@misc{7e2d351ff5d744168fe47dd729cd1e2d,
title = "Alternatives to Contour Visualizations for Power Systems Data",
abstract = "Electrical grids are geographical and topological structures whose voltage states are challenging to represent accurately and efficiently for visual analysis. The current common practice is to use colored contour maps, yet these can misrepresent the data. We examine the suitability of four alternative visualization methods for depicting voltage data in a geographically dense distribution system-Voronoi polygons, H3 tessellations, S2 tessellations, and a network-weighted contour map. We find that Voronoi tessellations and network-weighted contour maps more accurately represent the statistical distribution of the data than regular contour maps.",
keywords = "power systems, tessellation, visualization",
author = "Isaiah Lyons-Galante and Morteza Karimzadeh and Samantha Molnar and Graham Johnson and Kenny Gruchalla",
year = "2023",
language = "American English",
series = "Presented at 3rd Workshop on Energy Data Visualization (EnergyVis), 22 October 2023, Melbourne, Australia",
type = "Other",
}