Lesson 5

IS428 Visual Analytics for Business Intelligence

About

Weekly Session

Assignments

Visual Analytics Project

Course Resources

Visualising and Analysing Multivariate Data

Content

• Introduction to Multivariate Data
• Trellis
• Correlation Matrix
• Ternary Plot
• Glyphs or Star Plot
• Heatmap
• Parallel Coordinate Plot
• Treemap

Readings

Core Readings

• An Introduction to Visual Multivariate Analysis
• Corrgrams: Exploratory Displays for Correlation Matrices
• Ternary Plot
• Multivariate Data Glyphs
• Parallel Coordinates
• Wikipedia: Heatmap

Optional Readings

• The scatter-plot matrix: a great tool
• A Graphical Display of Large Correlation Matrices
• Ternary Diagram
• Reading a Ternary Diagram
• Multidimensional Detective
• Parallel Coordinates
• Multivariate Analysis Using Parallel Coordinates