So, I'm working on tools (in 'R', my faaaavorite visualization environment) to help me understand the impact of a new collocation-group calculation tool. I'm reaching for some concise visual idiom which will help me see trouble spots.
What I've arrived at so far is a column for each volume, with the left hand side illustrating collocation-group occupation on the volume, and the right hand side illustrating node occupation. http://docs.osg.ufl.edu/tsm/pdf/ctrl.pdf This method has some limitations (*koff*) http://docs.osg.ufl.edu/tsm/pdf/erp.pdf but I think I can make that graph somewhat more clear by excluding from consideration the "Obviously good" volumes; defined as those which are totally occupied by either one node, or one collocation group. But I'm looking for inspiration on how to visualize "A volume", and "A collocation group". It seems to me that those are the most productive perspectives: If you find "A group" with a lot of intrusion, that suggests a place to start fixing. If you find "A volume" with many groups/nodes, that's a good candidate for twiddling. Any ideas? I considered trying to come up with cute little tape outlines, and using the tape outlines to crop pie-charts populated by-group and by-node, but I was afraid that Edward Tufte would come to my house and kick me really really hard. - Allen S. Rout
