Object & Relation Properties

Objects are placeholders corresponding to, for example, a country, market, industry, company, financial instrument, individual, or place. They are populated with data “about” the chosen object (e.g. for a country object such as Canada, there might be data for GDP growth per year or population size). Objects are represented as models (spheres, flags, factories, etc.) in the space that moves when animated.

Relations connect two objects as a line in the 3D space to indicate a relation between the two objects; maps relations between entities (correlation, covariance, foreign exchange rates, industry exports/imports, etc.). Data associated with the relations between objects can be assigned to these relations.

Objects and relations have similar appearance settings: lables, image, color, and shape. They are outlined in the next sections.