Multiple (Linked) Views Methods

As discussed earlier, in multiple view methods, the interaction propagates across views.

The following are some reasons to use multiple linked views:

• they let us visualize different properties of the same data simultaneously

• we can use one view to navigate, select, filter information in the other view

The views can contain different information or different representation (or combinations of these i.e. same info - same representation, same info - different representation, different info - same representation, different info - different representation).

Showing Different Information

• one view contains a subset of the items in the other

• one view contains different attributes than the other

• the granularity of the views is different

• the transformations in the views are different

Using Different Representations

Views can use different representations for the same data, for example, one view can use a graphical representation while another view can use a tabular representation.