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- Harness perceptual capabilities of human visual system to extract
information from data sets
- Look for structure, features, patterns, trends, anomalies, relationships
- Provide a qualitative overview of large, complex data sets
- Assist in identifying region(s) of interest and appropriate
parameters for more focussed quantitative analysis
As Ben Shneiderman has stated, the Visual Information Seeking Mantra is:
- Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand
- Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand
- Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand
- Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand