If You Can't See the Pattern, Is It There?

摘要

Analytic methods are capable of finding structure in even complex data sets and, indeed, some methods will find structure whether it is there or not. Confirming and understanding analytic results can be difficult unless some way of visualising them can be found. Both global overviews and displays of local detail are required and these have to be blended intelligently together. This paper discusses the development of coherent graphical tools for exploring and explaining large multidimensional data sets, emphasising the importance of using an interactive approach.