The applications of the work will extend to almost all areas of science. In particular we will examine spatially dependent data, for example, data collected over geographical domains for environmental assessment, and agricultural applications. There are 329 cities around the United States that have 9 livability measures associated with them. In the last column of plots, San Francisco is identified as having a high value on education, also. At this stage we focused on the user interface design.
Several tools allow a user to interact with the environment.
The features include a toolbox to select color, glyph type and size. Creating a custom brush is supported by the design box which enables a user to create a paintbrush for marking different data points. The rotation interface allows the user to examine the entire data set from different angles. All interaction employs audiofeedback in addition to visual response. This picture shows views of the mid-Atlantic streams water chemistry data.