While many data sets contain multiple relationships, depicting more than one relationship within a single visualization is challenging. We introduce Bubble Sets as technique for that has both primary relation with semantically significant spatial organization and set membership in which members of the same are not necessarily adjacent layout. In order to maintain rights relation, we avoid layout adjustment techniques improve cluster continuity density. Instead, use continuous, possibly...

Do court cases differ from place to place? What kind of picture do we get by looking at a country's collection law cases? We introduce parallel tag clouds: new way visualize differences amongst facets very large metadata-rich text corpora. have pointed clouds over 600,000 US Circuit Court decisions spanning period 50 years and discovered regional as well linguistic between courts. The visualization technique combines graphical elements coordinates traditional provide rich overviews document...

We present VisLink, a method by which visualizations and the relationships between them can be interactively explored. VisLink readily generalizes to support multiple visualizations, empowers inter-representational queries, enables reuse of spatial variables, thus supporting efficient information encoding providing for powerful visualization bridging. Our approach uses 2D layouts, drawing each one in its own plane. These planes then placed re-positioned 3D space: side side, parallel, or...

We present FluxFlow, an interactive visual analysis system for revealing and analyzing anomalous information spreading in social media. Everyday, millions of messages are created, commented, shared by people on media websites, such as Twitter Facebook. This provides valuable data researchers practitioners many application domains, marketing, to inform decision-making. Distilling signals from the huge crowd's messages, however, is challenging, due heterogeneous dynamic crowd behaviors. The...

In common Web-based search interfaces, it can be difficult to formulate queries that simultaneously combine temporal, spatial, and topical data filters. We investigate how coordinated visualizations enhance exploration of information on the World Wide Web by easing formulation these types queries. Drawing from visual seeking exploratory search, we introduce VisGets--interactive query operate with online within a browser. VisGets provide seeker overviews resources offer way visually filter...

We present the first framework for segmentation, semantic classification, and generalization of passwords a model that captures essence password samples. Researchers have only touched surface patterns in creation, with semantics remaining largely unexplored, leaving gap our understanding their characteristics and, consequently, security. In this paper, we begin to fill by employing Natural Language Processing techniques extract leverage passwords. The results investigation demonstrate...

Abstract Textual data is at the forefront of information management problems today. One response has been development visualizations text data. These visualizations, commonly based on simple attributes such as relative word frequency, have become increasingly popular tools. We extend this direction, presenting first visualization document content which combines frequency with human‐created structure in lexical databases to create a that also reflects semantic content. DocuBurst radial,...

As information visualization is increasingly used to raise awareness about social issues, difficult questions arise the power of visualization. So far research community has not given sufficient thought how values and assumptions pervade Taking engaging visualizations as a starting point, we outline critical approach that promotes disclosure, plurality, contingency, empowerment. Based on this approach, pose some challenges opportunities for researchers practitioners.

Visual text analytics has recently emerged as one of the most prominent topics in both academic research and commercial world. To provide an overview relevant techniques analysis tasks, well relationships between them, we comprehensively analyzed 263 visualization papers 4,346 mining published 1992-2017 two fields: mining. From analysis, derived around 300 concepts (visualization techniques, tasks) built a taxonomy for each type concept. The co-occurrence were also extracted. Our can be used...

A universal infrastructural issue is wetting of surfaces; millions dollars are invested annually for rehabilitation and maintenance infrastructures including roadways buildings to fix the damages caused by moisture frost. The biomimicry lotus leaf can provide superhydrophobic surfaces that repel water droplets, thus reducing penetration moisture, which linked with many deterioration mechanisms in infrastructures, such as steel corrosion, sulfate attack, alkali-aggregate reactions, freezing...

We introduce grounded evaluation as a process that attempts to ensure the of an information visualization tool is situated within context its intended use. discuss and scope in general, then describe how qualitative inquiry may be beneficial approach part this process. advocate for increased attention field early development life cycle, it tries achieve richer understanding by using more holistic considering interplay between factors influence visualizations, their development, present three...

Many datasets, such as scientific literature collections, contain multiple heterogeneous facets which derive implicit relations, well explicit relational references between data items. The exploration of this is challenging not only because large scales but also the complexity resource structures and semantics. In paper, we present PivotSlice, an interactive visualization technique provides efficient faceted browsing flexible capabilities to discover relationships. With metaphor direct...

