STARS Tutorials in Quicktime

These short tutorials illustrate a selection of the key operations in STARS. They are organized into three different categories of functionality:

Visualization, Views, and View Interactions

Data

More sections and tutorials will be added on a regular basis, so please check back frequently.

To view these tutorials you will need to have the free QuickTime plug-in enabled in your browser.

Directions: It is suggested that you view them in the sequence listed, as the later movies make reference to concepts presented in earlier movies.

Using the bottom bar of the quicktime movie screen, all movies can be stopped, paused, and replayed. If you are having trouble with the initial synchronization of image and sound just after clicking the movie link, just stop the movie after a few second and replay it. You should also note that any video distortion in a movie will not be seen when using STARS but is an artifact of the recording.

When finished viewing a tutorial use your browswer's back button to return to the index.

Getting Started and Oriented
Starting	Staring STARS from an Aqua terminal under Mac OS X to run Aqua-Tk version of STARS.
Navigation	Moving between different statistical/geographical views and the main STARS application window.

Visualization, Views, and View Interactions
Linking	Highlighting selected observations on an origin view across different types of statistical and geographical views.
Brushing	Conditioning destination view on the deletion of observations selected on an origin view.
Spatial Traveling	Animation of a spatial view to travel through variable space and trigger linking/brushing with destination views. Used to identify spatial instabilities of global processes.
Time Traveling	Animation of a temporal view to travel through variable space over time and trigger linking/brushing with destination views. Used to idenfity temporal instabilities in spatial and other processes.
Printing and Saving Views	You can save any view to an encapsulated postscript file (EPS) and then either import this graphic into a LaTeX or word processing document, or send it directly to a printer.

Data
Creating a STARS Project Part 1	Demonstrates use of the ProjectMaker application to initialize a STARS project.
Creating a STARS Project Part 2	Demonstrates use of the ProjectMaker application to import data into the project you created in Part I.
Opening your project in STARS.	Open your newly created project in STARS to explore your data.

STARS Tutorials in Quicktime

Getting Started and Oriented

Visualization, Views, and View Interactions

Data

Getting Started and Oriented

Visualization, Views, and View Interactions

Data