N-polar Visualization (PacificVis 2015)

In this paper, we propose N-polar Visualization, an interactive visualization technique to graphically represent how the data objects are related against multiple anchors. This technique allows the user to assign a particular set of data objects as anchors and radially move them around of a circle. This enables the user to control the arrangement of the anchors and interactively perform multiple comparisons of the data set. To test the utility of this technique, a case study was performed using N-polar Visualization of UN General Assembly voting data, and the underlying insights were compared with the actual historical events.