In this paper, we list the goals for and pros cons of guidance, discuss role that it can play not only in key low-level visualization tasks but also more sophisticated model-generation visual analytics. Recent advances artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, have led to high hopes regarding possibilities using automatic techniques perform some are currently done manually by data analysts. However, analytics remains a complex activity, combining many different subtasks. Some...

Abstract We introduce a novel visual analytics approach to analyze speaker behavior patterns in multi‐party conversations. propose Topic‐Space Views track the movement of speakers across thematic landscape conversation. Our tool is designed assist political science scholars exploring dynamics conversation over time generate and prove hypotheses about interactions patterns. Moreover, we glyph‐based representation for each turn based on linguistic statistical cues abstract relevant text...

Topic modeling algorithms are widely used to analyze the thematic composition of text corpora but remain difficult interpret and adjust. Addressing these limitations, we present a modular visual analytics framework, tackling understandability adaptability topic models through user-driven reinforcement learning process which does not require deep understanding underlying algorithms. Given document corpus, our approach initializes two algorithm configurations based on parameter space analysis...

We introduce a new direct manipulation technique, DimpVis, for interacting with visual items in information visualizations to enable exploration of the time dimension. DimpVis is guided by hint paths which indicate how selected data item changes through dimension visualization. Temporal navigation controlled manipulating any along its path. All other are updated reflect time. demonstrate technique can be designed directly manipulate position, colour, and size familiar such as bar charts...

We begin an investigation into the semantic patterns underlying user choice in passwords. Understanding provides insight how people choose passwords, which turn can be used to inform usable password policies and guidelines. As are difficult recognize automatically, we visualization aid their discovery. focus on dates designing interactive for detailed analysis, using it explore RockYou dataset of over 32 million Our enabled us analyze many dimensions, including relationship between...

To effectively assess the potential consequences of human interventions in model-driven analytics systems, we establish concept speculative execution as a visual paradigm for creating user-steerable preview mechanisms. This paper presents an explainable, mixed-initiative topic modeling framework that integrates into algorithmic decision-making process. Our approach visualizes model-space our novel incremental hierarchical algorithm, unveiling its inner-workings. We support active...

Abstract We present NEREx, an interactive visual analytics approach for the exploratory analysis of verbatim conversational transcripts. By revealing different perspectives on multi‐party conversations, NEREx gives entry point through high‐level overviews and provides mechanisms to form verify hypotheses linked detail‐views. Using a tailored named‐entity extraction, we abstract important entities into ten categories extract their relations with distance‐restricted entity‐relationship model....

While previous work exists on how to conduct and disseminate insights from problem-driven visualization projects design studies, the literature does not address accomplish these goals in transdisciplinary teams ways that advance all disciplines involved. In this paper we introduce define a new methodological paradigm call by immersion, which provides an alternative perspective work. Design immersion embeds experiences at center of process having researchers participate target domain (or...

During sensemaking, people annotate insights: underlining sentences in a document or circling regions on map. They jot down their hypotheses: drawing correlation lines scatterplots creating personal legends to track patterns. We present ActiveInk, system enabling seamlessly transition between exploring data and externalizing thoughts using pen touch. ActiveInk enables the natural use of for active reading behaviors, while supporting analytic actions by activating any these ink strokes....

A discourse parser is a natural language processing system which can represent the organization of document based on rhetorical structure tree-one key data structures enabling applications such as text summarization, question answering and dialogue generation. Computational linguistics researchers currently rely manually exploring comparing to get intuitions for improving parsing algorithms. In this paper, we present DAViewer, an interactive visualization assisting computational explore,...

For the past two years, researchers from visualization community and digital humanities have come together at IEEE VIS conference to discuss how both disciplines can work push research goals in their respective disciplines. In this paper, we present our experiences as a result of collaboration.

We propose to conduct a workshop on the topic of Immersive Analytics: new multidisciplinary initiative explore future interaction technologies for data analytics. Analytics aims bring together researchers in Information Visualisation, Visual Analytics, Virtual and Augmented Reality Natural User Interfaces. http://immersiveanalytics.net