Linked Views

linked highlighting/brushing/
extremely powerful technique

Brushing Scatterplots, Becker and Cleveland, Technometrics 1987 vol 29, pp 127-142

coordinated views
linked navigation

CMV: International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization 

example: Exploratory Data Visualizer
Visual Exploration of Large Structured Databases, Graham J. Wills, in New Techniques and Trends in Statitics, pp 237-246, IOS Press 1995.

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