GeoAnalytics visual inquiry and filtering tools in parallel coordinates plots

The complex nature of social and scientific spatial-temporal multivariate data calls for highly interactive integrated infor-mation visualization (InfoVis) and geo-visualization (Geo-Vis) tools and applications. Our research concentrates on improving visual user interface (VUI) methods and extend-ing existing visual representation techniques. In this paper, we introduce an enhanced parallel coordi-nates (PC) component, integrating statistical methods for visual inquiries and filtering of spatial and multivariate data, a component that provides a fast and intuitive understand-ing of the distribution of data and of the relationships be-tween data attributes. This enhanced PC component can also serve as a visual control panel for dynamically steering applications with multiple-linked and coordinated InfoVis and GeoVis views. The effectiveness of our proposed extended PC component is demonstrated in a tailor-made application called GeoWiz-ard Lite which is based on our ’GeoAnalytics ’ visualization (GAV) framework. The GAV framework is based on the principles behind Visual Analytics (VA) and the develope-ment is aiming to facilitate the extraction of complex pat-terns in large data sets via visual interaction. In this paper we also demonstrate the synergy between InfoVis and Geo-Vis methods through this case study exploring social science data from the Statistics Sweden data bases