FacetLens is a follow-on interface to prior work on FacetMap and PaperLens. FacetLens is an appropriate visualization tool for nearly any item/attribute based dataset expressed as a SQL database. Provided with a description of the types and locations of item metadata, FacetLens dynamically generates SQL queries to probe the data distributions and present them to the user in a data-rich, animated way. The user can  interactively click on values to apply filter criteria, and can use drag/drop operations to explore trends. FacetLens scales up to any size display by revealing progressively more detail as space grows.

FacetLens Video for InfoVis [.mov (275MB)]