Visual momentum: a concept to improve the cognitive coupling of person and computer
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Envisioning information
Polaris: A System for Query, Analysis, and Visualization of Multidimensional Relational Databases
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Discovery-Driven Exploration of OLAP Data Cubes
EDBT '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation
INFOVIS '02 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis'02)
Interestingness measures for data mining: A survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
View Discovery in OLAP Databases through Statistical Combinatorial Optimization
SSDBM 2009 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
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Software tools for visualizing very large multidimensional databases have become increasingly important to discover interesting relationships among variables. While current tools implement operations such as drilling down, rolling up, and slicing data tables to help users notice interesting features of the data, the onus is on the user to choose the dimensions for drill down, or other operations. Expert knowledge is required to do this effectively and, since many users are novices, incorrect choices often lead to dead-ends, backtracking, confusion, and frustration. We suggest a novel approach to the selection of dimensions that relies on the interactive presentation of small multiples of thumbnail visualizations, before performing drill down or roll up operations. These previews of distributions, relationships, and associations, before variable selection, compel visual comparisons of change and difference, thus highlighting the options that are most likely to lead to productive paths.