https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6205-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Dynamical projections for the visualization of PDFSense data
1
School of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia
2
School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia
* e-mail: ursula.laa@monash.edu
Received:
23
July
2018
Accepted:
29
August
2018
Published online:
17
September
2018
A recent paper on visualizing the sensitivity of hadronic experiments to nucleon structure (Wang et al. in arXiv:1803.02777, 2018) introduces the tool PDFSense which defines measures to allow the user to judge the sensitivity of PDF fits to a given experiment. The sensitivity is characterized by high-dimensional data residuals that are visualized in a 3-d subspace of the 10 first principal components or using non-linear embeddings. We show how a tour, a dynamic visualisation of high dimensional data, can extend this tool beyond 3-d relationships. This approach enables resolving structure orthogonal to the 2-d viewing plane used so far, and hence finer tuned assessment of the sensitivity.
© The Author(s), 2018
