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Tennis Plots: Game, Set, and Match

2014; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-662-44043-8_5

1611-3349

Michael Burch, Daniel Weiskopf,

Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

In this paper we introduce Tennis Plots as a novel diagram type to better understand the differently long time periods in tennis matches on different match structure granularities. We visually encode the dynamic tennis match by using a hierarchical concept similar to layered icicle representations used for visualizing information hierarchies. The time axis is represented vertically as multiple aligned scales to indicate the durations of games and points and to support comparison tasks. Color coding is used to indicate additional attributes attached to the data. The usefulness of Tennis Plots is illustrated in a case study investigating the tennis match of the women's Wimbledon final 1988 between Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova lasting 1 hour, 19 minutes, and 31 seconds and being played over three sets (5:7, 6:2, 6:1). Interaction techniques are described in the case study in order to explore the data for insights.