RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Hybrid Unsupervised Exploratory Plots: A Case Study of Analysing Foreign Direct Investment A1 Herrero Cosío, Álvaro A1 Jiménez, Alfredo A1 Bayraktar, Secil K1 Informática K1 Computer science AB The curse of dimensionality has been an open issue for many years and still is, as finding nonobvious and previously unknown patterns in ever-increasing amounts of high-dimensional data is not an easy task. Advancing in descriptive data analysis, the present paper proposes Hybrid Unsupervised Exploratory Plots (HUEPs) as a new visualization technique to combine the outputs of Exploratory Projection Pursuit and Clustering methods in a novel and informative way. As a case study, HUEPs are validated in a real-world context for analysing the internationalization strategy of companies, by taking into account bilateral distance between home and host countries. As a multifaceted concept, distance encompasses multiple dimensions. Together with data from both the countries and the companies, various psychic distances are analysed by means of HUEPs, to gain deep knowledge of the internationalization strategy of large Spanish companies. Informative visualizations are obtained from the analysed dataset, leading to useful business implications and decision making. PB Hindawi SN 1076-2787 YR 2019 FD 2019-06 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7258 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7258 LA eng NO The work was conducted during Álvaro Herrero’s research stay at KEDGE Business School in Bordeaux (France). Some results of this ongoing research, from the same dataset, have been presented in the 13th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, as a paper entitled “Visualizing Industrial Development Distance to Better Understand Internationalization of Spanish Companies”. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 23-nov-2024