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Facetlens : Exposing Trends And Relationships To Support Sensemaking Within Faceted Datasets
Linear facets and pivoting between facets
FacetLens extends previous faceted systems in two ways. First, in addition to more traditional facet types such as single-value, multi-value, and hierarchical, FacetLens implements linear facets. While attribute values are intrinsically categorical, linear facets permit the…
Faceted classification (definition)
In faceted classification systems, the attributes of the items are grouped into multiple orthogonal categories called “facets.” For example, a database of books might have a Year facet to group together publications from the same year, and a Genre facet exposing attribute…
Supporting Multiple Paths To Objects In Information Hierarchies: Faceted Classification, Faceted Search, And Symbolic Links
Faceted classification
We call sites like this, where the link labels residing at the same level of depth in the directed acyclic graph (DAG) correspond to a facet (Wynar, 2000) of information categorization, faceted. Facets are ‘clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive…