Degree project Visualization in Genealogical Data

Acknowledgements I want to thank and acknowledge all the people who have help me with this thesis in the different ways they could help me.  Andreas Kerren, because he accepted me to develop this project.  Ilir Jusufi, to be my guide and spend his time with me helping and guiding with this project  My family, specially my parents to support me whenever I needed and helping me from Spain and doing my life in Sweden easier.  My friend family in Sweden. They always have been so nice with me, and thanks to them for the amazing dinners and wonderful company.  My friends of Erasmus. Without them was impossible to have a wonderful year, great experience and nice university work.  My friends of Spain, because they always are next to me, in the best times and the worst times. Abstract Information visualization is becoming more and more popular due to the development of the Internet and the rapid increase of data. Since human eyes receive visual information very quick and easy, the visualization can make complex and large data more understandable. In this thesis is developed an application (ex. Facebook Application) that will allow users to build and share visualization of genealogical data. Additionally it should visualize time-dependant data, such as various events like marriage, etc. Since genealogical data are basically trees, it would be easy to adapt our application to fit the needs for other cases, such as company organizational structures charts that need to visualize different time dependant data. This report describes the requirements for the project and the resulting implementation.