Abstract:
Ever improving computing power and technological advances are greatly
augmenting data collection and scientific observation. This has directly
contributed to increased data complexity and dimensionality, motivating
research of exploration techniques for multidimensional data. Consequently, a
recent influx of work dedicated to techniques and tools that aid in
understanding multidimensional datasets can be observed in many research
fields, including biology, engineering, physics and scientific computing.
While the effectiveness of existing techniques to analyze the structure and
relationships of multidimensional data varies greatly, few techniques provide
flexible mechanisms to simultaneously visualize and actively explore
high-dimensional spaces. In this paper, we present an inverse linear affine
multidimensional projection, coined iLAMP, that enables a novel interactive
exploration technique for multidimensional data. iLAMP operates in reverse to
traditional projection methods by mapping low-dimensional information into a
high-dimensional space. This allows users to extrapolate instances of a
multidimensional dataset while exploring a projection of the data to the
planar domain. We present experimental results that validate iLAMP, measuring
the quality and coherence of the extrapolated data; as well as demonstrate
the utility of iLAMP to hypothesize the unexplored regions of a
high-dimensional space.