Exploratory Analysis and Implications for Modeling

ions, usually aggregations, are fundamental in exploratory analysis. Finding suitable abstractions, relating them, and conducting both high-level exploratory analysis and appropriate zooming into detail are greatly facilitated if models are designed in a special way. This is the subject of multiresolution, multiperspective modeling (MRMPM). Although the subject relates most directly to new models, it is also relevant to working with legacy models in preparing for exploratory analysis. Multiresolution modeling (MRM) is building a single model, a family of models, or both to describe the same phenomena at different levels of resolution and to allow users to input parameters at those dif-