Interesting stuff--it's worth mentioning some of the prior visualization work in this area, e.g. Interactive data exporation: http://research.microsoft.com/pub

Interesting stuff--it's worth mentioning some of the prior visualization work in this area, e.g. Interactive data exporation: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/75818/cockburn-ComputingSurveys09.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/75818/cockburn-ComputingS... Distance-based visualization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional_scaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional_scaling