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The Table Lens: Merging Graphical and Symbolic Representations in an Interactive Focus + Context Visualization for Tabular Information. R. Rao and S. K. Card Present by Tao Zhan. Focus + Context (Fisheye). Motivation
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The Table Lens: Merging Graphical and Symbolic Representations in an Interactive Focus + Context Visualization for Tabular Information R. Rao and S. K. Card Present by Tao Zhan
Focus + Context (Fisheye) • Motivation • a view of the whole data available, while pursuing detail analysis of a part of it • Problems in overview + detail: visual search and working memory consequences degrade performance • user’s interest in detail fall away from the object of attention in a systematic way
Focus + Context (Continue) • Basic Idea • detail information and relevant context overview are combined within a single (dynamic) display • DOI: a metric that is the sum of a priori measure of importance and distance from the point of interest • method of reduction of information for the peripheral, contextual area
Focus + Context (Continue) • Key factors • zoom factor • focus/context space ratio • whether the zoom factor is a step function or continuous function • whether the fisheye effect is obtained by geometrical distortion, elision, or semantic scaling
Table Lens • Motivated by the particular nature of tables • Distort table without bending any rows or columns • Distortion in each of the two dimensions is independent from the other G H 4 5 6
Distortion Function Framework • Each dimension has a block pulse DOI • Mapping from uniformly distributed cell to physical location • Multiple focal areas and Multiple focal levels are possible
Interactive Manipulation of Focus • Zoom • Adjust • Slide • Combined
Graphical Mapping Scheme • Value • Value Type • Region Type • Cell Size • User Choice • Spotlighting
Examples & Conclusion • Examples • Strength and Advantage • supports effective interaction with much larger tables than conventional one (68,400 V.S. 660) • graphical representations make it easy to view patterns for cell value • Suitable for large dimensional data and reveal correlation and patterns between them
Critique • Zoom Factor may be too big • Nominal variables with large domain are hard to present graphically • Search is not trivial in Table Lens
Favorite Sentence • Always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.