The document summarizes research on visualizing temporal categorical data from electronic health records. It describes tools like LifeLines for visualizing a single patient record, LifeLines2 for searching and comparing multiple records, and Similan for similarity-based search. A new tool called LifeFlow is introduced for aggregating and visualizing patterns across large numbers of records. The research was conducted over 10+ years at the University of Maryland by researchers including Krist Wongsuphasawat, Taowei David Wang, Catherine Plaisant, and Ben Shneiderman.
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