Related but not quite the same thing: because of the general inability to visualize or see things beyond 3D (and usually only 2D because making 3D graphs is a pain, especially in print), we resort to various tricks to examine high dimensional data in lower dimensions. This includes making multiple 2D, two-variable plots comparing only the interactions of pairs out of larger set of variables (obviously we lose out on more complicated relationship that way), and projecting higher dimensional stuff onto lower dimensions (PCA being often used to do this). Probably other techniques too, but the two above are quite common.
This tutorial does a good job describing the general idea of the above paragraph plus the two techniques described.
Arguably these are external tools which are being used to get around the limitations of human visualization/working memory capacity, tools which are more powerful than just having paper store plain information for you. These are much worse than if you could see in higher dimensions, but they’re better than nothing.
Possibly there are generalizations to these kinds of techniques which could work for more general working-memory constraints? Probably they’re not researched enough.
Related but not quite the same thing: because of the general inability to visualize or see things beyond 3D (and usually only 2D because making 3D graphs is a pain, especially in print), we resort to various tricks to examine high dimensional data in lower dimensions. This includes making multiple 2D, two-variable plots comparing only the interactions of pairs out of larger set of variables (obviously we lose out on more complicated relationship that way), and projecting higher dimensional stuff onto lower dimensions (PCA being often used to do this). Probably other techniques too, but the two above are quite common.
This tutorial does a good job describing the general idea of the above paragraph plus the two techniques described.
Arguably these are external tools which are being used to get around the limitations of human visualization/working memory capacity, tools which are more powerful than just having paper store plain information for you. These are much worse than if you could see in higher dimensions, but they’re better than nothing.
Possibly there are generalizations to these kinds of techniques which could work for more general working-memory constraints? Probably they’re not researched enough.