Argos User Manual

Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 The Chi-Square Works, Inc.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

What is Argos?
Bug Submission
Acknowledgments and Credits

2. Using Argos

A Quick Tour

Getting Help

Context Help

Mental Model for Viewports

Using the Mouse

Understanding the Cursor Forms

Widget Names

About Menus/Dialogs

OS-Specific Notes

Linux
Windows

Introduction
Data Input
Data Output

4. Consoles

Introduction
Primary Console
Temporary Console

5. Scenegraph

Introduction
Nodes
Right Click Menus

6. Paint Palette

7. Graphical Auditing

Introduction

Turn on Auditing

Turn off Auditing

Play an Audit

Right-Click Menu over Audit Player

Save and Delete Audits

8. Workspace

9. Viewport Modes

Introduction

Right Click Menu

Supporting Functions
Keyboard Accelerator

Supporting Functions

Identify Mode

Supporting Functions

Data Retrieval Mode

Supporting Functions

Boxplot Mode

Supporting Functions

Parallel Coordinate Plot Mode

Supporting Functions

Trellis Display Mode

Supporting Functions

Linear Regression Mode

Supporting Functions

10. Drawing Styles

Introduction
Color Drawing Style
Size Drawing Style
Shape Drawing Style

11. Visualization Tools

Introduction

2D Histogram

Scatterplot

Parallel Coordinate Plot

Trellis Display

Introduction
Makings of a Trellis Display
UI for Generating a Trellis Display

12. Analytical Tools

Introduction
Linear Regression

13. Housekeeping Functions

14. Preferences

List of Figures
2-1. A modal menu
2-2. A non-modal Dialog
2-3. Yet another non-modal dialog
3-1. A general matrix loading dialog when there are 100 or less columns.
3-2. A general matrix loading dialog when there are more than 100 columns.
4-1. Primary console, no data loaded yet.
4-2. Primary console, data loaded
4-3. Temporary console
5-1. Scenegraph
5-2. After invoking Hide All on "Histogram 2"
5-3. After invoking Hide on "Histogram 2"
5-4. After invoking Show All on "Histogram 2"
6-1. Floating paint palette
7-1. All nodes in the audited branch are printed in red.
7-2. Audit player
7-3. Audit player
9-1. A scatterplot with 4 modes
9-2. A right-click menu from a scatterplot in Paint mode
9-3. A right-click menu from a scatterplot in Zoom mode
9-4. Source Viewport
9-5. Geometric zooming vs. logical zooming
9-6. A viewport aimed at by two zoom lenses
9-7. Oculars
9-8. The viewport after the ocular with green objective rim was zapped
9-9. Moving objective target area
9-10. Reshaping objective target area
9-11. A dialog for selecting variables to list
9-12. A dialog showing 7 percentile statistics of a box graph
9-13. Right before the left mouse button is released
9-14. A Find Similar dialog
9-15. A Color Find Similar dialog
9-16. Find Similar in Ranges dialogs
9-17. Find in Ranges dialogs
9-18. A stretched parallel coordinate plot
9-19. Displaying PCP's in grayscale
9-20. A trellis display of sum-difference plots with 12 equal-count conditioning intervals
11-1. 2D histogram
11-2. Boxplot
11-3. Scatterplot
11-4. Table plot
11-5. Histogram
11-6. Barplot
11-7. A horizontal barplot
11-8. Pie Chart
11-9. Parallel Coordinate Plot
11-10. A stretched parallel coordinate plot
11-11. Spin: 3D point cloud rotation
11-12. A trellis display of sum-difference plots
11-13.
11-14. List view
11-15. Rows ordered from top to bottom in increasing values of Nucleus Area
11-16. Rows ordered from top to bottom in decreasing values of Nucleus Area
12-1. Linear Regression
13-1. A barplot with long tic labels overlapping each others
13-2. A pie chart with some long tic labels partially displayed
13-3. A dialog for abbreviating category names
13-4. A barplot with abbreviated category names as tic labels
13-5. A pie chart with abbreviated category names as tic labels
13-6. Color distribution animator
13-7. Animating red profiles
13-8. A DNA profile plot of 19,276 cells
13-9. A list showing the mapping between integer codes and variables.
13-10. A dialog for picking a background color
13-11. Plot selection menu
13-12. A slider dialog to set number of bins in a histogram

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