Loon – the interactive R visualization toolkit for exploration

The power and extendibility of loon will be demonstrated with new tools for exploring data interactively. These include graph-based exploration of low dimensional spaces, interactive parallel and radial axes displays and glyphs, and interactive maps for geographic spatial data. Loon complements and supports statistical exploration: of data, of models, even of methods. The principal example will be visual clustering and exploration of high dimensional data. An exceedingly brief demonstration of the ease with which loon may be adapted to serve almost any visual exploration will also be given.