A TableLens Featuring Two-Tone Pseudo Coloring, Hybrid Clustering, and much more

Mathias John, Christian Tominski, and Heidrun Schumann
University of Rostock, 2006
(see poster and paper)

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Controls:
Left mouse button: expand/collapse a row, hold and drag to affect multiple rows
Mouse wheel: scroll
[SHIFT] + mouse wheel: zoom in/out
Toolbar buttons are self-explanatory:
Open, save, cursor, zoom in, zoom out, color map, color segments, clustering (may take a while)
Click column header to sort via column
Drag column to reorder columns
Click Icicle Plot (appears after clustering) to expand/collapes clusters
Click Icicle Plot header to expand/collapse whole levels of clustering hierarchy

Valid data:
1. The first line in a data file must contain attribute names separated by semicolon
2. The second line contains the data types of the attributes also separated by semicolon
    (only "String", "Real", "Integer", "Category", and "Date" are valid)
3. The rest of the lines contains the actual data
4. Note that a temporal reference is only recognized if "Date" is the first attribute in the file

Example:

CAR;MPG;Cylinders;Horsepower;Weight;Acceleration;Year;Origin
String;Integer;Category;Integer;Integer;Real;Integer;Category
CAR1;18;8;130;3504;12;70;A
CAR2;15;8;165;3693;11.5;70;A
CAR3;18;8;150;3436;11;70;A
CAR4;16;8;150;3433;12;70;B
...