Star Coordinates: A Multi-dimensional Visualization Technique with Uniform Treatment of Dimensions
Eser Kandogan · 2000
Visualizing multi-dimensional data has tremendous effects on science, engineering, and business decisionmaking. A new visualization technique called Star Coordinates is presented to support users in early stages of their visual thinking activities. Star Coordinates arranges coordinates on a circle sharing the same origin at the center. It uses simply points to represent data, treating each dimension uniformly at the cost of coarse representation. Current implementation of Star Coordinates provided valuable insight on several real data sets for cluster discovery and multifactor analysis tasks. The work on Star Coordinates will continue on developing advanced transformations that will improve data understanding in multi-dimensions.