Following the Subject-Presentation programming model [1], plots in Argos act like viewports into the data space being investigated and can serve as two-way communication links between Argos and you. You can not only look at a plot but also carry out operations on the data represented by graphical symbols in the plot. The results generated in this way can be in the form of plots again and ready for further graphical manipulation.
| [1] | Loosely speaking, each observation object is represented by one or more icons on the screen. Each icon can represent one or more observation objects. For example, a dot or circle in a scatterplot represents an observation object; a rectangle in a histogram represents a group of observation objects. Applying an operation to an icon is equivalent to applying the operation to the underlying observation object(s); all other icons representing the affected observation objects will reflect the change. See Viewing high dimensional data by painting multiple views in Proceedings of the ECOOP/OOPSLA 1990 Conference by John Alan McDonald, Werner Stuetzle, and Andreas Buja. |