Information Visualization Design for Multidimensional Data文档.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Information Visualization Design for Multidimensional Data:Integrating the Rank-by-Feature Framework with Hierarchical Clustering Dissertation Defense Human-Computer Interaction Lab Dept. of Computer Science Jinwook Seo Outline Research Problems Clustering Result Visualization in HCE GRID Principles Rank-by-Feature Framework Evaluation Case studies User survey via emails Contributions and Future work * Exploration of Multidimensional Data To understand the story that the data tells To find features in the data set To generate hypotheses Lost in multidimensional space Tools and techniques are available in many areas Strategy and interface to organize them to guide discovery * Constrained by Conventions Multidimensional Data Statistical Methods Data Mining Algorithms User/Researcher Conventional Tools * Boosting Information Bandwidth Multidimensional Data Statistical Methods Data Mining Algorithms Information Visualization Interfaces User/Researcher * Contributions Graphics, Ranking, and Interaction for Discovery (GRID) principles Rank-by-Feature Framework The design and implementation of the Hierarchical Clustering Explorer (HCE) Validation through case studies and user surveys * Hierarchical Clustering Explorer:Understanding Clusters Through Interactive Exploration Overview of the entire clustering results ? compressed overview The right number of clusters ? minimum similarity bar Overall pattern of each cluster (aggregation)  ? detail cutoff bar Compare two results ? brushing and linking using pair-tree * HCE History Document-View Architecture 72,274 lines of C++ codes, 76 C++ classes About 2,500 downloads since April 2002 Commercial license to a biotech company () Freely downloadable at /hcil/hce * Goal: Find Interesting Features in Multidimensional Data Finding clusters, outliers, correlations, gaps, … is difficult in multidimensional data Cognitive difficulties