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Within the context of visual data exploration, Linking refers to the process in which user interactions in one display of a multi-display system are applied to some or all other displays. In this same context, brushing consists of the interactive selection of a subset of the displayed data by either dragging the mouse over the data of interest or using a bounding shape to isolate this subset. Together, linked brushing is one of the most powerful interactive tools for doing exploratory data analysis using visualization.
Historical Background
Perhaps the earliest reference to linked brushing was by McDonald [10] as a mechanism for cross-referencing between multiple plots. The term brushing was introduced in 1978 by Newton [11], who defined it as an interactive method for painting a group of points with a square, circular, or polygonal brush. Since then, researchers have expanded on these concepts, as described in the next section.
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Ward, M.O. (2016). Linking and Brushing. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1129-2
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