Preparation for Camera-Ready Version

Summary of Comments and Todos

The italics are my thoughts.

Writing

• Overview of the Interface

  • a higher-level guideline of interactions is absent

    • make a roadmap of actions combining tasks

• Related Work

  • "no clear novelty factor present"

    • survey the real need of users for network analysis

    • one-sentence claim that the stacking view does not appear in the literature

  • Bring up the multi-resolution visualization techniques for time series

    • https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2384179.2384183

• Validation

  • Case Study: "brief"

    • explain more on the case dataset

  • User Test: missing

    • user study?

• Discussion, Future Work

  • Discussion section is lacking

    • what more is expected from the analysts? i.e. what need is not addressed? why is it difficult to meet?

    • which part of the visual interpretation/interaction is hard for them?

    • maybe include the discussion of the extension to other interval-based systems as mentioned by reviewer 4 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132847.3133164

  • Future work is "short and superficial"

User Study

• Run a quantitative & qualitative study by asking volunteers to conduct basic operations with a timer & rate the helpfulness of the system?

  • baseline: small multiples and animated node-link diagrams only for different granularities - find the outlier period as soon as possible.

    • components, density, ...

• Compare findings in the highschool dataset with other works, give detailed comments of the analysts

• How did the experts or analysts say about the usability and effectiveness.

Figure

• enlarge Fig. 4, 5, 6 and improve the resolution

• increase the font size in Fig 2

• try to make the figures less sketchy with a uniform style

Online Version

• modularize the source code and make a site for the project, including introduction