# Storyline Visualizations with Ubiquitous Actors

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04125 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.04125/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 10 Aug 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Story Ribbons: Reimagining Storyline Visualizations with Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.06772/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Storyline visualizations depict the temporal dynamics of social interactions, as they describe how groups of actors (individuals or organizations) change over time. A common constraint in storyline visualizations is that an actor cannot belong to two different groups at the same time instant. However, this constraint may be too severe in some application scenarios, thus we generalize the model by allowing an actor to simultaneously belong to distinct groups at any point in time. We call this model Storyline with Ubiquitous Actors (SUA). Essential to our model is that an actor is represented as a tree rather than a single line. We describe an algorithmic pipeline to compute storyline visualizations in the SUA model and discuss case studies on publication data.