{"title":"Foundations for an Applied Science of Data Visualization","authors":"C. Ware","doi":"10.1016/B978-0-12-381464-7.00001-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-381464-7.00001-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50360,"journal":{"name":"Information Visualization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/B978-0-12-381464-7.00001-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54062494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manuela Waldner, Thomas Geymayer, D. Schmalstieg, M. Sedlmair
{"title":"Linking unstructured evidence to structured observations","authors":"Manuela Waldner, Thomas Geymayer, D. Schmalstieg, M. Sedlmair","doi":"10.1177/1473871620986249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871620986249","url":null,"abstract":"Many professionals, like journalists, writers, or consultants, need to acquire information from various sources, make sense of this unstructured evidence, structure their observations, and finally create and deliver their product, such as a report or a presentation. In formative interviews, we found that tools allowing structuring of observations are often disconnected from the corresponding evidence. Therefore, we designed a sensemaking environment with a flexible observation graph that visually ties together evidence in unstructured documents with the user’s structured knowledge. This is achieved through bi-directional deep links between highlighted document portions and nodes in the observation graph. In a controlled study, we compared users’ sensemaking strategies using either the observation graph or a simple text editor on a large display. Results show that the observation graph represents a holistic, compact representation of users’ observations, which can be linked to unstructured evidence on demand. In contrast, users taking textual notes required much more display space to spatially organize source documents containing unstructured evidence. This implies that spatial organization is a powerful strategy to structure observations even if the available space is limited.","PeriodicalId":50360,"journal":{"name":"Information Visualization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473871620986249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49622038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Environment, Optics, Resolution, and the Display","authors":"C. Ware","doi":"10.1016/B978-0-12-381464-7.00002-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-381464-7.00002-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50360,"journal":{"name":"Information Visualization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/B978-0-12-381464-7.00002-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54062515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haili Zhang, Pu Wang, Xuejin Gao, Yongsheng Qi, Huihui Gao
{"title":"Out-of-sample data visualization using bi-kernel t-SNE","authors":"Haili Zhang, Pu Wang, Xuejin Gao, Yongsheng Qi, Huihui Gao","doi":"10.1177/1473871620978209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1473871620978209","url":null,"abstract":"T-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) is an effective visualization method. However, it is non-parametric and cannot be applied to steaming data or online scenarios. Although kernel t-SNE provides an explicit projection from a high-dimensional data space to a low-dimensional feature space, some outliers are not well projected. In this paper, bi-kernel t-SNE is proposed for out-of-sample data visualization. Gaussian kernel matrices of the input and feature spaces are used to approximate the explicit projection. Then principal component analysis is applied to reduce the dimensionality of the feature kernel matrix. Thus, the difference between inliers and outliers is revealed. And any new sample can be well mapped. The performance of the proposed method for out-of-sample projection is tested on several benchmark datasets by comparing it with other state-of-the-art algorithms.","PeriodicalId":50360,"journal":{"name":"Information Visualization","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1473871620978209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44612425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}