This invention is a data processing/visualization method which includes
the software development and operation to apply to any multi-dimensional
separation. The GC-MS analysis of diesel is an example to demonstrate
this software development and operation. The steps of this method
includes (1) displaying the total ion chromatogram obtained from a GC-MS
experiment, (2) displaying each mass spectrum versus retention time, (3)
selecting a normal paraffin family as the reference compound family for
relative polarity display, (4) transforming every mass slice to line-up
normal paraffin compound family in the same relative retention time
(position), (5) rotating the axis to best display the two (multi)
dimensional data.