Increasing the perceptual salience of relationships in parallel coordinate plots.
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Journal Article
We present three extensions to parallel coordinates that increase the perceptual salience of relationships between axes in multivariate data sets: (1) luminance modulation maintains the ability to preattentively detect patterns in the presence of overplotting, (2) adding a one-vs.-all variable display highlights relationships between one variable and all others, and (3) adding a scatter plot within the parallel-coordinates display preattentively highlights clusters and spatial layouts without strongly interfering with the parallel-coordinates display. These techniques can be combined with one another and with existing extensions to parallel coordinates, and two of them generalize beyond cases with known-important axes. We applied these techniques to two real-world data sets (relativistic heavy-ion collision hydrodynamics and weather observations with statistical principal component analysis) as well as the popular car data set. We present relationships discovered in the data sets using these methods.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Harter, JM; Wu, X; Alabi, OS; Phadke, M; Pinto, L; Dougherty, D; Petersen, H; Bass, S; Taylor, RM
Published Date
- January 24, 2012
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 8294 /
Start / End Page
- 82940T -
PubMed ID
- 23145217
Pubmed Central ID
- 23145217
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1996-756X
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0277-786X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1117/12.907486
Language
- eng