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Towards a Survey of Visualization Methods for Power Grids
While many visualization techniques have been developed in recent years, few
have been applied to power grid visualization. With the ongoing emergence of
smart and distributed grids, it becomes increasingly important to improve and
modernize legacy infrastructure. Visualization and simulation of power grids
under real-life scenarios can help with and sometimes even discover new
approaches and techniques that significantly improve and simplify network
analysis, maintenance, and planning. This enables operators to spot key issues
which are hard to detect otherwise. Creating visualizations for these problems
is challenging as no obvious or trivial solutions exist, and many of them are
associated with multi-dimensional data. This paper aims to provide a
comprehensive overview of the methods developed for the visualization of power
grids while evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of the single
approaches. An outlook discusses open research questions and possible further
improvements to the field.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, 201