Correlation Pursuit Selecting this button generates a window in which a projection pursuit index for the current two dimensional view of the data is plotted. As the correlation tour progresses the index is plotted continuously. The value is also displayed directly beneath this button. Selecting this button also turns on the "Sphere" button and spheres the data by sphering each of the two sets of variables. For the one index currently available sphering is not necessary. When "Optimz" is selected, the correlation tour is guided by the gradient of the coreelation pursuit index, so that XGobi begins to search for views with high index values. Hopefully these views will expose interesting features of the data. When a maximum value of the index is reached the tour may turn itself off (this occurs when the gradients are all close to zero, meaning we have gone as far as possible in this direction to capture a maximum, and it is not possible to find any better direction). To restart the correlation tour turn "Optimz" off. The only index currently available is the correlation between the two projections (horizontal and vertical) displayed.