Journal
INFORMATION VISUALIZATION
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 251-267Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1473871618806555
Keywords
Exploratory analysis; user interfaces; proactive visualization; visual insights
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- US National Science Foundation [IIS-1539534]
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Effective data analysis ideally requires the analyst to have high expertise as well as high knowledge of the data. Even with such familiarity, manually pursuing all potential hypotheses and exploring all possible views is impractical. We present DataSite, a proactive visual analytics system where the burden of selecting and executing appropriate computations is shared by an automatic server-side computation engine. Salient features identified by these automatic background processes are surfaced as notifications in a feed timeline. DataSite effectively turns data analysis into a conversation between analyst and computer, thereby reducing the cognitive load and domain knowledge requirements. We validate the system with a user study comparing it to a recent visualization recommendation system, yielding significant improvement, particularly for complex analyses that existing analytics systems do not support well.
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