Integrating Statistics and Visualization for Exploratory Power: From Long-Term Case Studies to Design Guidelines

  • Authors:
  • Adam Perer;Ben Shneiderman

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM;University of Maryland

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Evaluating visual-analytics systems is challenging because laboratory-based controlled experiments might not effectively represent analytical tasks. One such system, SocialAction, integrates statistics and visualization in an interactive exploratory tool for social network analysis. This article describes results from long-term case studies with domain experts and extends established design goals for information visualization.