Figure 2.
A 2-D cartographic color scheme is applied to a Self-Organizing Map (after Kohonen (2001)), the result is displayed in the SOM component (middle). A circular node in the SOM component represents a cluster, the multivariate characteristics of which are depicted in a PCP (i.e., the red node is depicted by the PCP at right-upper corner). Similar clusters (thus the nodes) are assigned similar colors and different clusters are assigned distinct colors. A node’s size is proportional to the amount of data items contained in the cluster.