High Dimensional Data Visualization Using 3-D Icons

Overview

This paper presents a method to visualize large amount of high dimensional data. High dimensional data visualization is very important to data analysts since it gives a direct and natural view of data. In their method the author uses one icon to represent one group of dimensions. Then they choose features of the icon to display the dimensions within each group. The author has performed experiments on a real data set from oil industry, and the result is encouraging although there are still some open questions.