Title
Visual Analysis of Multi-Dimensional Categorical Data Sets.
Abstract
We present a set of interactive techniques for the visual analysis of multi-dimensional categorical data. Our approach is based on multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), which allows one to analyse relationships, patterns, trends and outliers among dependent categorical variables. We use MCA as a dimensionality reduction technique to project both observations and their attributes in the same 2D space. We use a treeview to show attributes and their domains, a histogram of their representativity in the data set and as a compact overview of attribute-related facts. A second view shows both attributes and observations. We use a Voronoi diagram whose cells can be interactively merged to discover salient attributes, cluster values and bin categories. Bar chart legends help assigning meaning to the 2D view axes and 2D point clusters. We illustrate our techniques with real-world application data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1111/cgf.12194
COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM
Keywords
Field
DocType
categorical data,multivariate data,dimensionality reduction,exploratory analysis,I,3 [Computer Graphics],Interaction techniques,I,3,8 Applications
Multiple correspondence analysis,Histogram,Computer vision,Data mining,Dimensionality reduction,Bar chart,Computer science,Categorical variable,Outlier,Artificial intelligence,Voronoi diagram,Salient
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32.0
8.0
0167-7055
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.60
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bertjan Broeksema1494.79
Alexandru Telea21520107.14
Thomas Baudel3792114.57