Multiform Views of Multiple Trees

We describe a case study of TaxVis, a multiple view system for examining relationships between sets of multiple classification trees. The system displays multiform views of the dataset, which in turn can either be a singular view of the larger forest object formed from the set of trees, or multiple views in themselves, using linking to show relationships between the separate trees. We describe the circumstances that led to the development of the multiple view aspects of the application and how it emerged that different views were indeed suited to different tasks.