A Survey of Dynamic Network Visualization and Visual Analysis

Most of the various network data which come from computer, communication and social relationship application has the dynamic character. Compared with static network, dynamic network with the added time dimension lead to more challenge for data visualization and analysis. Based on the existing references, we consider dynamic graph model as dynamic network and summarize three visualization standards for it. According to different time dimension mapping method, we firstly deeply analyze and compare animation, timeline and hybrid techniques for basic dynamic network visualization. Secondly we extend to describe new multivariate scale and large dynamic network visualization. Furthermore based on combing visual analysis purpose and specific task requirement, visual analysis technique in different application is discussed. Finally we discuss the future research direction on this topic.