Coordinated and Multiple Views for Visualizing Text Collections

Multiple views have been put forward as an alternative to assist exploration of evolving phenomena or associations between distinct data sets or distinct presentations of a single data set. Coordinating between views is a challenge that must be met to improve visualization support for exploratory tasks. This is particularly true for high-dimensional data, such as document collections. We introduce a coordination framework for multiple views of document collections created using projections and point placement visualizations. Coordination can occur between different views of a single data set or between views of multiple data sets. Multiple coordinations are also admitted. Three new types of coordination are presented to illustrate the framework; these have been implemented in a multipurpose multi-dimensional visualization system called PEx (Projection Explorer).