Interactive Data Exploration with Customized Glyphs

We present a visualization system allowing non-programmers to visualize, explore, and analyze unknown multivariate data by designing an appropriate glyph representation with minimal user interaction. Nonetheless, our system is powerful enough to allow the user to generate a great variety of glyphs. Our tool is implemented as a set of modules with graphical user interfaces for the IRIS Explorer using standard data types. Therefore, it is one of the few visualization systems enabeling non-programmers to define almost arbitrarily complex glyphs, to generate many views of the same data set with minimal effort, and to integrate these views into existing applications based on the IRIS Explorer. Our experiences with an application of this tool in the automotive industry are briefly reported.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: WSCG
• Authors: Martin Kraus, Thomas Ertl
• Keywords: IRIS Explorer, Minimal User Interaction, Unknown Multivariate Data, WSCG 2001