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The Effects Of Mixed-Initiative Visualization Systems On Exploratory Data Analysis, Adam Kern
The Effects Of Mixed-Initiative Visualization Systems On Exploratory Data Analysis, Adam Kern
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
The main purpose of information visualization is to act as a window between a user and data. Historically, this has been accomplished via a single-agent framework: the only decisionmaker in the relationship between visualization system and analyst is the analyst herself. Yet this framework arose not from first principles, but from necessity: prior to this decade, computers were limited in their decision-making capabilities, especially in the face of large, complex datasets and visualization systems. This thesis aims to present the design and evaluation of a mixed-initiative system that aids the user in handling large, complex datasets and dense visualization systems. …