Parallel sets: Interactive exploration and visual analysis of categorical data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 558-568

  Kosara, Robert ^a,b,d   Bendix, Fabian ^c   Hauser, Helwig ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^c VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical data; Information visualization; Interaction; Multivariate data; Nominal data

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL DATA; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION; PARALLEL SETS; PARALLELOGRAMS;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

DATA REDUCTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33744769723     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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