The Data Context Map: Fusing Data and Attributes into a Unified Display

Numerous methods have been described that allow the visualization of the data matrix. But all suffer from a common problem - observing the data points in the context of the attributes is either impossible or inaccurate. We describe a method that allows these types of comprehensive layouts. We achiev...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 2016-01, Vol.22 (1), p.121-130
Main Authors: Shenghui Cheng, Mueller, Klaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coding
Context
Correlation
Data points
Data visualization
Decision Make
High Dimensional Data
Layout
Layouts
Low-Dimensional Embedding
Measurement
Object oriented programming
Optimization
Similarity
Symmetric matrices
Tradeoffs
Visual Analytics
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Summary:Numerous methods have been described that allow the visualization of the data matrix. But all suffer from a common problem - observing the data points in the context of the attributes is either impossible or inaccurate. We describe a method that allows these types of comprehensive layouts. We achieve it by combining two similarity matrices typically used in isolation - the matrix encoding the similarity of the attributes and the matrix encoding the similarity of the data points. This combined matrix yields two of the four submatrices needed for a full multi-dimensional scaling type layout. The remaining two submatrices are obtained by creating a fused similarity matrix - one that measures the similarity of the data points with respect to the attributes, and vice versa. The resulting layout places the data objects in direct context of the attributes and hence we call it the data context map. It allows users to simultaneously appreciate (1) the similarity of data objects, (2) the similarity of attributes in the specific scope of the collection of data objects, and (3) the relationships of data objects with attributes and vice versa. The contextual layout also allows data regions to be segmented and labeled based on the locations of the attributes. This enables, for example, the map's application in selection tasks where users seek to identify one or more data objects that best fit a certain configuration of factors, using the map to visually balance the tradeoffs.
ISSN:1077-2626
1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467552