Multiple and Coordinated Views in Information Visualization

Multiple views are not merely isolated separate views on data but mighty tools which often share a relationship. This relationship is brought to attention and utilized by coordination. Hence, in this paper I present an outline of the field of multiple coordinated views, its reasons, anticipations, jargon and examples. Because of its general nature, a large portion of this text deals with abstract formalizations, models and architecture descriptions. The latter is mainly revolving around user-generated coordination. Here, the works of North and Schneiderman (Snap-Together Visualization), Boukhelifa (A Coordination Model for Exploratory Multiview Visualization) and Weaver (Improvise) get major focus as they address coordination itself in different views and show development in their field. To conclude this paper, a small collections of interesting uses of multiple and coordinated views is presented as well as a brief discussion on recent issues.

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