Theme Mountain: a SVG-based Visual Data Mining Tool

To see is to know. When you understand what you see, then you can trust what you are seeing. In this paper we present ThemeMountain, an SVG-based Visual Data Mining tool. ThemeMountain is inspired by ThemeRiver [Hav02], a tool that identifies sequential patterns, trends and temporal relationships within large collections of documents and analyzes them over time. A collection of documents or other data could be displayed as a river or a ribbon made of different colours that flows across a period of time. Within the river, colour-coded currents identify widening or narrowing themes according with their relative strength.