[IxDA Discuss] Need Suggestions for 2-D Display of 3-D Quantitive Data

[Brooke Baldwin]

Todd wrote:

 Brooke, could you give an example of what you're trying to show? And what
data users would be trying to compare?

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I've got lines of data that share many attributes (column headings) and
that each have unique attributes (other column headings). Think of it as a
regular grid, but I've got to put on another layer of parameters (distance
chunks) where the type of distance chunk (column headings) for one line
will vary between two subsets of column headings.

The subsets of column headings for the grid are sort of related. And so
I'm trying to place them one on top (meaning, stacking the unique column
headings) of the other in the header but that layout implies a strict
relationship between the two that's false. There are indicators along the
vertical access that let the user know what column header is the right
reference.

I'm just not sure this is really the best way to do things.

The design is constrained by a small amount of screen space (and we'll
still have horizontal scrolling) AND that we can't aren't introducing
graphical treatments.

Clear as mud?
Thanks
brooke