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In order to test the applicability and generic nature of the package, it was thoroughly<br />

examined on various different Case Studies. The package constructs dynamic<br />

barplots, histograms and scatterplots, among others. Figure 6-10 demonstrates the<br />

most commonly applied visual aid for the outcome of hierarchical cluster analysis<br />

(HCA) – the dendrogram – as generated directly by the iWebPlots package. The lines<br />

connecting the nodes in the dendrogram represent the distance (the degree of<br />

dissimilarity) between the leaves or clusters. In this instance, the HCA algorithm has<br />

been applied on the PCA scores of the HPLC dataset for case study 1. Similar to the<br />

PCA score plots of Section 2.3.1, it can be concluded from the figure that mainly<br />

spoiled and fresh samples present good clustering, whereas semi-fresh samples are<br />

usually grouped with either one of the two. The leaves of the cluster are all<br />

interactive, while they can be easily coloured upon the user’s request.<br />

The web pages offer fully interactive plots and data tables with dynamic and<br />

asynchronous features (Figure 6-11) as described in Section 6.2.5. The users can<br />

interact with each point in the plot, which automatically filters the corresponding<br />

entry in the data table, whereas rollover and click upon events display dynamic<br />

tooltips with associated metadata. In addition, the users can highlight one, multiple or<br />

all available classification groups (fresh, semi-fresh, spoiled). Furthermore, the<br />

samples’ names can be dynamically enabled or disabled in the plots, whereas the<br />

users can alternate between two-dimensional and three-dimensional plots as easily.<br />

The scaling of the data and the axes can be altered at any time asynchronously<br />

without reloading the whole page. Finally, the users can view the spectroscopic data<br />

on the web interface upon demand.<br />

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