MANET

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A brief summary of MANET features

MANET basics

Plots in MANET

First Interactive Implementations of

New Interactive Features

Ongoing Research includes

Odds & Ends

Ongoing research includes

• Index Window

  Index windows have been introduced first in Diamond Fast. They form a virtual display of the screen, showing all windows on the screen, except the Index Window itself. Every window is represented by a grey box, with an additional icon in the upper left corner, showing the type of plot inside the window. Every window inside the Index Window can be moved around. After dropping a window at a new place of the screen, this window will be popped up, to be the front most of all windows. This enables the user to tidy up and place windows easily. The Index Window is also used to define the sibling structure of groups. The right example shows the three windows of the Selection Sequence example above. In addition to the index window, the so-called catwalk enables the user to place the graphics on to up to four virtual screens - represented by the 4 Roman numerals at the top. This is very helpful when working with more than one dataset at a time. The analysis of different datasets or of different aspects of one dataset can be carried out on distinct virtual screens more clearly. Related concepts can be found in SUN's olvwm.

• Overlaying of different plots

  Overlaying of plots is often used in GIS systems. Since MANET can plot polygon plots as well as scatterplots, it is desireable to overlay these kinds of plots. In time-series-analysis the overlaying of different time-series of different scales and origin can be very helpful. The overlaying of plots in MANET is experimental at the moment. What we can donow is to overlay any plot in one window. The plots are stacked in the layer window, but all keep their whole functionality. Some unsolved questions include: Should only the topmost window be active? How to align the x-axis and/or y-axis of plots? If the plots come from different datasets: How to link the data, if it is related? ... Stay tuned!

• Managing & colouring groups

  A data analysis package should guarantee a consistent treatment of colours for areal plots as well as point plots. MANET allows the assignment of two colours using the colour palette:

  	Assign red colour to the selected points	The current assignment and highlighting number of a dataset can be monitored within the groups-window
  	Assign blue colour to the selected points
  	Not assignable colour of intersection
  	Clear all colours

  Colouring of points is offered by nearly every package. But no package offers the colouring of areal plots - which is not less useful. In MANET we implemeted a first suggestion, which does not seem to be a final solution to that problem. Suggestions and remarks are welcome!