Constructing Parallel Coordinates Plot for Problem Solving

The paper reports about authors’ investigation of applicability of a well-known technique of visualization of multivariate data, parallel coordinates plot, to different kinds of tasks. Some new methods of transformation of parallel coordinates plots are suggested. However, the primary aim of the authors is “to link tools to tasks”, i.e. to explicitly define the tasks that can be appropriately supported by this technique and to find what of the possible transformations of parallel coordinates plot are useful for each of the tasks.