Data Exploration across Temporal Contexts - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Data Exploration across Temporal Contexts

Mark Derthick and Steven F. Roth
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '00), pp. 60 - 67, 2000
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Abstract

The ability to quickly explore and compare multiple scenarios is an important component of exploratory data analysis. Yet today's interfaces cannot represent alternative exploration paths as a branching history, forcing the user to recognize conceptual branch points in a linear history. Further, the interface can only show information from one state at a time, forcing the user to use her memory to compare scenarios. Our system includes a tree-structured visualization for navigating across time and scenarios. The visualization also allows browsing the history and selectively undoing/redoing events within a scenario or across scenarios. It uses the AI formalism of contexts to maintain multiple, possibly mutually inconsistent, knowledge base states. Cross-context formulas can be written for explicit scenario comparison, including visualizations of scenario differences.

BibTeX

@conference{Derthick-2000-7962,
author = {Mark Derthick and Steven F. Roth},
title = {Data Exploration across Temporal Contexts},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '00)},
year = {2000},
month = {January},
pages = {60 - 67},
keywords = {Undo, Exploratory Data Analysis, Context},
}
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