Coordinating computational and visual approaches for interactive feature selection and multivariate clustering

  • Authors:
  • Diansheng Guo

  • Affiliations:
  • GeoVISTA Center & Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

  • Venue:
  • Information Visualization - Special issue on coordinated and multiple views in exploratory visualization
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Unknown (and unexpected) multivariate patterns lurking in high-dimensional datasets are often very hard to find. This paper describes a human-centered exploration environment, which incorporates a coordinated suite of computational and visualization methods to explore high-dimensional data for uncovering patterns in multivariate spaces. Specifically, it includes: (1) an interactive feature selection method for identifying potentially interesting, multidimensional subspaces from a high-dimensional data space, (2) an interactive, hierarchical clustering method for searching multivariate clusters of arbitrary shape, and (3) a suite of coordinated visualization and computational components centered around the above two methods to facilitate a human-led exploration. The implemented system is used to analyze a cancer dataset and shows that it is efficient and effective for discovering unknown and unexpected multivariate patterns from high-dimensional data.