Limn. The Limn project focuses on developing tools for creating animations and interacting with them for visualizing large, multi-dimensional data.
The objective is to scale up the successful multiple views paradigm from the current technological limit of about 1 million cases to arbitrary amounts of data, using advancements in video technology. Visualization of data is important in any kind of analysis because the eye can detect features that are not easily found by numerical algorithms, such as local departures from a trend, and structure in sparse data. Graphics are also important for important for refining and understanding numerical solutions. Limn. Overview of the Project Limn focuses on tools for interacting with visual renderings of large, multi-dimensional data.
For data, up to about 1 million cases, there exists an extensive body of research and resulting proven methods for interacting with visual renderings. The most successful approach for visualizing multi-dimensional data is called the "multiple views paradigm". Users are presented with multiple renderings, such as a histogram, scatterplot, parallel coordinate plot, or touring plot, and provided with mechanisms for linking the information between them.