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| This Heat Matrix shows sales data for a chain of retail stores, grouped by store type. Click on the image to see this Heat Matrix in detail. |
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| Heat Matrix showing foreign exchange cross rates. Click on the Heat Matrix to see the image in more detail. |
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| This Heat Matrix displays market risk data for a financial services application. Click on the image to see the Heat Matrix in more detail. |
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| Heat Matrix of a Swaption Volatility Curve for a financial services application. Click on the image to see the Heat Matrix in detail. |
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A Heat Matrix is a special type of Heatmap data visualization. It is an excellent choice if your data items can be categorized into multiple groupings (for example, By Region and By Product), and you want to understand the correlation between these groupings.
 A Heat Matrix is similar to a Heat Map or a Treemap in that it displays many different data items and it can represent the value for each item using colors. However, unlike Heatmap or a Treemap, the Heat Matrix has a defined structure where two data attributes define each data item, thus producing a matrix. Within the Heat Matrix, each column and row represents a unique attribute, and the point where two items intersect represents a unique combination of the two attributes.
Our Heat Matrix data visualization helps our clients analyze large data matrices using an intuitive graphical display.
In a Heat Matrix, each point is represented as an equally sized box, with the value of the item represented by color. The user can alter the color scale as needed to make it easier to see outliers and trends. By contrast to a Heatmap which re-tessellates when resized, the location of each item in the Heat Matrix is fixed and that location in itself conveys useful information, since the location has defined horizontal and vertical coordinates and will not change, regardless of how the Heat Matrix is resized.
Many Applications for Heat Matrix Visualizations
The Heat Matrix visualization is useful in a large number of industries. It is commonly used in financial services applications to look at Foreign Exchange Cross Rates, Swaption Volatility Surfaces and Market Risk. A typical corporate application is to look at sales revenue and/or profitability across regions and product lines.
Use Flags to Highlight Problems & Opportunities
Users can also turn on flags in the Heat Matrix that highlight interesting items like "Top 10" or "Worst 10".
Connect Heat Matrix Data Visualizations to Other Systems
Panopticon's Heat Matrix visualizations are designed to be connected to other systems. You can program the system so that a single mouse click will launch another program. This can be as simple as invoking a web browser to jump to a specific website containing more information about the item, or something more complicated like initiating a purchase order or a shipping change in a supply chain management system.
Heat Matrix Availability
Heat Matrix tools are included as a standard visualization in all of our
products, including our Windows desktop product,
our web-deployed Enterprise solution and our SDK.
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