Dynamic graphics for research and teaching, with applications in the life sciences

Abstract

Our ability to record increasingly larger and more complex sets of data is accompanied by a decline in our capacity to interpret and understand these data in the fullest sense. Multivariate analysis partially assists us in our quest by reducing the dimensionality in optimal ways, but our view is stuck in two dimensions because of the planar nature of the graphical medium, be it the printed page or the computer screen.