ViSta: A Visual Statistics System 1
Forrest Wade Young, Carla Bann · 1995
this paper we discuss visual statistical analysis using ViSta. ViSta is designed for an audience of users having a very wide range of data analysis sophistication, ranging from novice to expert. ViSta provides seamlessly integrated data analysis environments specifically tailored to the user's level of expertise. Visual guidance is available for novices (such as students), and visual authoring tools are available for experts (such as teachers) to create guidance for these novices. A structured graphical user interface is available for competent users, and a command line interface is available for sophisticated users. The complete Lisp-Stat (Tierney, 1990) programming environment is available to researchers and graduate students who wish to extend ViSta's capabilities.