Polychromatic plots: graphical display of multidimensional data.

ABSTRACT: Limitations of graphical displays as well as human perception make the presentation and analysis of multidimensional data challenging. Graphical display of information on paper or by current projectors is perforce limited to two dimensions; the encoding of information from other dimensions must be overloaded into the two physical dimensions. A number of alternative means of encoding this information have been implemented, such as offsetting data points at an angle (e.g., three-dimensional projections onto a two-dimensional surface) or generating derived parameters that are combinations of other variables (e.g., principal components). Here, we explore the use of color to encode additional dimensions of data. PolyChromatic Plots are standard dot plots, where the color of each event is define

SUBMITTER: Roederer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2583940 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature