Issue No. 02 - March/April (2006 vol. 8)
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2006.21
Ben Shneiderman , University of Maryland
Muscular dystrophy is a degenerative disease that destroys muscles and ultimately kills its victims. Researchers worldwide are racing to find a cure by trying to uncover the genetic processes that cause muscular dystrophy. Given that a key process is muscle development, researchers at a consortium of ten institutions are studying 1,000 men and women, ages 18 to 40 years, to see how their muscles enlarge with exercise. The 150 variables collected for each participant make this data analysis task challenging for users of traditional statistical software tools. However, a new approach to visual data analysis is helping these researchers speed up their work.
visual data, data mining, software
Ben Shneiderman, "A Telescope for High-Dimensional Data", Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 8, no. , pp. 48-53, March/April 2006, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2006.21