An Interactive 3D Integration of Parallel Coordinates and Star Glyphs

Description:

Parallel Coordinates are a powerful method for visualizing multidimensional data but, when applied to large data sets, they become cluttered and difficult to read. Star Glyphs, on the other hand, can be used to display either the attributes of a data item or the values across all items for a single attribute. Star Glyphs may readily provide a quick impression; however, since the full data set will require multiple glyphs, overall readings are more difficult. We present Parallel Glyphs, an interactive integration of the visual representations of Parallel Coordinates and Star Glyphs that utilizes the advantages of both representations to offset the disadvantages they have separately. We discuss the role of uniform and stepped color scales in the visual comparison of non-adjacent items and Star Glyphs. Parallel Glyphs provide capabilities for focus-in-context exploration using two types of lenses and interactions specific to the 3D space.

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Main Reference:

Elena Fanea, Sheelagh Carpendale, and Tobias Isenberg (2005) An Interactive 3D Integration of Parallel Coordinates and Star Glyphs. In John Stasko and Matt Ward, eds., Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis, October 23–25, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA). IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, pages 149–156, 2005.
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BibTeX entry:



@INPROCEEDINGS{Fanea:2005:I3I,
  author      = {Elena Fanea and Sheelagh Carpendale and Tobias Isenberg},
  title       = {An Interactive {3D} Integration of Parallel Coordinates and Star Glyphs},
  booktitle   = {Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis, October 23--25, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)},
  OPTeditor   = {John Stasko and Matt Ward},
  year        = {2005},
  pages       = {149--156},
  publisher   = {IEEE Computer Society},
  address     = {Los Alamitos, CA},
  doi         = {10.1109/INFVIS.2005.1532141},
  doi_url     = {https://doi.org/10.1109/INFVIS.2005.1532141},
  url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Fanea2005I3I},
  url2        = {http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Research/3DParallelCoordinates},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Fanea_2005_I3I.pdf},
}

Other Reference:

Elena Fanea (2006) Establishing Graphical and Formal Relationships between Visualizations of Multi-Dimensional Data. Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Canada, 2006.
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BibTeX entry:



@MASTERSTHESIS{Fanea:2006:EGF,
  author      = {Elena Fanea},
  title       = {Establishing Graphical and Formal Relationships between Visualizations of Multi-Dimensional Data},
  year        = {2006},
  school      = {University of Calgary},
  address     = {Canada},
  url         = {http://innovis.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Publications/Publications?action=bibentry&bibfile=BibTex.BibTex&bibref=Fanea:2006:EGF},
  url2        = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/VideosAndDemos/Fanea2005I3I},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers_students/Fanea_2006_EGF.pdf},
}

This work was done at the Innovis group at the Interactions Lab of the University of Calgary, Canada.