Tailor-made Exploratory Visualization for Statistics Sweden

State of the Art: Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization

“…In fact, the user can interact with the system to change the data processing, to filter the data and select what is displayed [6], change how the information is mapped (such as by changing the colourmap), navigate the information (zoom in and out and fly round the data [47]) and change where the windows are placed on the screen (such as the dynamic splitters in the GeoWizard GUI [26]). There are two styles of interaction: indirect and direct manipulation.…”

“…Researchers have developed some useful window management strategies (such as dynamic splitters [26], ZUI's [9] and elastic windows [34]), but many of these techniques are not fully integrated with CMV systems. Furthermore it is still hard to manage the EV session: exploration control is still basic, with naïve history mechanisms, linear undo and only basic session save commands.…”

“…Systems can either leave this up to the operating system or provide specific functionality to aid the user in this task. Strategies include iconization [50], deletion of unwanted windows and constraining how the windows are placed on the screen (such as the dynamic splitters in the GeoWizard GUI [26]). Other window management strategies exist in the literature such as zoomable user interfaces (ZUI's) [9] and elastic windows [34] but these techniques have not been integrated into CMV systems.…”

“…Lately there has been interest in utilizing beans and component technologies. For instance ILOG's Jviews 1 components for Java and GeoWizard uses Microsoft's .NET technology that allows multiple environments to be "built without the need for programming" [26].…”

Multiform Views of Multiple Trees

“…It is this second approach which we describe in this paper, as we extend the idea of multiform representations for comparing trees beyond the dual tree visualization used in the Zoomology interface to several trees at once. Some of the multiform views are themselves examples of multiple views, as previously seen in [7] where a matrix of multiple scatter-plots is included as one of the view types, but here we have trees rather than table or spreadsheet data as the fundamental structures underpinning the views.…”