Brabants Historical Information Center (BHIC). The dataset consists of several attributes, static as well as dynamic ones, containing information about several million people having lived in the Netherlands. With the tool, we can gain insights in family histories and build, confirm, and reject hypotheses, or search for one’s own relatives having lived in that region. Genealogical, temporal, and geographical relations can be investigated and linked to each other to identify correlations. Moreover, family events such as marriages, divorces, births, deaths, and similar can be explored. To support these tasks the tool provides several algorithms and interactive visualizations that enable data exploration. Visualizations include, amongst others, timeline diagrams, pedigree trees, population pyramids, sunbursts, and word clouds. We illustrate the usefulness of the tool by showcasing which and how patterns and anomalies can be found.
AB - This paper describes an interactive visualization tool consisting of several views offering different perspectives on genealogical data that is stored and maintained by the Brabants Historical Information Center (BHIC). The dataset consists of several attributes, static as well as dynamic ones, containing information about several million people having lived in the Netherlands. With the tool, we can gain insights in family histories and build, confirm, and reject hypotheses, or search for one’s own relatives having lived in that region. Genealogical, temporal, and geographical relations can be investigated and linked to each other to identify correlations. Moreover, family events such as marriages, divorces, births, deaths, and similar can be explored. To support these tasks the tool provides several algorithms and interactive visualizations that enable data exploration. Visualizations include, amongst others, timeline diagrams, pedigree trees, population pyramids, sunbursts, and word clouds. We illustrate the usefulness of the tool by showcasing which and how patterns and anomalies can be found.
KW - Diagrammatic representations
KW - Genealogical data
KW - Information visualization
KW - Interactions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121929299&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-90436-4_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-90436-4_30
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783030904357
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 374
EP - 385
BT - Advances in Visual Computing - 16th International Symposium, ISVC 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Bebis, George
A2 - Athitsos, Vassilis
A2 - Yan, Tong
A2 - Lau, Manfred
A2 - Li, Frederick
A2 - Shi, Conglei
A2 - Yuan, Xiaoru
A2 - Mousas, Christos
A2 - Bruder, Gerd
PB - Springer
ER -