smatter / i2pi.com (c) Joshua Reich 2008 ABOUT Smatter is a small visual exploratory data analysis (VEDA) tool. It's primary mode of visualization is the scatter-plot matrix. A scatter plot matrix, or scatter matrix is a N x N display of scatter plots, where N is the number of variables being examined. In each cell (i,j) of the matrix, the plot displays a chart of of i versus j. In the main diagonal the name of each variable is shown. Smatter is designed to allow very quick inspection of possibly very large data sets. While development is not yet complete, the goal is to support files much larger than available RAM in the machine. In VEDA it is essential to take a new data set and quickly get a sense of what is going on. As such, the primary motivation for designing to tool is to remove all barriers from exploring new and large data sets. We try to acheive this with an uncluttered display and navigating the system primarily though keyboard short-cuts. THANKS The CSV parsing routines come from libmba-0.9.1 - Thanks Michael B Allen! http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/ USAGE Smatter reads data from well formed CSV files and is invoked from the command line simply as: smatter path/to/data.csv From here we enter a land of keyboard shortcuts. NAVIGATION TRANSFORMS