Measurement of Space-filling Techniques in Simulating the Minority Game

The minority game is a simple agent-based model what can be used to simulate real financial market. The events in the model can simulate the behaviors in the market like buying or sale. Based on this, a good visual interface can help people better understand the model and for the further research work about the real market. In this paper, we introduce the ninority prototype and two space-filling visualization techniques: treemap and sunburst, what can well visualize the minority model. A focus-context techniques called fisheye-lens is also used to enhance the effect of the visualizations. At last, we give the measurements about the performance and effectiveness of these visualization techniques based on the experiment we designed.