Meta parallel coordinates for visualizing features in large, high-dimensional, time-varying data

Aritra Dasgupta, Robert Kosara, Luke Gosink

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

9 Scopus citations

Abstract

Managing computational complexity and designing effective visual representations are two important challenges for the visualization of large, complex, high-dimensional datasets. Parallel coordinates are an effective technique for visualizing high-dimensional data, but do not scale well to very large datasets. The addition of the temporal dimension leads to more uncertainty due to clutter on screen. Consequently, this poses a significant challenge for visually finding trends and patterns that maximize insight about the underlying time-varying properties of the data. To address these problems, we present meta parallel coordinates, a parallel coordinates display that is guided by perceptually motivated visual metrics. These metrics describe the visual structures typically found in parallel coordinates and thus aid the user's analysis by providing meaningful views of the data. Since they are computed in screen space, our metrics are computationally more efficient than data-based metrics. Our choice of metrics is driven by the different analytical tasks that a user typically wants to perform with time-varying multivariate data. In particular, we have worked with domain scientists who performed simulations of bioremediation experiments, and use their data and results to demonstrate the usefulness of our approach.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization 2012, LDAV 2012 - Proceedings
Pages85-89
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization, LDAV 2012 - Seattle, WA, United States
Duration: Oct 14 2012Oct 19 2012

Publication series

NameIEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization 2012, LDAV 2012 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2nd Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization, LDAV 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySeattle, WA
Period10/14/1210/19/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Information Systems

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