Parallel Coordinates

A Parallel Coordinates

plot renders several columns together. Each column is represented using a vertical axis. Each data point is a polyline connecting to the axes. The location where a polyline intersects an axis correspond to the attribute value of the data item on that column.

Example

parallel coordinates

A parallel coordinates plot showing seven columns from the cars table. The lines are color encoded by the origin countries of the cars.

Selection

Draw a stroke in the parallel coordinates to select data items of which the polylines intersect the stroke.

Visual Properties

Type Effect
color Color of the polyline
border Not supported
size Not supported
width Width of the polyline
opacity Opacity of the polyline

Options

Columns

Configures which columns to display in the parallel coordinates. The axes for the columns are shown from left to right.

Axis Margin

Uses 10% of margin on the top and bottom of all axes.

Use Dataset Range

Sets the domains of the axes to always equal to the value ranges of the entire dataset, rather than the value ranges of the subset received by the parallel coordinates.