Muzlink: Three Level Connected Timelines for Artist-Centered Musical Adaptations Exploration

This design study tackles the visualization of a multivariate bipartite graph of artists (songwriters, composer, singer) and songs. Furthermore, this dataset has an additional tree structure for the song nodes, inherited from the musical adaptation relations. In tight collaboration with a national library and archives agency, we propose an artist-centered interactive representation, focusing on several identified user tasks. Data and task abstraction, design considerations, and a preliminary insight-based case study are presented.