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Activity Number:
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553
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 6, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Computing
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| Abstract - #305667 |
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Title:
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A Swift Swiftian Look at Massive Data Sets
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Author(s):
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Antony Unwin*+
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Companies:
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Uni Augsburg
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Address:
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Inst Math, Augsburg, International, , Germany
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Keywords:
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Data visualization ; Massive datasets
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Abstract:
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Visualizing large data sets is difficult enough, visualizing massive data sets is well-nigh impossible. This paper discusses two strategies, using overviews and selective drill-down on the one hand and using summarizing displays on the other. These approaches are not new and have been applied to even very small data sets in the past. What is new is the scale of data sets that we want to visualize and the resulting challenges that we now have to face. Jonathan Swift described Lemuel Gulliver's approaches to dealing with small and large in "Gulliver's Travels." Perhaps we can learn something from that book. His travels to Lilliput are well-known, while his visit to Brobdingnag gets less attention, just as Lilliputian data sets get lots of attention while Brobdingnagian ones don't. We try to redress the balance.
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