Abstract:
Finding patterns and trends in spatial and temporal datasets has been a long
studied problem in statistics and different domains of science. This paper
presents a visual analytics approach for the interactive exploration and
analysis of spatiotemporal correlations among multivariate datasets. Our
approach enables users to discover correlations and explore potentially
causal or predictive links at different spatiotemporal aggregation levels
among the datasets, and allows them to understand the underlying statistical
foundations that precede the analysis. Our technique utilizes the Pearson's
product-moment correlation coefficient and factors in the lead or lag between
different datasets to detect trends and periodic patterns amongst them.