Re: Parallel coordinate plot type?

[Niklas E. <el...@cs...>]

Thanks for all of your help. I will play around with especially the 
latter example you gave in your other response to this message.

Ethan Merritt wrote:
 > On Monday 12 June 2006 02:11 am, Niklas Elmqvist wrote:
 >> I am looking to create a parallel coordinate plot for a paper I am
 >> working on.
 >
 > I was not familiar with this plot type, so I did some Googling.
 > Is this an adequate description of what you want?
 >
 >   http://www.agocg.ac.uk/reports/visual/casestud/brunsdon/parallel.htm

That's right. It's commonly used in visualization of multidimensional 
data when you run out of the normal dimensions. Some relevant papers on 
this includes much of the recent information visualization papers, as 
well as the original work by Alfred Inselberg.

[snip]

 > I am intrigued by the plot mode, and will seriously consider
 > adding it as a supported plot type. It is similar in many ways
 > to the stacked histogram plot modes, so a model already exists
 > for its implementation in gnuplot.

Sounds great. I was fearing I would have to draw the diagram manually 
using xfig. My datasets are no massive, but that would still be painful.

/Niklas

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