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Figure
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Land usage on the county level in Bavaria. Highlighted are those counties with a high
percentage of forestry
dents tendtospendlesstime reading than females, but in the class ofreading addicts
the share of males equals the share of females.
As we have seen with the previous examples, visual exploration of data requires
a flexible and adaptive frameworkof sotware ingredients to enable the user toinves-
tigate possibilities in aquick and intuitive manner. Whileflexibility isa virtue on one
hand, a stabilizing element is needed on the other hand that makes plots compara-
ble and ensures that the patterns seen in the linked displays are in fact data features
and not visual artifacts. he general paradigm of linked views to be described in the
following sections provides a systematic approach to flexible and adaptive visualiza-
tion tools while at the same time offering guidelines and principles for the infor-
mation exchange between plots and the user. In the following sections, the general
paradigm of linked views will be explained pointing to the essential characteristics
Figure
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Barchart of gender linked to barchart displaying student reading habits. As you move to
the right, the bars indicate a higher percentage of time spent by students on reading outside school.
(
= female students,
= male students)
