TY - CONF T1 - Data exploration with paired hierarchical visualizations: initial designs of PairTrees T2 - Proceedings of the 2003 annual national conference on Digital government research Y1 - 2003 A1 - Kules,Bill A1 - Shneiderman, Ben A1 - Plaisant, Catherine AB - Paired hierarchical visualizations (PairTrees) integrate treemaps, node-link diagrams, choropleth maps and other information visualization techniques to support exploration of hierarchical data sets at multiple levels of abstraction. This paper describes several novel applications of PairTrees in the econometric and health statistics domains, as well as some challenges and trade-offs inherent in the technique. JA - Proceedings of the 2003 annual national conference on Digital government research T3 - dg.o '03 PB - Digital Government Society of North America UR - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1123196.1123233 ER -