Live scatterplots

Abstract

Scatterplots have been used to help understand clone relationships in large scale systems since the earliest large system studies more than a decade ago. They often expose interesting patterns of cloning between subsystems and point to opportunities for further analysis. However, the remaining question when such patterns are seen is always, "but what is that?" Live scatterplots are aimed at providing an immediate, intuitive answer that can help the analyst to quickly identify and access subsystems and clones involved in a pattern simply by directly pointing at it in the scatterplot. Live scatterplots exploit the table, title and hyperlink tags of standard HTML to provide this ability in any standard browser, without the need for custom frameworks.