Mathematical Sciences: Data Visualization using Focusing andLinking

数学科学：使用聚焦和链接进行数据可视化

• 批准号: 9114027
• 负责人: Werner Stuetzle
• 金额: $ 11.8万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-09-01 至 1996-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9114027&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mathematical; Sciences; Data; Visualization; using

To display complicated information, a common instinct is to draw a picture that is equally complicated. Yet, minimizing distraction by details is the goal. Translating natural and effective renderings of unembellished important structures to computer presentation is conceptually and practically a very difficult problem. Two basic ideas underlie the approach here: First, depicting several views and then drawing the links to identify the same object in the several views gives a sense of the position of the object vis a vis others even in many dimensions. Second, taking natural groupings of objects and examining their interrelationships allows focusing on the finer structure of the group. From these two basic principles, a conceptually coherent approach to viewing multidimensional data can be derived. Then actual methodology based on focusing and linking can be developed; user interface architectures to make efficient use of these techniques can be tried and prototypes can be implemented.

为了显示复杂的信息，一种普遍的本能是画一幅同样复杂的图。然而，减少细节的干扰是我们的目标。将未经修饰的重要结构的自然而有效的效果图转换为计算机表示在概念上和实践上都是一个非常困难的问题。这里的方法有两个基本思想：首先，描绘几个视图，然后绘制链接来识别几个视图中的同一对象，这样就可以在许多维度上了解对象相对于其他对象的位置。其次，对物体进行自然分组，并检查它们之间的相互关系，这样就可以把重点放在群体的精细结构上。从这两个基本原则出发，可以推导出一种概念上一致的查看多维数据的方法。然后才能开发出基于聚焦和链接的实际方法论；可以尝试有效利用这些技术的用户界面架构，并实现原型。