Guided analysis of hurricane trends using statistical processes integrated with interactive parallel coordinates

VAST 09 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 19-26

  Steed, Chad A ^a   Swan II, J Edward ^b   Jankun Kelly, T J ^b   Fitzpatrick, Patrick J ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate study; Correlation; Interaction; Multivariate data; Regression; Statistical analysis; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE STUDIES; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; HURRICANE ACTIVITY; HURRICANE PREDICTION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INTERACTIVE VISUAL ANALYSIS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA; MULTIVARIATE DATA; PARALLEL COORDINATES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL INDICATORS; STATISTICAL PROCESS; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS; WEATHER DATA;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HURRICANES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VISUALIZATION;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 72849116335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2009.5332586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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